Category: God’s love
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Lost in Your Love
St. John tells us today of Jesus’s incomparable love. Jesus laid down His life for us. He told us that there is “no greater love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” He called us His friends, whom He chose and now appoints to go and to “bear fruit that will…
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The passion of our time.
When I heard of the Supreme Court’s decision adding sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, my first reaction was: All humans deserve the opportunity to seek employment free from discrimination. Yet, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles and president of USCCB lays…
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Loving heart to heart
The killing of George Floyd, the righteous anger, the protests against allowing whatever caused this awful murder to stand, the dark forces of opportunistic riots and looting, the hatred and loathing — it all makes me so sad, Father. Where are You in all this? How did we get here? What now? What can we…
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Love You. Trust You. Look to You. Rely on You.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good afternoon, Father. Thank You for this beautiful day that You’ve given us in Your mercy and Your delight. My daughter continues to be sad about her favorite pet’s and other’s recent deaths in her life and she’s still suffering from…
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Divine anticipation
That feeling. That sense of excitement. Of an inexplicable, almost physical knowingness. Signaling something momentous is about to happen. Something extraordinary. I have naught to do but wait In the full incredulous knowledge that You are at work and About to reveal Yourself In my life, In the world, In Your perfect answer to prayer.…
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Love Song
Words don’t flow the same way, Father, when I speak to ones other than You. The point of my story is too easily lost, when I lose sight of You. And my purpose dims, when my eyes turn from You. I only want to write to You, Father, My Heart. My words are meaningless and…
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Focus on Love
As we begin our final march toward Calvary, I pray each of you have enjoyed a fruitful Lent. I began reading the Word Among Us earlier in the year. It provides the daily readings and accompanying meditations for U.S. Catholic Mass. One meditation instructed that we should ‘focus on Jesus on the cross and imagine…
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Focus on love
I pray this finds each of you enjoying a happy and fruitful Lent. I have begun to read the Word Among Us, which provides the daily readings and accompanying meditation for U.S. Catholic Mass. The meditation last Wednesday (February 17, 2016) instructed that we should ‘focus on Jesus on the cross and imagine the LOVE…
Walking With My Brother 