Let us be in touch with the mystery of God in our lives. Let us become aware of His active presence. Let us encounter God as loving and challenging us, inspiring and empowering us, a living engagement -- God With Us -- moving and walking forward together.
God is Love. Love does not force, does not push us into things. Love invites. We respond. God is Good, All Good, Supreme Good. Our fundamental principle of Franciscan Spirituality.
In today’s parable of the Wedding Banquet of the King’s Son, we hear once again, in a kind of allegory of salvation history, what the Kingdom of God is like.
Even when we grumble at God’s love and concern when we first discover it, we can make God’s heart rejoice if we obey.
From the Lord’s point of view, what really matters is not what you get. What really matters is that one works in the vineyard.
Forgiveness is realizing that we cannot change the past; forgiveness is refusing to let what we cannot change control us.
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
St. Matthew presents us with an uncomfortable encounter with Jesus. A Canaanite woman comes to Him desperate for help. Her daughter is suffering. She knows Jesus has the power to heal. She approaches Him with faith, calling Him, “Lord” and “son of David.”
Peter does not ask to walk on the water. He requests that Jesus command him to come to him on the water -- a journey ever deeper into Christ -- a journey that entails the overcoming of fear, the courage not to be afraid. Jesus responds with one word, “Come.”