Holy Week – Season of Passion Jesus appeared helpless, like a lamb being led to slaughter, and yet was he? Appearances can be deceiving. Was he even stronger in his weakness than those who beat him? He accepted suffering, taunts, blows without retaliating. Who is stronger, the one who returns blow for blow, jeer for […]
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We grieve because we have loved. It is a gift, one we don’t want, yet a gift nonetheless. Think of the alternative – to go through life without allowing ourselves to love others because of the pain involved when we lose them. Not an alternative many chose. My book, Walking with Families through Grief, helps you unwrap […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion Peter, Peter, foolish, fickle man. How you protest your love and devotion. How you speak from your heart, your feelings, and let these emotions get the better of you. One minute you are promising to follow Jesus anywhere, a true promise inspired by your love; then less than twelve […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion “What is truth?” Pilate asks Jesus, and well he may, well might we ask the same in this day and age of relativity where everyone thinks they define their own truth. What is truth? Truth is relative in many ways. It is relative to the people and circumstances but […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion Chances are we know the pain of betrayal, whether small betrayals, like friends ditching us in order to be with other friends or breaking promises, or larger betrayals, the betrayal of infidelity, or betrayal on the job by those who take credit for our ideas or work. Judas betrayed […]
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Death, it comes to all of us, yet how we resist it. We want to put off the inevitable as long as we can. Jesus in his dying, taught us so much about living. In all of his suffering, he didn’t forget to think of others, to comfort the women who were grieving. He made […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion On Palm Sunday we read from one of the three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark or Luke. John is reserved for Good Friday. Each of these is similar in so many ways, different in others. Taken as a whole they can give us different glimpses into those last hours of […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion The sun is shining, children run about playing with palms given to them by their parents as we prepare to begin our service. It truly is a great day. A good way to start this holiest of weeks. A light breeze blows through threatening to blow away song sheets. […]
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HOLY WEEK – SEASON OF PASSION I’ve long had a love-hate relationship with Holy Week. The richness of the liturgies and readings, the drama, the opportunity to stop what we are doing, put ordinary life on hold, in order to reflect more fully on the great mysteries of our faith–I love this. The work of […]
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Lent – Preparing for Holy Week God’s word is a two edged sword. It cuts both ways and it cuts deep. It knows just how deep to go. Better than the most refined laser technology used in medical procedures, it seeks out the cancer, cuts and removes that which is diseased and leaves the rest. […]
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