How God Writes
They say that "God writes straight with crooked lines." As I look at life, crooked lines abound. Somewhere in there is a word that sometimes is The Word, the one made flesh. Perhaps the words on these pages will help as you follow the lines of your life.Christ in the Desert
Sufficient unto today
I pray for the grace
To be who I am today,
To be where I am today,
To be with the people
Whom God has placed
in my life today:Without judgment,
Without resentment,
Without expectation.In loving acceptance,
In trusting anticipation,
In faith-filled hope,
May I savor the gift of today.Fr. M. Keith LaBove
The Church in Abiquiu
Author Archives: klabove
Ash Wednesday
Readings On Thursday, April 5th, we will be gathering in our Church to celebrate the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. On the following afternoon, we will once again come together to mark the Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion. The … Continue reading
Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Readings Adulterers!Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God?Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Once more, they did not understand the saying. … Continue reading
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings This week’s bulletin article is available here. The homily for the Sunday is available in audio format.
Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings This week we have been reading from the Letter of James, and today we reach a passage which was key in one of the great controversies of Christian history. At the heart of the Protestant Reformation was the question, … Continue reading
Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings Peter said to him in reply,“You are the Christ.” Give to Peter all the credit that is due him. He somehow came to see that this Jesus of Nazareth whom they had been traveling with was actually the Christ. … Continue reading
Memorial of Saint Cyril, monk, and Saint Methodius, Bishop
Readings “Watch out,guard against the leaven of the Phariseesand the leaven of Herod.” The poor disciples. So often they just don’t seem to get it. They thought Jesus was talking about the bread. And we shouldn’t be too hard on … Continue reading
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings “Then he left them, got into the boat again,and went off to the other shore.” He just turned around and walked away. He did not give they what they requested, or rather what they demanded. The Pharisees were looking … Continue reading
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings This week’s bulletin article is available here. The homily for the Sunday is available in audio format.
Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin
Readings “But the more he ordered them not to,the more they proclaimed it.” Mark tells us a story of a crowd bringing to Jesus a man who was deaf and mute. After the man was healed, he says that in … Continue reading
Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs
Readings “As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.” They recognized him. But what kind of recognition was this? Given the fact that they brought the sick to him, it would seem that they recognized Jesus as the … Continue reading
