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Saints Cyril and Methodius
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 ninth century in an area of Greece inhabited by many Slavs, and eventually they became…
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Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
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 sins, and these sins have continued to plague humanity ever since. We start with envy,…
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The Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
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 very clear in today’s Gospel that the spirit of the law is worth focusing on,…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
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 has created all the creatures of the earth: land, water and air, yet none of…
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Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Over the past two days, we have heard, once again, the wonderful story of the creation of the world. It’s not meant to be a science textbook or a timetable of events, of course, but instead delivers the message that all of creation was set in motion by our God, and that all…
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Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs
We have been hearing from the martyrs a lot recently. On Friday, we remembered Saint Blaise, a bishop and martyr who is the patron saint of those with illnesses, specifically of the throat. Yesterday, if it had not been a Sunday, we would have remembered Saint Agatha, a virgin and martyr who was put to…
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The Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings One of my professors in seminary used to tell us all the time, “Brothers, Christianity looks like something, the Christian looks like something.” His point was that if we are Christians, we needed to conform ourselves to Christ, to be more like Christ, to do what Christ called us to do in this…
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Saint John Bosco, Priest
Saint John Bosco was a master catechist and a priest who was concerned with the whole person of the young people he taught: he wanted them to fill both their minds and their souls. John was encouraged to enter the priesthood for the specific purpose of teaching young boys and forming them in the faith. …
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Monday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings We could look at today’s Gospel reading as an interesting miracle story of Jesus casting a demon out of a long-possessed man. But I think we should dig a little deeper than that this morning. Because many of us, I think, have to tangle with the unclean spirit from the tombs that infests…
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The Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings We have a pretty late Lent this year. Ash Wednesday is not until March 1st. What is really nice about that is that it gives us a little more ordinary time in the winter, which we often don’t get. Sometimes we rush from Christmas to Ash Wednesday and barely get to breathe. So…
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