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"The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5)

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Keep Your Feet

A Homily for Christmas Day 2025 My feet are ugly! How's that for the beginning of a Christmas Day homily? But it's true. My feet are ugly. I have my mother's bunions and my father's spindly toes. And the older I get the more my mother's bunions push my father's spindly toes into an awkward … Continue reading Keep Your Feet

Posted on December 25, 2025 by frjcoopTagged beautiful-feet, bible, christianity, christmas, faith, god, incarnation, jesus. Leave a comment

Born from the Gaze of God

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I must believe that you love to look at who I am becoming. I must believe your eyes; the nakedness of your "I love you," that strips me naked. Just like Jesus on the cross; surrendered to your gaze alone and trusting desperately. Certain he is being sought, certain he is being found. I must believe another view of me exists -- the profile you see. I am learning this! -- Blessed Christophe Lebreton, ocso

"The light shines in the darkness. Thus, the darkness glorifies God, and the light shines in it, not so much as opposites placed next to each other, but rather as opposites placed within each other."

"Commentary on John" by Meister Eckhart

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