Homeless Catholic Reflections
Weekly reflections for March 15, 2025
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Norm McGraw: God's one-step program
John Pearring: Jesus’ new righteousness
Older Reflections:
Steve Hall: Life is not obvious
Steve Leininger: Three Chairs and some sheep
Lou Occhi: Acknowledge our weaknesses
Tim Trainor: How God views us
Ron Bruni: Are you ready for the task?
Steve Hessman: Hard work & the blessings
MHB-M: His disciples collaborate with Him
God's one-step program
God has a one-step program to help us love our enemies. That program is prayer.
By Norm McGraw
Click here to read Norm McGraw's reflection from March 15, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
Loving one’s enemies is a high bar to achieve. But Jesus believes we can get there. If not, why would he say loving those who hate us is the way that we may be “children of your heavenly Father?” After all, what was his response to those who brutally crucified him? “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). That’s the premier example of loving those who despise you.
Norm McGraw’s reflections: He said to them, “Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest." (Luke 10:2)
Jesus frames a new righteousness
Holiness is kindness in our walk with God. We become one with him.
Click here to read John Pearring's reflection from March 15, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
Jesus says, “offer no resistance to one who is evil.” Supporting his radical notion of dealing with evil is a list of seemingly impossible demands. Jesus urges us to express love with unrelenting kindness, the perfection of the Father. Imagine holiness as a magnet. The magnet imagery clings believers and the innocent to each other. Their contagious kindness is unstoppable, repelling evil. Evil cannot touch holiness, even as it strangles and ultimately extinguishes this temporary life. Evil’s fruitless end is inevitable.
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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