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April 25, 2023
Cast ALL Your Cares On Him
Christ is risen! “Take a vacation,” he said. Sure, I’ll take a vacation, but how? I’m busy. There are things that have to get done. People are depending on me. People expect me to be available to them. I HAVE TO work! Sound familiar? Yea, I know, we Type A personalities tend to have a “Superman” complex, or, worse yet, a “messiah” complex! We are supposed to “save the world.” and yet,…
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April 24, 2023
True Repentance Refreshes the Soul
Christ is risen! I like this quote: “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” Yep, I bet you know that feeling of being so fed up with the everyday activities of life that you say “STOP!” And yet, why is it that too many of my vacations have been as stressful or more stressful than my regular schedule? It’s because an actual “refreshing”…
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April 21, 2023
The Zeal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit – Bright Friday
Christ is risen! “What would Jesus do?” That phrase was popular a few years ago, and I confess to being amused by this fad of “easy religion.” One of the main reasons was that the life of Jesus is not easily categorized as the comfortable “Jesus” we moderns would prefer. You know the “Jesus” I’m talking about The “meek” Jesus that pats everyone on the head and tells them they are “OK,…
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April 20, 2023
The Spiritual Refreshing Wind – Bright Thursday
Christ is risen! Ah, the beauties of Springtime! And the hay fever! For those of us susceptible to the reign of terror that is pollen season; the watery eyes, the stuffy nose, basically all the bad stuff on all the commercials we see for medicine to combat this scourge of this wonderful season; we love and hate this time of year! Especially when the wind is blowing around all that yellowish-green pollen…
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April 19, 2023
Behold And Follow Him – Bright Wednesday
Christ is risen! “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” During the COVID lockdown, I remember being tempted with despair but then I read the rest of the quote and I refuse to allow the temporary to drown out the Song of the Resurrection in my heart! This startling quote from the great American poet Henry David Thoreau captures an insight…
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April 18, 2023
I Know You – Bright Tuesday
Christ is risen! “Now I recognize you!” He was an old friend from High School, and, for the life of me, I couldn’t remember the face UNTIL he made that facial expression he use to make at lunchtime that made us fall on the floor laughing! I love moments like that when the “AHA” moment comes and clarity arrives! It is such a reassuring feeling that maybe I haven’t really lost my…
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April 17, 2023
Hell Is Embittered! He Is Risen
If everything matters, nothing matters. After all, if you are just headed for the grave why not indulge all my desires? The loss of the joy of the Resurrection has unleashed hell on our world. But the Resurrection turns hell into an empty place! Hell is truly embittered by the Faith exposing just how impotent hell and immature passions really are in the Face of Him Who lives forever.
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Knowing God Face to Face! – Bright Monday
Christ Is Risen! What joy! What happiness! What a celebration! Words fail. Songs sung over and over again still cry out for more! Death is conquered by the Unconquered Son. O what news! The whole earth basks in the glow of the Victory of Christ over death! No more fear! No more night! The Son has dawned and there are no dead left in the grave! It all sounds like so much…
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April 14, 2023
Trampling Down Death By Death – Holy Friday
On this Holy Friday: Let us pray to the Lord, O God and Father: How can the light of the sun pierce the terrible darkness of this day and its events? Your only Son, the true light, in the darkness of his ordeal, was pleased to embrace in his humanity the sufferings he could not endure in his divinity. And to what purpose, if not to prove that he considered us worthy…
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April 13, 2023
Betrayed! – Holy Thursday
On this Holy Thursday: Let us pray to the Lord, O you whose love for us is eternal and unchanging: Today, as your Son reclined at table with his chosen friends, he gave them the mysteries of his life-giving love for us, to be present forever on the altars of his holy churches throughout the world. Now, as we celebrate the institution of these mysteries, we entreat you to dispel all doubt…
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