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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Moses was an immense champion of God. He was given the monumental task of bringing God’s People to the Promised Land. But getting to the goal line and crossing over into the end zone are not the same...
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How is our relationship with God? Do we feel close to him? Is there something in our lives that is getting in the middle of our relationship? Our relationship with God should always be something that...
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Can you keep a secret? I used to have a hard time keeping secrets. I never understood why the Army gave me a top-secret clearance when they knew that I was a long-winded storyteller. Telling a secret...
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Our Responsorial Psalm this Sunday says, “I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” It captures the theme of the readings about our faith journey and the call to deny oneself to follow...
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“Taking a child, Jesus placed it in their midst and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not...
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There was an adept businessman who had accumulated many of the things associated with what passes for modern success. And he was generally good and kind and vaguely grateful for, but mostly proud of,...
View ArticleTwenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our first reading for this Sunday is from Genesis 2:18-24 and it may be familiar to some of you, in that this reading is often used for weddings. The first human, known as Adam, was all alone and was...
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What do we have to do to inherit eternal life? That question is asked to Jesus by an unnamed rich man in today’s gospel. As I am writing this reflection Hurricane Milton is spinning in the Gulf of...
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Twenty-Nineth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In her acceptance speech as a Nobel Laureate for Peace in 1979, Mother Teresa shared a story about kindness and love for her neighbor. One day, a gentleman came to their convent in Calcutta to tell...
View ArticleThirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Are these words familiar to you: “Veni, vidi, vici: I came, I saw, I conquered?” They’re attributed to Julius Caesar after his victory over the kingdom of Pontus. We could put them on the lips of...
View ArticleThirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
The first reading today is from the book of Deuteronomy. This is the fifth of the first five books of the Jewish and Catholic Bible. For Jews, it is known as the Torah or the five books of Moses. The...
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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
In our first reading from 1Kings 17, the prophet Elijah is thirsty and hungry, and the Lord sends him to a Gentile widow to be fed. The Gentile woman however has only a handful of flour and a little...
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The First Reading from the Book of Daniel presents a vision of the end times, a time of great distress, but also a time of hope for the righteous. The passage points to a future where God’s faithful...
View ArticleChrist the King
Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. Each year we celebrate this feast to mark the end of the season of ordinary time and the beginning of Advent, which is four Sundays before...
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