• 00:00 Reflect on God's Kingdom, trust in God's promise, and share in Christ's life and resurrection to overcome challenges.
• 00:55 Embrace the crosses, be peacemakers, and live lives of unity, love, and forgiveness as beloved children of God.

• 00:00 Relationship with Jesus comes from doing the will of God, and God continually calls us back to a close friendship with him.
• 01:07 Turn to God and pray to understand how he wants us to relate to him, following the example of Mary's relationship with the Holy Trinity.

• 00:00 Jesus is seen as a contradiction because he preaches love and forgiveness in a world used to revenge and violence.
• 01:23 Power and riches influence our respect for people, but Jesus teaches that the meek and humble are blessed.
• 01:56 Jesus emphasizes the importance of spiritual family over biological family, facing opposition from religious authorities.
• 03:03 People who choose to be honest and avoid corruption are often questioned and ridiculed in a society where bribery and corruption are common.
• 03:31 Follow Jesus and be a sign of contradiction, even if others don't understand.
• 04:02 Our beauty comes from within, whether we see it as divine intervention or mere coincidence, but we cannot be both for and against Christ.
• 04:32 Remain with Christ and do good, even if it means being a sign of contradiction to the times.

2021 Archive / Recent Reflections

• 00:00 God's love for us is unwavering, even in the face of our sins, and draws us near to Him.
• 01:16 Trusting in God's word helps us overcome temptation and navigate life with his strength, not our own.
• 02:10 God desires us to remain close to him, as Paul confirms in his letter to the Corinthians, and Jesus promises a place for us in his father's house for eternity.
• 03:02 Jesus invites us to stay with him, despite the accusations and demands of the crowds.
• 03:41 Jesus doesn't get discouraged by lack of faith, uses adversity to beckon unbelievers to be part of his family.
• 04:16 Rejoice in God's unconditional love, which chose to save us and endures death on the cross for us to spend eternity with him.

• 00:00 Jesus addresses the idea of division, emphasizing the importance of unity within the church and families.
• 00:59 Jesus redefines family as those who hear the word of God.
• 01:30 Walk in the spirit, do God's will, and be united to defeat accusations and have unity with those who love Jesus.

• 00:00 Adam blames Eve for eating the forbidden fruit in the classic Genesis reading.
• 01:29 Blaming others for our actions is not new, as seen in the story of Adam and Eve.
• 02:17 The world is already full of tension and blame, but our real paradise is in heaven.
• 04:19 Helping others builds faith and prepares for heaven, despite controversial interpretations of the gospel passage.
• 05:01 Mary's response to the angel Gabriel and Jesus' family's reaction to his success.
• 06:14 Jesus challenges the traditional concept of family, emphasizing that those who do the will of God are his true family, even though his own family rejects and misunderstands him.
• 07:45 Family can be understood differently and validly, and for Jesus, family is those who do the will of God with you, so we need to leave room for different understandings of family.
• 09:29 Reflect on the richness of the readings and consider what to take away from them.