Love one another as he loved them

Love . . . one another That seems pretty easy, doesn’t it?   Be nice, take care of the people you’re close to, maybe give some money to the poor.   But is this all that Jesus means?   Or does he have a different idea?   Let’s look at the context of this command to get...

You are a child of God

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father When you were a child, someone may have told you, “You’re the spitting image of your dad.”   Or “Your eyes remind me so much of your mother’s.”   Or maybe you heard “You have your father’s laugh” or “You have your mother’s...

Thank you for the place you have fashioned for me

I am going to prepare a place for you A teenage girl who was the youngest of eight children had waited for years to have a room of her own.   For her sixteenth birthday, her busy mom secretly sewed a beautiful comforter with matching curtains.   When the girl arrived...

Words of Exhortation

If one of you has a word of exhortation for the people, please speak Similar to our celebration of the Mass, Jewish synagogue services in Jesus’ time included readings from the Scriptures followed by a homily.   Usually, the rabbi or one of the elders spoke, but he...

Help me to hear you speaking to me

The Holy Spirit said . . .  A famine had spread across the land, and the Christians in Antioch were concerned about their fellow believers in Jerusalem.   So they raised some money and commissioned Barnabas and Paul to bring it to them (Acts 11:27-30).   Their “relief...

Is there a gap you want me to help fill in?

May another take his office You probably know the story in today’s first reading (Acts 1:20) already.   Jesus had chosen twelve apostles, a way of mirroring and fulfilling the role of the original twelve tribes of Israel.   But when Judas betrayed him and then took...

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