by fkeene | Jul 25, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation “Pray like this,” Jesus says, as if he’s teaching his disciples something both simple and profound. “Our Father ….” Think about this. His followers had been trailing him up and down the ancient Holy Land for a long time by now. They had watched and heard...
by fkeene | Jul 25, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
GATHERING Celebrant ☩ Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. People And blessed be his kingdom, now and forever. Amen. Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hidden: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the...
by fkeene | Jul 25, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation The parable of the Good Samaritan is directed to all of us who take seriously the concept neighbor. Friend would work as an interchangeable metaphor, one that Jesus uses elsewhere. Some of us would constrict what neighbor means to give us an out. We’d...
by fkeene | Jul 25, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
Naaman was a commander of the army of Syria. He was a good leader and was held in high favor because of the victories God brought him. Yet Naaman was a leper. Naaman’s wife had a servant girl from Israel who told that there was a prophet there would...
by fkeene | Jul 25, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation It’s difficult for us to reconcile Jesus’ tenderness and empathy, with his radical statements about what we need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus proclaims difficult, even impossible lessons. We encounter this Jesus in Sunday’s gospel from...
by fkeene | Jul 10, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation There is a poignant, multi-leavel story in this gospel. Jesus performs a healing of a man beset by demons in the land of the Gerasenes on the opposite side of the sea of Galilee. As Jesus alites from the fishing boat, a man in deepest pain throws himself...
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