Meditaciones diarias

Christ gave us the greatest example of how to walk through our suffering. May we all be blessed the grace to take up our own cross and carry it through Prayer, Love, and Forgiveness.

In faith and with eyes open, let us walk with each other in peaceful actions to tear down the walls of hatred and injustice. 

We are all called to join the one who did not come to be served but to serve, whose purpose in life was not self-promotion but to empty himself for others.

This Ordinary time calls us to take time to recognize the holiness all around us; in the faces of our children playing at water’s edge, hiking with our friends along Canyon Pass, or celebrating the life and times of a loved one gone before us.

We Catholics consider yesterday’s Feast of Pentecost the “birth” of the Church, so today (Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church), Mary’s “motherhood” is not some vague devotion, but a real dimension of Church life.

In the Church calendar, today's Solemnity ranks up there with Christmas and Easter.  So significant is this day that we are actually given a variety of options for readings and liturgical prayers on today's Solemnity.

May we not be concerned about others’ relationship with God or the blessings they may have received. Instead, may we be concerned with following Jesus, so that the Good News continue to be proclaimed.

Today, Christ asks us as well: “Do you love me?” And the answer is not only spoken… it is lived in a life offered.

Jesus prays for us to come together as one and not live as isolated individuals. Jesus sees us as created, unique, precious, equal persons and created in the image and likeness of God.

The terrifying question is not whether the world hates the Gospel. Jesus already told us it would. The more dangerous question is whether we have learned to betray the Gospel while defending it.