Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019 – The Righteous Man (or Woman)
"What is it to be righteous? Merriam-Webster suggests that righteousness is connected with acting in accord with divine or moral law, as morally right or justifiable"...
"What is it to be righteous? Merriam-Webster suggests that righteousness is connected with acting in accord with divine or moral law, as morally right or justifiable"...
"What about the institutional church today? Is it following the example of Jesus or the example to the apostles? Is the church staying behind “locked doors”?" ...
"The pithy one-liner in Matthew 6.34 “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” reminds me that each day contains an ample burden of evils and suffering, and that there is no need to add to this burden."...
It makes my heart beat faster to think that there is mystery that we don’t fully understand. Now I think of Santa as a comforting father figure, kindly, friendly, caring: like God."...
"We don’t listen to our dreams much today, but for the ancient people, they were legitimate channels through which the supernatural could speak"...
Winnipeg's winter has well and truly settled in but is there not something to remind us that if winter comes can spring be far behind?...
"They transform lives through the four Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) chosen by the Society of Jesus: Spiritual Exercises and discernment; walking with poor and marginalized people; journeying with youth; and caring for our common home."...
"So many threats to our security can cause us anxiety. I could be anxious about having to perform or prove myself in some way."...
" I was thinking of them as I used Magi stamps on some of my Christmas cards, remembering the creche under the tree in my boyhood home was never complete without all the animals, sheep, oxen, donkey, AND camels! "...
"There is an essential consistency, however, in what we have sought for our novices over the years. The Society ever continues to be itself."...