Are you a friend of Christ or a slave to the world? As the Spirit opens my eyes, I see there is no middle ground. This is the narrow path that we hear about that few are able to walk.
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Living Our Way to God
We can’t think our way into relationship with God. It’s only through living the mystery can we know God. The Gospel tells us when the Spirit comes, he will guide us into all truth.
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A lot of people think of the Most Holy Trinity as a mystery that we can’t really understand, so they give up or don’t try. The truth is that we aren’t meant to really understand the mystery of the Trinity but to love it. The mystery keeps us restless until we find and rest in God.
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I’ve always loved Psalm 85 which gives us a vision of a land where the glory of our Lord dwells:
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Richard Rohr, OFM from the book The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder provides a prayer to be aware of God’s presence:
Prayer of Presence
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We the people of God have work to do. The Mass allows us to participate in God’s work on earth giving us spiritual food and nourishment for our journey.
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Do you possess the fire of love and compassion in your heart and soul? Today is Pentecost Sunday in the Catholic Church. This is the 50th day after Easter and a significant feast commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, signifying the birth of the Church and the empowerment of believers to share the Gospel.
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What stirs you to love?
This is a very important question as we ultimately will be judged by how well we loved. All those daily opportunities to love ourselves through Christ’s love and to love others we encounter. This endurance to love is the way Christ’s mission is fulfilled in this world as we wait for our heavenly home.
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I’m in the process of doing Fr. Mike Schmidt’s Catechism in a year podcast. What a gift it is to have support in reading such a rich but dense book about our Catholic Christian faith. Recently on Day 144 we read 1062-1065. It was enlightening to learn about the power of “Amen:”
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As we enter the final days of the Easter liturgical season how are you living as an Easter person with Alleluia as your song?
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Smitten With Goodness 