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Tag Archives: dying to self
Choose Not the Higher Position
According to scripture, our social aspirations betray the placement of our hearts – with God, or with false idols. In a passage unique to Luke, Jesus, in our [..]
Who Will Be Saved?
“Who will be saved?” If you Google the question, there are pages and pages of search results and books galore trying to distill the answer! Many of the [..]
Pentecost
Pentecost! The celebration of… what? Flames on heads? Speaking in tongues? The blessing of the Spirit on individuals? Although Pentecost was originally a festival celebration of the wheat [..]
Happy Mother’s Day
Today is a special day to remember the love, patience, and sacrifice of our mothers. From all of us at Saint Edward Parish, thank you, mothers, for all [..]
A New Commandment
There is a literary device novelists, playwrights and screen writers sometimes use known as a flashback. A flashback fills in details that are helpful to us, the viewer [..]
Known By the Shepherd
My experience with sheep is limited. I have watched them grazing from a distance. I’ve walked among them on my uncle’s farm and found them skittish and aloof. [..]
Gone Fishing!
If you walk into my office you will find a small sign – “Gone fishing”. This saying can either be read literally, indicating that I have really gone [..]
“Peace Be With You”
This isn’t Ordinary Time but a season of purposeful time. On this Second Sunday of Easter, we continue to remember the events surrounding the resurrection of Jesus and [..]
Resurrexit Sicut Dixit! Alleluia! Alleluia!
When someone whom we love dies, we begin to tell stories about them. The memories of the things they said, the images of the way they looked and [..]
Father Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit
For most of us, Holy Week unfolds like many other weeks: work, school, preparing meals, doing laundry. Palm Sunday begins an unusual week – a week – concentrated [..]