Find what you’re looking for
It’s probably not difficult to recall times in our lives’ journeys when we were “lost and wayward.” We really needed to be found again through God’s love and care for us.
It isn’t lack of money that usually keeps me from being as intense about the Kingdom of God as Jesus proposes. How about you? What’s distracting you from the Kingdom?
Mary Magdalene is an attractive figure. She is interested only in the Lord, and when she identifies him she doesn’t want to let him go.
Jesus is not saying that his natural family is unimportant, but that the new community of faith that he is beginning to gather around him is more important and has its own primacy.
Sometimes we are tempted to ask for some further indication that the Lord is really with us. But in Jesus we already have all the certainty we need.
Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for insubordination, and later she was told to move her congregation out of a diocese. Through it all, she showed a radical trust in God and the Church, even when some of its leaders were less than Christlike.
The Pharisees are troubled by Jesus’ words and actions. Jesus responds by laying low. He prefers to be the quiet servant of the Lord that Isaiah foretold.
It’s easy to judge others, but when we do we may find Jesus judging us in return.
Jesus is the answer to all of our troubles and burdens. He lightens them either by increasing our strength or by clarifying our perceptions or simply by taking the burden off our shoulders.
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MT 13:44-52 OR 13:44-46
Jesus said to his disciples: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price,
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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM
