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God’s deal with Joseph
The Holy Family is our family. And God shows us that we are part of a project that thrives on making room for the new.
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All About Joseph?
The gospel for Advent 4A gives us Joseph’s angelic encounter while deciding about Mary when most of us are thinking Christmas.
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It’s not just doing the right thing
We often read the challenge Joseph faces as doing the “right” thing. What the angel invites them all into is something new.
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Angels & encountering the divine
The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.
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Radiating Love
Luke sets us up to see the birth of Jesus as more than the uncommon birth of the Son of God. It is a common flashpoint for love.
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Between: Skipping past the birth of Jesus before he’s born
Just because the lectionary has us reading the beginning of Matthew in the wrong order doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get it straight.
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Bearing Christ
The light doesn’t come from the bright places: its radiance and brilliance shines through the darkness, through the darkest corners of our world, through the darkest corners of our lives. It envelops the darkness with its truth, its mercy, its love. Bringing forth the salvation of the world Christmas Eve | Luke 2:1-20 The Promise…
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Christmas Message 2015
Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. When we tell the birth story of Jesus, we speak of this unlikely couple with a very unlikely pregnancy; a trip to Bethlehem with its…