IV domingo de Pascua (Domingo del Buen Pastor) – 3 de mayo de 2020 Santa Margarita María – Wichita, KS Hechos 2:14a, 36-41; Salmo 22:1-6; 1 Pedro…… Read more “Arriesgarse con este pastor”
Author: Fr. Michael Brungardt
Fr. Michael Brungardt (S.T.B, M.Div.) is a priest of the Diocese of Wichita and the pastor at St. Paul in Lyons, Holy Name of Jesus in Bushton, and Holy Trinity in Little River, Kansas.
“It must be groundhog day!”
We have put our own humanity into “quarantine” long before this physical quarantine ever started. We have told ourself and our friends and our children many lies about who and what we are. We have tried to twist reality into what we want it to be, instead of letting reality hit us in the face and recognize that God is really present…in reality…and only in reality.
The Shape of Mercy
Are we the same people that encountered the Risen Lord? Have we encountered the Lord? And do we live out of this encounter? Does this encounter shape our entire life?
La forma de la misericordia
¿Somos las mismas personas que se encontraron con el Señor resucitado? ¿Nos hemos encontrado con el Señor? ¿Y vivimos de este encuentro? ¿Este encuentro da forma a toda nuestra vida?
To Make All Things New (not Normal)
Something I hear a lot lately is, “Man, I can’t wait until things go back to normal!” But Easter is not normal. It is not. Easter, the Resurrection of Christ—this is the beginning of something new.
A Holy Week That Is a Little Too Real
Like Christ, we live this Holy Week face-to-face with the one inevitable: our death.
Una semana santa que es demasiado real
Como Cristo, vivimos esta Semana Santa cara a cara con la inevitable: nuestra muerte.
What’s Happened?
But what has changed? Fundamentally, nothing. But personally, we have realized that we are powerless, that we are not as in control as we thought we were. The house and the clothes and the food and the parties and the “freedom”—we have realized that we don’t control as much as we thought.
Qué pasó?
¿Pero qué ha cambiado? Básicamente, nada. Pero personalmente, nos hemos dado cuenta de que somos impotentes, que no tenemos el control como pensábamos. La casa, la ropa, la comida, las fiestas y la “ibertad”—nos hemos dado cuenta de que no controlamos tanto como pensábamos.
Transfiguration of Suffering
As Christians, as “little Christs,” we do not get to skip all of the suffering. And Jesus never said that that was part of the deal. No, he said, “Deny yourself, take up your cross, follow me.” But as the Transfiguration reveals: our suffering is not in vain. Death does not have the final word.
The Beggar 