Let Your goodness Lord appear to us, that we,
made in your image, conform ourselves to it.
In our own strength
we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder
nor is it fitting for us to try.
But Your mercy reaches from the heavens
through the clouds to the earth below.
You have come to us as a small child,
but you have brought us the greatest of all gifts,
the gift of eternal love
Caress us with Your tiny hands,
embrace us with Your tiny arms
and pierce our hearts with Your soft, sweet cries.
God Can Use Anything, but He Shouldn’t Have to – A Homily for the 26th Sunday of the Year
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In understanding Sunday’s Gospel, we cannot overlook the audience Jesus was
addressing. The text begins, Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of
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