From Our Little Roses
Each year as we approach the end of the Lenten Season we are reminded that all of our hope in Christ for the resurrection and the new life we have together in Christ is grounded in the suffering and the death of Jesus. Our own agendas are nothing next to this. Any pain or guilt that ...
We are reminded during Lenten Season that the compassion of God is followed by action. The Parable of the Prodigal Son shows quite well the character of our Creator in relation to us, His creation. The old image that some may have of a God in heaven looking down on us to see if we do ...
On this third Sunday of Lent Jesus tells the story of a fig tree that was planted in a vineyard. The owner of the field comes looking for figs but he finds none. He gets upset and complains to the gardener reminding him that for 3 years this fig tree has produced nothing. The owner ...
Mark Twain said that people could be categorized into 3 groups: commonplace, remarkable and lunatics. I do not know about you, but I can think of a few people that indeed belong in all of those 3 groups.
Saint Paul on the other hand says that there are only two kinds of ...
The first Sunday of Lent brings us back to the wilderness. Each year we are reminded of Jesus' place of testing, of privation and temptation. We are told that for 40 days our Lord was tempted by the devil but he resisted all the challenges for forty days. I wonder if we have been ...
Philippians 2: 5-8
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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Matthew 6: 9-13
Jesus said:
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
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Saint Luke 23: 33-34
When they reached the place called the Skull, the soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross. They also nailed the two criminals, one to the right and the other to the left of Jesus.
Soon after, Jesus said:
«Father, forgive all these people! They don't know what ...
Luke 4:24-27
24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was ...
