View From the Ambo

Jesus leads the Apostles Peter James and John up the mountain to encounter Him as He really is. He desires to reveal Himself to each of us, and it is only in encountering Him that we can become true disciples.

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Jesus enters the desert to be tested, and because He understands His mission, remains faithful. By His faithfulness, He has entered us into the New Covenant. Because of this, we are called to know, love, and serve God, but how? This takes discernment to stay in the covenant!

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This Lenten, are we allowing the Lord to give us what He wants?

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Do we come to Jesus with faith that He can heal us?

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Job struggles to understand his suffering, and when he experiences the Lord, he is able to make sense of it. The sick of Capernaum are also suffering, and the Lord heals some, but presumably not all - why. And then Jesus leaves them. In understanding the why, we might endure the how, or understand the mission.

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The people of Israel did not want to hear the voice of God, and so He promised that He would send a prophet who would speak to them and tell them His word and will. He gives the law in love. But He sends Jesus, but do we hear Him yet? Have we asked to hear Him? Do we recognize His love of us?

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Christ's call to us is an appointed time in which we are invited to abandon the boats, nets, family, and work that keep us from following. Like Jonah, Peter, Andrew, James and John, we are called let God transform these things to proclaim the Good News.

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John the Baptist points out Jesus. Andrew brings his brother, and they experience Jesus. We, too, are asked what we seek, and invited to experience Jesus.

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A little Reflection on Epiphany.

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Mary is the Mother of God, and she longs to bring us to Christ, and Christ to us.

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