Daily Reflections
Renewing Love: The Lenten period is a favorable time of renewal. Renewal is not merely with regard to the small sacrifices we make; it encompasses our entire life and being. We are called during lent to reconsider our relationship with God and neighbor. Needed Renewal This renewal of life goes…
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Living with a contemplation of beauty gives great satisfaction. But living everyday in the presence of such beauty gives the greatest joy. We have been told that the greatest beauty one can ever contemplate is God. I have often wondered how this God is. But we are also taught that…
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The Old Covenant: Today’s first reading highlights the covenant God made and remade with his people: the moment when God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, and through him, to the people. Moses tells the people in the desert, “Today you are making this agreement with the Lord…and today the…
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My dear friends, the first reading today is speaking to you and me. It is very appropriate during the earliest days of the Lenten season as the Lord is calling us to be firm and resolute in doing good. He often reiterates the blessings of integrity and the damming effects…
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Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Simon Peter can give us all a lesson during this Lenten season. As the disciples gather and Jesus converses with them, honest remarks are made. The disciples share who the people of the region think…
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A Difficult Crowd: We were a great crowd, that day, gathering to see Jesus. There was talk of signs and wonders and there were some there who mocked and challenged him to test what a miracle worker he was and to see what was on offer for them. Then he…
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Gladys Staines, the widow of Australian missionary Graham Staines, found it in her heart to forgive Dara Singh and the mob that set fire to the jeep where her husband and sons, Philip (10) and Timothy (6), were asleep in a remote village in Odisha, India. Graham had spent 30…
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Today’s gospel account from the book of Mark is a very short, to the point, account of Jesus going to the desert, being tempted, and returning ready to minister. If we look up the definition of desert, some synonyms for the word are barren land, wilderness, and dust bowl. Dust…
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