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Today’s readings St. Ignatius was all set to accomplish great things in the military when his leg was badly injured by a canon ball. As he was convalescing, he asked for romantic novels to read. But nothing like that was … Continued
Today’s readings You’ve probably heard me say that these summer weeks of Ordinary Time give us a wonderful look at how to live the Christian Life. I always say that the Scriptures give us a kind of “Discipleship Toolbox” that … Continued
Today’s readings We don’t know much, well anything really, about Saints Joachim and Anne. Even in the Gospels where the ancestry of Jesus is traced, nothing is really said about Mary’s family, so we don’t have names that tell us … Continued
Today’s readings “Can you drink the chalice of which I am going to drink?” What does that even mean for us? We know what Jesus’ chalice was like: it led him through sorrow, and abandonment, and ultimately to the cross. … Continued
Today’s readings We’ve just had this Gospel reading in the Sunday readings in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d touch on a few verses that I didn’t go into in that homily. And these are some of … Continued
Today’s readings Today’s feast of St. Mary Magdalene is a good opportunity to set the record straight. Mary Magdalene was not the woman caught in adultery, nor was she the unnamed “sinful woman” who anointed the feet of Jesus in … Continued
Today’s readings I think we’d all admit this has been a bit of a rough week. We have heard of escalating tensions in the middle east, and very dangerous issues in the Russia/Ukraine situation. Then a plane was shot down … Continued
Today’s readings Today’s Scripture readings have some “sound bytes” that I have found most meaningful in my prayer life. Isaiah’s profession of faith today says, “For it is you who have accomplished all we have done.” What a beautiful thing … Continued
Today’s readings Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin woman. Her parents died in a smallpox epidemic – which left Kateri herself disfigured and half blind – when she was just four years old. She went … Continued
Today’s readings Many of us have planted gardens, and maybe you’ve put in some plants this year. That was really Father Steve’s thing, and my allergies kind of get in the way of all that, so I’m not doing that … Continued
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