April 3rd, 2011
Today’s gospel tells of another one of Jesus’ great acts of kindness. Imagine being blind from birth. We’d have no sense of color, no idea of the beauty of the world around us, no idea of what our loved ones looked like, no idea of how we looked. What a shock this blind man must have had when sight shattered his darkness and for the first time he saw. He saw the sun, the sky, he saw his parents, and he could put faces to the voices he’d been hearing for years. He saw the temple.
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In this week’s bulletin, the Passover remembrance meal and the National Catholic Mission returns.
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March 27th, 2011
Water is very much in the news these days. The news out of Japan is tragic. We usually associate water with life but in Japan and a couple of years ago in Indonesia and just recently in Australia we saw the destructive power of water. Over the last week we’ve seen scene after scene of a wall of water sweeping everything before it, homes, autos, ships and men, women and children. This was not life giving water, it was destructive and death-dealing. It will take years for the good people of Japan to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
In this week’s bulletin, the National Catholic Mission returns, and the Sharelife collection.
March 20th, 2011
One of the places we visited on our trip to the Holy Land last November was the Mount of the Transfiguration. In the gospel Matthew tells us that Jesus took his favorites, Peter, James and John, up a very high mountain. It really is a very high mountain. We rode up the mountain so far by our tour bus and took taxis up the rest of the way. If memory serves me right it took well over an hour to make the trip. When we got to the top I had a hard time believing the four of them really climbed to the top of that mountain. It would have taken them days. The view from this mountain is spectacular. There are ruins of a Byzantine church and a new one built many years ago. In the main body of the church is a beautiful mosaic of the Transfiguration with two small chapels, one dedicated to Moses, the other to Elijah. It was one of the most impressive places we visited.
Founded by St. Paul of the Cross, every Passionist takes a special vow to spend his or her energies in promoting remembrance of the sufferings of Jesus, the memory of the Cross, and reflection of the meaning of the Cross for the world.
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