Devotions from Living The Lord’s Prayer by Albert Haase “The way toward God is the way of downward mobility.  St Benedict said, “Our proud attempts at upward climbing will really bring us down, whereas to step downward in humility is the way to lift our spirit up towards God.” This  means that we need to…

Devotions  from Living the Lord’s Prayer by Albert Haase “To hallow God’s name is to walk the way of humility as we adore God’s presence, with the awareness of our sinfulness.” Names are sacred . A person’s relationship to us is expressed by the name he calls us. Names express the level of familiarity and…

I like to take prayer walks and often go a couple miles in one direction before turning around to come back home again. One day as I was walking and about to turn around, it was like a picture of my spiritual journey…   My life is now more  than  half over and  I’m on the…

  Devotions from Living the Lord’s Prayer by Haase Because God has taken on flesh and blood in the incarnation, we Christians are challenge to adopt a deeply contemplative vision of each other.  “We are called to look beyond the superficial appearances of hairstyles and first impressions, to see and reverence in our neighbor another dwelling…

Devotions from “Living the Lord’s Prayer” by Albert Haase There are no words to adequately describe our God and our limited understanding can not reach the heights of all that He is.  God is love but He is also so much more than what the human word Love means. From the words of St. Francis:…

Devotions from Albert Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer Christian love is expresses in so many ways: friendship, acts of kindness, sharing our time, talents or treasures etc.  Hospitality is one practical way to express love for our neighbor and reflects our love for our Father. Part of hospitality is simply welcoming another sister or…

 Devotions from Albert Haase,s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer Love of God and love of neighbor go hand in hand.  One love complements and completes the other. In John 4:20 it says we cannot love God whom we have not seen if we do not love our brother or sister whom we have seen. In…

Devotions based on Albert Haase’s  book, “Living the Lord’s Prayer Each Sunday when we go to church we find as many different images of God as there are people in the congregation.  Each of us has painted an image of God on our heart that is framed from our past experiences and shaped by our…

Devotions from Albert Haases’ book, Living the Lord’s Prayer. Haase is a priest, spiritual director, and former missionary to China When a disciple asked Jesus “Teach us to pray” Jesus didn’t respond with a method or technique but with words that capture the essence of His teaching and ministry. Much of the time when we…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book Finding Our Way Home Heaven is “Where we find what we want, what we have always wanted.”  WE have always wanted to be home, surrounded in the security of perfect love and understanding. Sometimes we obscure this great good, this deep longing of our heart, by filling our lives with…