2nd Sunday of Lent: The hope of the Transfiguration
Catholic Inspiration
The Transfiguration of Christ offers a glimpse of God's glory on the way to the Cross. This moment - seeing Jesus as he reigns in Heaven - offers us hope as we carry our crosses, confident in the Lord's victory.
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Daily Mass: Love your enemies
Catholic Inspiration
We find in this selection from the Sermon on the Mount one of the hardest teachings of Jesus: to love our enemies. Yet when we do this we cleanse our hearts of hate and fill them with God's grace, so that we will be prepared to follow Christ in this life and be with Him in the next.
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Daily Mass: Go first and be reconciled
Catholic Inspiration
Jesus urges his disciples to make reconciliation a priority in their lives, reminding us that forgiveness is a daily discipline as we follow the Lord.
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Walking with Mary on the Way of the Cross: Jesus falls 3x
Catholic Inspiration
The three falls of Jesus on the Way of the Cross express our awareness of the humanity of Jesus through his Incarnation; he becomes like us - taking on our human weakness - to redeem our weakness and restore us to grace.
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Daily Mass: Asking for what we need
Catholic Inspiration
The Lord teaches us to ask, seek and knock as we trust in God who knows the good things that we need.
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Daily Mass: The ongoing call to repentance
Catholic Inspiration
Jesus affirms the preaching of Jonah to repent. This is the constant message throughout salvation history: to acknowledge our sins and return to the Lord for mercy and forgiveness.
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Daily Mass: The Lord's Prayer and the power of forgiveness
Catholic Inspiration
Matthew's Gospel offers the Lord's Prayer - a powerful spiritual tool that speaks practically about the crucial role of forgiveness in our daily lives.
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Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle
Catholic Inspiration
St. Peter, for all his mistakes and sins, is empowered by Christ with a new name and a commission to lead the Church. May his example inspire us to follow the Lord today with full and open hearts.
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Monday Conversation: Praying daily with the Bible
Catholic Inspiration
Prayerfully reading the Bible (often called Lectio Divina - Divine Reading) is a powerful way the listen to what God has to say to our lives. Reading a small passage of Scripture we reflect and respond to the Lord by answering three simple questions: What does it say? What does it say to me? What does it make me say?
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1st Sunday of Lent: Confronting the darkness in our hearts
Catholic Inspiration
The temptation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark reminds us that the darkness of sin must be confronted in our hearts with the triumph of Christ.
info_outlineWhile on vacation visiting family in Indiana, Fr. Andrew has a conversation with his niece about how Jesus heals a leper in the Gospel today.
January 12, 2017 - on vacation in Fishers, IN
Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com