Enkindle: Family Scripture Reflections

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Enkindle 90 – 01.23.22 – No Benchwarmers Jan 19, 2022

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In this reflection for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022, Kristen Fisher challenges us to step up and get off the bench! We each have a unique and particular way that Jesus is calling us to participate in the way that he sets people free.

Jesus has a big fat world saving mission. And when we were baptized, we became part of that mission. And that mission became part of you and me. Sitting and watching from the sidelines is never an option in the church. Everyone plays on this team. Everyone has a role and everyone participates in Jesus’s great mission.

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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Enkindle 89 – 01.16.22 – Everything to Jesus Jan 12, 2022

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In this reflection for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022, Kristen Fisher reminds us that we can go to Jesus with every care and concern, and that our Mother Mary trusts her son so much that she can take these things to him for us.

Mary wants to help us, and she is able to help us. She wants to take all of our cares and our fears and our hopes and our dreams and our worries, all of it to Jesus. There’s nothing too big or too small. Mary and Jesus care about all of it.

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Enkindle 88 – 01.09.22 – Ultimate Crossover Event Jan 07, 2022

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In this reflection for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Javier Plumey takes a look at the incredible event of the Baptism of the Lord, and reminds us that just as the baptism of Jesus introduced to the world Jesus as the son of God, so too does our own baptism announce to the world, physical and spiritual, that we are children of the Father.

From St. Gregory:

“Illumination [baptism] is the splendour of souls, the conversion of the life, the question put to the Godward conscience. It is the aid to our weakness, the renunciation of the flesh, the following of the Spirit, the fellowship of the Word, the improvement of the creature, the overwhelming of sin, the participation of light, the dissolution of darkness. It is the carriage to God, the dying with Christ, the perfecting of the mind, the bulwark of Faith, the key of the Kingdom of heaven, the change of life, the removal of slavery, the loosing of chains, the remodelling of the whole man. Why should I go into further detail? Illumination is the greatest and most magnificent of the Gifts of God. For just as we speak of the Holy of Holies, and the Song of Songs, as more comprehensive and more excellent than others, so is this called Illumination, as being more holy than any other illumination which we possess.”
St. Gregory the Theologian, Oration 40.1

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The Baptism of the Lord

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Enkindle 87 – 01.02.22 – Light in the Darkness Dec 27, 2021

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In this reflection for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, 2022, Meg Hunter-Kilmer inspires us to imagine the scene at the manger when the magi came in fulfillment of prophecies, and to gaze in awe at the Light which has been brought into the world: the light of Jesus himself.

This epiphany, let us come before Jesus and the Blessed Sacrament at Mass and worship him as the magi did, as the shepherds did, as the angels did. Let’s kneel before him with all the wonder and awe of Bethlehem, and let’s offer him the gift of our lives saying, “Jesus, I want to belong completely to you.”

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The Epiphany of the Lord

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Enkindle 86 – 12.26.21 – Bear with One Another Dec 23, 2021

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In this reflection for the Feast of the Holy Family, Fr. Erik Arnold reminds us that the family is the place where we really learn how to love, and that the Holy Spirit can help us let the peace of Jesus control our hearts and to learn how to bear with one another.

God designed our families that way. So don’t get upset that it’s hard to love your family. God made the family the school of love. And sometimes our classes in this school of love can be really difficult. Today, let’s pray that we will learn from the Holy Spirit to let the peace of Jesus control our hearts and to learn how to bear with one another.

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The Feast of the Holy Family

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Enkindle 85 – 12.25.21 – Christmas 2021 Dec 21, 2021

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In this reflection for the Nativity of the Lord, Christmas, 2021, Colin MacIver shows how each of the different sets of Gospels for Christmas reveal a unique aspect of the mystery of Christmas for us to reflect on this year.

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The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) – All Readings

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Enkindle 84 – 12.19.21 – Part of the Story Dec 15, 2021

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In this reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Kristen Fisher encourages us to see how blessed we are to be a part of the story that started thousands of years ago and continues to this day–the story of how God draws us ever closer to himself.

He is inviting us to come and be part of that story. The greatest story ever told–of a baby born in Bethlehem to a teenage girl from Nazareth. Let us pray in these last days of Advent, as we get ready for Christmas, let us pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal to you that. How we are invited to come and be part of his great story.

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The Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2021

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Enkindle 83 – 12.12.21 – Unsensible Joy Dec 07, 2021

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In this reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, 2021, Kristen Fisher shows how the Gospel this week is all about Joy, which doesn’t come from having stuff, and that we can only get it from the Lord as he comes to dwell in our midst, not just in the world in general, but in the very depths of each of us.

We find in the lives of the saints all throughout the past 2000 years, we find sick people, imprisoned people, suffering people full of joy, because joy is not about what’s going on around us. It’s about who has come to live inside of us. This is the whole point. Jesus is coming. He came at Christmas 2000 years ago.

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The Third Sunday of Advent, 2021

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Enkindle 82 – 12.05.21 – Make Straight a Path Dec 01, 2021

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In this reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, 2021, Colin MacIver shows us how this week’s readings are both a message of hope, and a challenge for us to respond to the Holy Spirit in whatever community we have to make straight a path for his coming into our hearts this Christmas.

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The Second Sunday of Advent, 2021

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Enkindle 81 – 11.28.21 – Awake to God Nov 24, 2021

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In this reflection for the First Sunday of Advent, 2021, Fr. Erik Arnold points us to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as an example of how to be awake to God and be ready for this season of Advent.

Jesus is telling us to avoid that sin that makes us sleepy spiritually, otherwise his coming to us in Bethlehem and now in prayer, on the sacraments and at the end of time will catch us off guard and we won’t be ready. If sin makes us sleepy, confession wakes us up with God’s mercy. It nudges our hearts, shakes us out of the sleepiness of sin, and makes us attentive to God in a new way so that we can love him and love our neighbor receiving God’s mercy in the sacrament wakes us up.

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The First Sunday of Advent, 2021

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