Musings from the Spiritual Director of Via de Cristo
Walking with Jesus 22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. 23You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:22-23 When [...]
Walking With Jesus Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:21-22. During these days of the rapid spread of the deadly Coronavirus, most of [...]
Walking With Jesus to the Cross “Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD.” Psalm 31:24 Psalm 31 is a song of lament, yet this last verse of Psalm 31 is a word filled with encouragement, a word of faith and hope. Lament does two things [...]
Walking with Jesus Holy Week “I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for Him; in His Word is my hope. My soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.” Psalm 130: 4-5 We, who live in a fast past world are learning a [...]
Walking With Jesus The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are [...]
Walking With Jesus “I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act,” says the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:14 The year was 587 BCE. It was the low point of Israel’s history. Their nation [...]
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10 Water is essential to human life. There have been many examples of controversies over water [...]
Following the reports from the CDC, I, as your National Via de Cristo Spiritual Director, strongly urge each secretariat to consider canceling gatherings to comply with published recommendations. Options are: Suspend all in-person worship, meetings and activities at least through the end of March. Experiment with on-line and phone worship opportunities. Use on-line [...]
Walking With Jesus Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” John 3:3 Why is that old Cinderella story such a favorite? I think it is because it is a story about a young woman in trying circumstances at home, who finally [...]
Walking With Jesus 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ 8The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the [...]
