The Returning
Lift your hearts, lift up your voices, Raise the gate, fling wide the door. Rise to meet the Long-Desired One, God-With-Us come to restore. Learn to see the Christ beside …
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Halfway Through Advent
O God, I know you are here. But where am I? Halfway through Advent, and I have yet to enter into the heart of this season. How about those prayerful …
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O Radiant Dawn!
Christmas is so much more than a re-enactment of a famously beloved story, illustrated on frosted holiday cards, and draped in tinsel garland. Indeed, our hearts are warmed by images …
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Veni, Emmanuel
Advent is a deep and mysterious season whose shadowy chill permeates our December in ways unlike any other. In blinding contrast, we see the world around us, frantically spending, over-consuming, …
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Objects in the Rear-View Mirror
Peter approached Jesus and asked him,“Lord, if my brother sins against me,how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times, …
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Refrigerator Magnets
The church is to be a field hospital. – Pope Francis Not everything that is broken shows up on the x-ray – Sutter Health radio ad Boredom is rage, spread …
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A Good Day
Sometimes I disappear from here on the weekends. It is not because I am slacking. This past Saturday I spent the day in Sunnyvale. I was there to lead a …
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Speak Up
Jesus said to his disciples:“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you. – Matthew 7:7 She Who …
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One of Our Own
This past week we lost a beloved member of the music ministry at St Joan of Arc Parish, where I serve as director. Farolito Cristobal was a cantor and devoted …
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Faith and the Unknown
The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? – Psalm 27 Some people are creative worriers. I know, because I am one of those people. I …
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