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Today’s readings One of the most important aspects of the spiritual life is the knowledge that we can’t hold on to everything all at once. If we’re holding on to the stuff of this world, we have no way of … Continued
Today’s readings For the Rite of Acceptance Into the Order of Catechumens Worry will absolutely kill us, if we let it. As a pastor and confessor, I hear worry from people all the time. Worry about job issues or money in … Continued
Today’s readings Saint Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of the apostles. He is known to have accompanied Saint Ignatius of Antioch to Rome to confer with Pope Anicetus concerning the celebration of Easter, which was quite … Continued
Today’s readings There’s been a lot of arguing in the Gospels these last couple of days. Yesterday, the disciples were arguing with the scribes when both groups found they were incapable of casting a demon out of a person who … Continued
Today’s readings So the disciples are waiting for Jesus to come down the mountain after the Transfiguration. They have attempted to cure a man’s son from the hold of a demon, but they were apparently unable to do so. This … Continued
Today’s readings “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” The writer of the letter to the Hebrews sums up for us this notion of faith, which can be so difficult to wrap … Continued
You might have been expecting to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day today, but we don’t have Saint Valentine’s day on our current liturgical calendar. Instead today we have the feast of two brothers: Saints Cyril and Methodius. They lived in the … Continued
Today’s readings We’re still in the opening chapters of human history in our first reading, and in these opening chapters we see some of the less beautiful parts of human nature. The first reading reads like an exposition of deadly … Continued
Today’s readings Today’s homily is lectio brevis because our parish mission speaker presented the first of his talks at Mass today. Today, very briefly, I want to talk to you about our need for repentance, reconciliation, and forgiveness. Jesus makes it … Continued
Today’s readings “Blessed are those who fear the Lord,” the Psalmist tells us today. And today as our example of those who fear the Lord, we have two women. And we begin with the creation of the first woman. God … Continued
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