The traditional Lenten discipline of self-denial is a spiritual response to our self-indulgences and lashing out at others. No, our devotion will not save us: Only God can do that, but it does assist us in becoming more aware of how self-indulgent we can be, and how our self-indulgence prevents us from being faithful to […]
Let us pray to our seemingly invisible Father in heaven: Invisible God, with the incarnation of your Son, Jesus Christ, we see a reflection of you in your Son. You also give us the Holy Spirit who enables us in prayer and in the search for your truth. In our worship, strengthen us to know […]
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is tempted to ostentatiously display divine power to gain more fans and personal advancement. Jesus was not into sensationalism and a mass popular appeal that glorifies the self, and personal advancement at the expense of others; rather, Jesus glorified God the Father by showing by his way of life […]
Let us pray to our living God that we turn our heart to God: God, lead us through the Holy Spirit with your Son Jesus to the desert of questions and temptations so that you speak to our heart and bring us back to you in loving trust. Help us to discard all that leads […]
To me, an old, battered piece of furniture is just an old piece of battered furniture; however, to a craftsman who restores woodwork it has great “potential” because he/she can restore it and make it beautiful and useful again. Think of the Holy Spirit as the craftsman who renews God’s Image within us and among […]
Let us pray that we grow in the likeness of Christ: God of life and glory, at the Mount of Transfiguration your Son was revealed in splendor before he suffered death upon the cross. Grant that we, beholding his majesty, be strengthened to follow him and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; […]
