On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said...
"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise." (Carl Knudsen) The Birth of the Son of God was a WOW moment in the history of the world....
The women who went to the tomb on Easter were told to tell the disciples to go to Galilee. "For each of us, too, there is a “Galilee” at the origin of our...
"Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive...
"(With Easter we see) the long war brought to an end, and reconciliation made between God and our nature, the devil brought to shame, demons in flight, death destroyed, Paradise opened, the curse blotted...
"(Easter means) to pass from sin to life, from guilt to grace, from being blemished to holiness." (St Ambrose) Have we made that journey? Yes, when we were baptized; each time we experience...
"Let us then, with full confidence, partake of the Body and Blood of Christ. For in the figure of bread His Body is given to you, and in the figure of wine His...
"When God makes a covenant with us, God says: 'I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it...
We can never fully comprehend the Lord's unconditional love nor can we adequately respond to it. His love flows from his self-identity, while my love is limited by my wounded finiteness. He gives...
The way of salvation is that of obedience to the will of God and suffering humiliation at the hands of others as well as showing humility through service. This is the path Jesus...
Lord, I am in need of your mercy every day and every minute of each day. Why? Because I am a sinner, who means well, but falls short of your glory. In your...
"God forgives not with a decree but with a caress (mercy). Mercy is something difficult to understand: it does not erase sins. What erases sins is God's forgiveness. Mercy goes further. It is...
"Some people think that sin is a stain, only a stain, something that you can have dry-cleaned so that everything goes back to normal. the way you take a jacket or dress to...
St. Joseph Novena Prayers March 11-19 Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have confidence in you and that, after...
"The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking him for forgiveness. We need to ask for the grace not to get tired of asking for forgiveness, because...
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught...
"Community is not possible without the willingness to forgive one another "seventy-seven times" (see Matthew 18:22). Forgiveness is the cement of community life. Forgiveness holds us together through good and bad times, and...
"Optimism and hope are radically different attitudes. Optimism is the expectation that things-the weather, human relationships, the economy, the political situation, and so on-will get better. Hope is the trust that God will...
In her very last sentence of her autobiography, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus states clearly : "It is not because God, in His anticipating Mercy, has preserved my soul from mortal sin...
"Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the day or night when we are not thinking. You might say our thinking is "unceasing."...
"Jesus' love is great, Jesus' love is merciful, Jesus' love forgives; but you have to open yourself, and to open oneself means to repent, to accuse oneself of the things that are not...
Announcement: Man of God Conference
By spiritaflame 11:00 AMI want to personally invite you, men, to the Man Of God Conference on Mercy this weekend, March 4-5, 2016 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center on Hwy 311 in Schriever. It begins Friday...
To forget is to complete the process of forgiveness. To forgive from the heart is the first step; to forget the pain and anger of the past hurt is the second step. God...
