I saw a stranger yesterday. I put food in the eating place, drink in the drinking place, music in the listening place, and in the name of the Triune the stranger blessed me, my house, my cattle and my dear ones. And the lark said in her song: Often, often, often goes the Christ in […]
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Ash Wednesday Prayer Why should I believe in people who don’t do what they say?Remember we are human, and God loves us the way we are.Why should I believe in myself when no one else does?Remember we are human, and God loves us the way we are.Why should I believe in God when there’s so
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If I say ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me and the light around me become night’ even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
O God, it is your will to hold heaven and earth in a single peace. Let the design of your great love shine on the waste of our wraths and sorrows, and from them fashion great peace in your church and compassion among your people. Give us peace in our communities, peace in our homes,
I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness,I have taken you by the hand and kept you,I have given you as a covenant to the people,a light to the nations,to open the eyes that are blind,to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,from the prison those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42.5-7
Sunday Readings: Sirach 27.4-7; 1 Corinthians 15.54-58; Luke 6.39-45 Why do you see a splinter in your neighbor’s eye but not notice the beam in your own? How can you say to your neighbor, “Let me take the splinter out of your eye” when you yourself do not see the beam in your own? Hypocrite,
Gospel Reflection for March 2, 2025 – 8th Sunday Ordinary Time Read More »
Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating but by love. This is an eternal truth. Overcome anger by love, overcome evil by good. Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth. Buddha (Dhammapada 1.5, 17.3, 149-150)
All you who are thirsty, come to the waters; even though you have no money, come! You who have no money, come; receive grain and eat. Come without paying, without cost; drink wine and milk. Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and
Sunday Readings: Jeremiah 17.5-8, 1 Corinthians 15.12, 16-20, Luke 6.17, 20-26 Jesus came down the mountain and stood on a level place where a crowd of his disciples and a large crowd of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coast of Tyre and Sidon were gathered. He looked at his disciples. “Blessed are
Gospel Reflection for Sunday, February 16, 2025 – 6th Sunday Ordinary Time Read More »
Let us pray for our sisters and brothersthat our loving God will lead them in the path of love,that God’s word shall be a lamp to their feet,that they may move with courage before God’s face.