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Every opportunity to love
The Presentation of Our Lord at the temple offers us another opportunity to witness others’ response to faith, to embody it with hope.
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Why we’re afraid to listen
In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.
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Being on the hook for good things
When Jesus declares the day of the Lord’s favor in the reading from Isaiah, he’s inviting us to share in the making of this reality.
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Graced to see grace
It is the servants who witness the miracle, not the guests. The ones who are invited to do the work, to participate in sharing God’s grace.
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Between Epiphany 1 + 2 (Year C)
The awkward experience of realizing the “first miracle” of Jesus isn’t the first or most important thing Jesus did after his baptism.
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Letting go of the old world
In the baptism of Jesus, we are invited into old debates about the nature of Jesus and baptism, but a bigger debate is right there.
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Baptism as new direction
The place of baptism for Christians is not so supposed to be seen as an entrance to a club, but an invitation to a way of being.
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A Christian New Year
This first Sunday in Advent, we explore Jesus’s apocalyptic vision and what it says about the way we work through our present.