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The Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings You’ll often hear me say that the Liturgy of the Word for these summer Ordinary Time Sundays is designed to offer us a kind of toolbox for living our Christian discipleship. And that’s important because discipleship isn’t an easy thing to live, and it would be far easier to just throw it aside…
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Independence Day
Today’s readings: Isaiah 57:15-19 | Philippians 4:6-9 | John 14:23-29 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,…
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The Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings There’s a little Christian Science church in the town where I grew up, on Main Street, just north of the downtown area. They don’t anymore, but they used to list their upcoming sermon topic, followed by the line “All are welcome.” Imagine my surprise when one day, the topic was going to be…
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The Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings On March 4th, in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States, for the first of four terms. As he began his presidency, the country was in economic crisis, mired as it was in the Great Depression. There were all kinds of concerns in the country at…
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The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
Today’s readings Today we celebrate a feast that is a bit unusual for us. When we celebrate a saint’s day, it is usually celebrated on the feast of their death, not their birth. But today we gather to celebrate the birth of a saint, Saint John the Baptist, and the fact that we’re celebrating his…
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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings In the summer of my first year of seminary, the diocese sent me to Mexico to learn Spanish. This time next week, I’ll be wishing that worked a lot better than it did! I have forgotten, unfortunately, a lot of what I learned, but I’ll never forget the first day. The first day…
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Friday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings This morning we have to wrestle with the question: is there something in my life that distracts me from living my life as God intended that I need to cut out? It’s a ruthless image that we find in our Gospel reading: gouge out an eye, cut off a hand – all of…
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Thursday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Would that we all would be, as St. Paul said, transformed from glory into glory. But the problem is, we get caught up in all the wrong kinds of things. Which is exactly what he was cautioning the Corinthians against, and what Jesus was condemning the Scribes and Pharisees for doing in today’s…
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Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Today’s readings I think I can always remember my mother, and my grandmothers, praying to St. Anthony anytime something was lost. There’s even the popular little prayer, “Tony, Tony, please come ’round, something’s lost and must be found.” This everyday need to find lost objects has made St. Anthony one of the most popular saints.…
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Monday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Sometimes God’s blessings can be challenging. For example, we might not think that those who are meek and those who mourn are blessed. And we certainly wouldn’t celebrate the blessings of those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, would we? It’s even more challenging when we remember that the word “blessed”…
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