What is love? Well its likely not what we think. Today a story of discovering love in World War II and learning what true love is by looking to Christ.

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Its not what you think… It comes from a deep place within and isn’t dependent on what life throws at you.  Do you have it or are you just pretending?

 

Will you let Christ come up along side you and offer his love? You can revert and play the child or you can let him be your companion. Hear what Peter’s moment of forgiveness, great teachers, and a parent teacher conference have in common.

 

I share a deeply personal moment of prayer that changed my life, a moment of mercy, not as a way to to say what God has done in my life but as an example of what not to do. Remain in Christ…

 

Its a beautiful and terrifying thing to open the scriptures and find that the divine drama unfolding within to have immediate and pressing parallels in the world just outside your window. To see acted out on TV and reported in the newspapers the very same drama described in the Passion of the Christ. Its haunting to see malice, hate, and violence displayed so triumphantly and blatantly as it was against Christ and yet there it is… as plain as day calling out its victims.

And in the midst of that the cross still reigns. The cross of Christ still pours itself out. Mercy comes running and demands that it’s voice be heard and it’s love known.

What am I talking about? Well to be certain, current events, but mostly our human tendency to accept comfort rather than the cross.

 

Are you defined by your sins or by the actions of Grace? Are you a tree decorated badly or beautifully tended too? What defines you?

This Sunday’s homily is about setting aside the shame that can seemingly define us so that we can look up and see a love that would die for us.

Will you let mercy reign in your heart?

 

The Transfiguration of Our Lord is not an easy Mystery to understand. But like all mystery it invites us to more. Mystery is not just what you cant understand or what blows your mind. Mystery is truth that cannot be controlled or known completely, only responded to. Christ is a mystery that demands a response.

 

The devil takes shortcuts. Christ does not.

Today I share two stories about those who took the road up, not down, and learned the hard reality of sacrifice, love, and the difference between need and desire.

Photo from Cambria Grace Photography.

Doing Spiritual Combat!

No. I’m not joking on this one.

Listen and hear not only about how we’re all a little bit like Sheldon and how love like Fr. Max can changes lives.\

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