” I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” Mt 5:44 This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the start of the catholic journey of Lent. Lent is a 40 day journey of fasting and the giving up of something, that you think you need, but in reality you never needed
” Faith is the substance of things hoped for” Hebrews 11:1 ” They looked, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud” Exodus 16:10 Today within this society we clearly do not even know what Diversity is anymore, I say this because, we have become so lazy that, instead of looking deeply
” God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power’ Corinthians: 6:14 Is Death really permenent? Does our lifeless body really just lay there within the casket of death, until we just become one with the soil? So many questions about the day we all fear so much? But
” As he rode along, the people were spreading their cloaks on the road, the whole multitude of his Disciples began to praise God aloud with joy for all the mighty deeds they had seen” LK 19:36, 37b we all walk this journey through life with great expectations, we strive to achieve our dreams, we
” Jesus said, ” Neither do I condemn you, go, and from now on do not sin any more” JN 8:11b ” He who believes in me will live…and…will never die” John 11:25-26 There is no one within this society free of sin, we all have sinned many times as we walk our paths through
” Your throne , O God, is forever an ever” Psalm 45:6 ” Stand fast in the Lord” Phillippians 4:1 Someday with each passing day, the Human race stands at the edge of the Abyss of self destruction, God will intervene, it may be tomorrow, or it may be a thousand years from now? But
” A Leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “if you wish, you can make me clean”. Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, I do will it, be made clean” MK 1:40-41 With yet another Lenten journey about to embark and open it’s
” Jesus answered and said to her ” if you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you” ‘give me a drink’, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water” Jn 4:10 Basically with this passage, it is saying that we in this society have not
There are many roads for us to navigate upon as we drive in our vehicles, some of these roads will be traveled by many as well as roads that may seem very desolate. What most here in this society take for granted is, at one time very many years ago, even within a
With yet another Lenten season upon us and as the 40-day journey has begun with us going to church and having the ashes placed on our foreheads, let us all sacrifice something within our lives much the same as Jesus did, showing our faith in the Lord and we haven’t forgotten what