Tag: Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis

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  Act As If God Did Not Exist

  February 7, 2014

  When someone comes to you and asks for help, then you must not say to him with a pious mouth, ‘Have trust and cast your care on God!’ What you must do is act as if God did not exist, as if in the whole world there were only one person who could help the Read more
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  He is Always Coming to Us – A Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17

  January 12, 2014

  “And do you come to me?” (From Matthew 3:13-17, Feast of the Baptism of our Lord, the First Sunday after the Epiphany) That’s the greeting Jesus receives from John. John almost seems surprised, taken aback, that Jesus has come to him. John has been in the wilderness preaching and baptizing. “Repent,” he says, “for the Read more
• The Choice, A Reflection on the Feast of the Holy Innocents

  December 28, 2012

  Just a few days into Christmas and the liturgical calendar confronts us with the Feast of the Holy Innocents. “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under” (Mt. 2:16). The Read more
• The Choice – A Reflection on the Feast of the Holy Innocents

  December 28, 2011

  Just a few days into Christmas and the liturgical calendar confronts us with the Feast of the Holy Innocents. “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under” (Mt. 2:16). Read more