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“Honey- do you know what I just realized? Joseph doesn’t say anything in any of the Gospels.” “That is not correct.” “Huh?” “Joseph, at the public naming of Mary’s son, had to pronounce his name to be Jesus.” Matthew 1:18-24 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was […]
Isaiah 49: 3-6 3 He said to me, You are my servant, in you, Israel, I show my glory. God intends to show His glory through people. But what does God mean by “glory”? Here, the Hebrew word is פָאַר “paar” and it generally translates as “beautify” or “glorify.” God intends to use us, His people, to beautify His Creation. […]
I never really understood the Palm Sunday liturgy. We spend the first five minutes singing, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!!” and then head straight into fifteen minutes of the Passion and death of Jesus. As a result, I figured that the Palm Sunday part of it was pretty […]
Isaiah 11:1-10 1: But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. Isaiah does not claim that “from the roots of David a bud shall blossom.” Why not? Because while David started off acting righteously, he was eventually corrupted- remember the whole episode with sending Uriah […]
“For I know the plans I have for you… plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.” ~ Jeremiah 28:10 What are those plans? God lays them out in our Baptism. When we are baptized, we are baptized to join in Christ’s mission as “priest, prophet […]
