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On Imagining the Mystery of Christ

On Imagining the Mystery of Christ 1-7-24 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 60:1-6 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples, but the Lord will arise upon you, and...

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On How We Come To Know

On How We Come to Know December 31. 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. Luke 2:...

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On Falling In Love With God

On Falling in Love With God December 24, 2023 Isaiah 50: 4-5 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened...

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On Mother Mary

On Mother Mary December 17, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Luke 1: 26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he...

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On Preparing the Way

On Preparing the Way December 10, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Isaiah 40: 1, 3-5 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted...

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On Contextual Relevance

On Contextual Relevance First Sunday of Advent: Condensed version of Luke, Chapters 1-3 Traceymay Kalvaitis The birth of every baby is part of a larger story, the story of our parents, their parents, and events in the world that shape the culture of the time. I was...

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On Mitigation the Suffering of God

On Mitigating the Suffering of God November 26, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Matthew 25: 31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will...

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On Leaning In

November 19, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Matthew 25: 14-30 Jesus said to them, “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his...

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On the Light of Hope

On the Light of Hope November 12, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Matthew 25: 1-13 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their...

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The Cost of Justice and the Reward of Peace

On the Cost of Justice and the Reward of Peace November 5, 2023 Traceymay Kalvaitis Micah 3: 9-12 Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity, who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with...

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