Homeless Catholic Reflections
Weekly reflections for December 28, 2024
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Steve Hall: Three Christmas songs
John Pearring: Startling use of witnesses
Older Reflections:
Steve Leininger: Are you Elijah?
Lou Occhi: Jesus hung 'back' on a tree
Tim Trainor: Who is the fig tree gardener?
Norm McGraw: You are God’s building
Ron Bruni: Persistence, Prayer, & Kingdom
Steve Hessman: Not a single act
Tim Trainor: Luke elevates women
Messages of three different Christmas songs
The association between music and one’s mood, attitude, and priorities
By Steve Hall
Click here to read Steve Hall’s reflection from December 28, 2024. Here's an excerpt:
Christmas music in our house begins as soon as my wife allows, though I sometimes push the envelope. In any case, the association between music—at the moment it’s Christmas music—and one’s mood, attitude or priorities came to mind. Considering the continual play of Christmas music in our home, the message of three different songs crossed in my thoughts.
Steve Hall's reflections: For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:9)
Scripture's startling use of multiple witnesses at the Resurrection
Through witness eyes we experience, but barely imagine, the complexity of God's plans—we dismiss the testimonies at our own peril
Click here to read John Pearring’s reflection from December 27, 2024. Here's an excerpt:
After the Resurrection, Jesus is still fully God and man, but now the symbiosis of Jesus’ role as creator and king, brother and redeemer, morphs. And he’s not done—still with the Ascension ahead of him and the second coming’s total restoration of creation. Who can grasp all that this means?
John Pearring’s reflections: He said to them, “Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest." (Luke 10:2)
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