18Apr21 (21bE3). Luke tells us about the Resurrection. Just like John’s account, Jesus wants to give us PEACE. Jesus wants to also eat…strange. This is a beautiful raw accounts of Jesus resurrection that tells us Jesus’ suffering love of the Sacred Heart and wounds.

11Apr21(21bE2DivineMercy). I don’t think we understand how important peace is. The world wants to give a temporary and transitory calm that is called peace. God wants a peace that can only come through right ordering and justice.

01Apr21(21HolyThursday). Institution of the Eucharist and the Priesthood. Jesus does not ordain perfect people, but ordains Peter and Judas? Our imperfects do not overcome God. God’s goodness overcomes us. We need more priests and more prayers.

28Mar21 (21Passion). God wants us to be passionate. Passionate in love. Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” reminds us that God is passionately in love with us. So passionate to suffer and die for us. Pray that we may have a passionate love that grows and perfects in Agape love.

21Mar21 (21bL5). Exterior laws are difficult. But when we trust God and seek to make his law written on our heart it makes it a little easier. Suffering is sometimes the means of obedience.

07Feb21 (21bO5).  People can sometimes accuse Christianity as escapism and hoping in the best. Job does not escape his suffering by turning to God but acknowledges reality of struggle, we should too. The modern heresy of Prosperity Gospel sometimes promotes this idea that if we have faith we will prosper in the world. If we are experiencing difficulty, we must not have faith. In reality Christianity is a religion of God suffering with us. We need to not explain away suffering but sit with our friends like God does with us.

31Dec20 (20MaryMotherOfGod). Jesus is fully God and fully human. Mary is mother of one person. Jesus Christ who is able to save us because he is one of us and has the ability because he is God. A simple, but super complicated belief. Interesting history.

27Dec20 (20HolyFamily). Families are filled with sinners, us. What can we learn from the Holy Family? Even though they were without sin, they still experienced great difficulty and suffering. Jesus grows and learns in the midst of obedience in His family. We also learn and grow as well.

24Dec20 (20Eve). Christmas is so exciting!! Maybe more as a kid when you got gifts and didn’t have to worry about giving the right gifts. A lot of time Christmas is lost in all the celebrations of Christmas during Advent. Hopefully we can be reminded of the amazingness of Christmas not because of gifts, but because of the great gift of God’s presence as a child and the present gift of the Eucharist.

20Dec20 (20bA4). How can God love all people and there be Hell? Free-will is a greater good than the absence of Hell.