This is easy! Each week on Thursday I post my homily idea...my main focus for preaching this coming Sunday. What I am hoping for is a reaction from people in the pews. Does my "focus" connect with your daily life, faith, and experience? Or not? Either affirm the direction I am going in (by giving me an example from your life) or challenge me, ask for clarification! Questions are the best! Reaction rather than reflection is what I'm looking for here. Don't be afraid, get in the ring. Ole!
Thursday, May 22, 2014
May 25th Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat and 12:30 on Sunday
Forgive or Forget It #6
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Forgiveness is surely a gift to be passed on. It is Love.
To love one another as He has loved us? Not easy, but it is what God asks of us. We don't have to agree with one another or condone or tolerate beyond the limitation, we don't even have to like him, her, the behavior, but one does have to try to see beyond that human behavior and see the human for what he/she is - the same as the one.
Do you see the Love? We are one, but we're broken, thus divided.
Choose to become that Love. Become forgiveness to the other as well as one's own self.
I think if one doesn't even have an awareness of a lack of forgiveness, how can their relationship with Jesus have any substance. Would that not be a presence of duplicity?
HE wants our entire soul. Yes, it is truly a choice.
Forgiveness is surely a gift to be passed on. It is Love.
To love one another as He has loved us? Not easy, but it is what God asks of us. We don't have to agree with one another or condone or tolerate beyond the limitation, we don't even have to like him, her, the behavior, but one does have to try to see beyond that human behavior and see the human for what he/she is - the same as the one.
Do you see the Love? We are one, but we're broken, thus divided.
Choose to become that Love. Become forgiveness to the other as well as one's own self.
I think if one doesn't even have an awareness of a lack of forgiveness, how can their relationship with Jesus have any substance. Would that not be a presence of duplicity?
HE wants our entire soul. Yes, it is truly a choice.
I just came from Mass - a great act of remembrance - and as I worshiped I was remembering one of the comments in last week’s reflection on forgiveness...about not forgetting.
"Remembering" is one of the great components of our faith because in that act we see the grace of God constantly at work. We see his presence, his steadfast remembrance of us, in all of the dyings and risings of our lives. To “forget” would mean to choose to deny some reality which would then encumber the growth of a love that is bred in truth. I like the Matador’s frequent reminder to us that these are choices we can make: we can choose to remember, we can choose to forgive, we can choose to love. These can all be active decisions of mind and heart – rather than simply responding with selfish emotions that the world would tempt us to live by.
On this Memorial Day weekend when we are remembering those who have fallen for us – I am especially liking this idea of forgiveness being a remembrance…and remembering that we too can choose to give ourselves away in love even in the little ways of each day.
3 comments:
Forgiveness is surely a gift to be passed on. It is Love.
To love one another as He has loved us? Not easy, but it is what God asks of us. We don't have to agree with one another or condone or tolerate beyond the limitation, we don't even have to like him, her, the behavior, but one does have to try to see beyond that human behavior and see the human for what he/she is - the same as the one.
Do you see the Love? We are one, but we're broken, thus divided.
Choose to become that Love. Become forgiveness to the other as well as one's own self.
I think if one doesn't even have an awareness of a lack of forgiveness, how can their relationship with Jesus have any substance. Would that not be a presence of duplicity?
HE wants our entire soul. Yes, it is truly a choice.
in Christ ~
Forgiveness is surely a gift to be passed on. It is Love.
To love one another as He has loved us? Not easy, but it is what God asks of us. We don't have to agree with one another or condone or tolerate beyond the limitation, we don't even have to like him, her, the behavior, but one does have to try to see beyond that human behavior and see the human for what he/she is - the same as the one.
Do you see the Love? We are one, but we're broken, thus divided.
Choose to become that Love. Become forgiveness to the other as well as one's own self.
I think if one doesn't even have an awareness of a lack of forgiveness, how can their relationship with Jesus have any substance. Would that not be a presence of duplicity?
HE wants our entire soul. Yes, it is truly a choice.
in Christ ~
I just came from Mass - a great act of remembrance - and as I worshiped I was remembering one of the comments in last week’s reflection on forgiveness...about not forgetting.
"Remembering" is one of the great components of our faith because in that act we see the grace of God constantly at work. We see his presence, his steadfast remembrance of us, in all of the dyings and risings of our lives. To “forget” would mean to choose to deny some reality which would then encumber the growth of a love that is bred in truth. I like the Matador’s frequent reminder to us that these are choices we can make: we can choose to remember, we can choose to forgive, we can choose to love. These can all be active decisions of mind and heart – rather than simply responding with selfish emotions that the world would tempt us to live by.
On this Memorial Day weekend when we are remembering those who have fallen for us – I am especially liking this idea of forgiveness being a remembrance…and remembering that we too can choose to give ourselves away in love even in the little ways of each day.
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