Welcoming one another; the other who is sacred and holy. All of us, children of God, Brothers and sisters all. So let us live our rule, seasoned with the Beatitudes.
us welcome Him who tries us with various testing. Let us rejoice, for by such travail the new creation is born in us. “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
The casting of fire releases the Spirit, purifying, empowering, animating and enlightening life to love God and love our neighbor.
The present is open to the future, step by step, and one day it will become the present. The overarching theme in today’s Scripture invites us--all of us--to be faithful and watchful, active, confident and hopeful.
The rich man’s fault was not that he was greedy or selfish, but that he was blind, not seeing the poor and the struggling, not giving life to those who have none, not giving them a new future.
When we pray let us attend to God with trust, with confidence. Knowing that God is our Father. And if we must ask, ask for the Spirit that binds us all as one.
As Franciscans, we learn to “pray without ceasing,” to maintain a continuous, conscious connection with God throughout the day.
“Go and do likewise.”
“May the Lord give you peace.” We are minstrels of the Lord, singing joy into joyless hearts. We listen to the voice of the Lord; we discern His life-giving Word; we go forth to be imitations of what is coming—the reign of God’s peace with abiding justice for all.
In confessing Jesus’ identity, Peter confessed his own. The Lord wanted nothing less from Peter than perfect conformity with Himself: “Another will bind you (as they did Me) and take you where you would not go.”