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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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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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Our Lady of Lourdes
Bernadette Soubirous was a sickly young woman. But on February 11, 1858, her entire life changed when a beautiful lady, clothed in white, with a rosary over her arm and a yellow rose on each foot, appeared to her and said, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” In the years since, the site of those wonderful…
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Saint Scholastica, Virgin
Today’s readings Today we celebrate the memorial of Saint Scholastica, who is known as the sister of Saint Benedict. Some traditions speak of them as twins. Pope Saint Gregory the Great tells us that Benedict ruled over both monks and nuns, and it seems as if Saint Scholastica was the prioress of the nuns. So…
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Monday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s readings speak to us about the wonderful, spiritual quality of goodness. We have the creation story, or at least the beginning of it, in which God is not only creating the world and everything in it, but also creating it in goodness. And I think that we can relate to that in…
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The Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I don’t know about you, but I’ve always had sort of a bad feeling when I heard this Gospel reading. I mean, here Simon’s mother-in-law is sick with fever, and the minute she’s cured, they have her up waiting on them. But I love it when a piece of Scripture irritates me, because…
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The Presentation of the Lord
Today’s readings Back in the time that Jesus lived, it was a law that every first-born male in a family was presented to God, given to God to do God’s will. They would come on the fortieth day of the child’s life and present the child, along with a sacrificial offering and they would receive…
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The Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Heaven knows there are a lot of experts out there, or at least people who claim to be experts. That’s why blogs and comments posted on news stories and facebook are so popular: everyone claims to know something about everything. Or at least it seems that way. Certainly, it should give us pause…
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The Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings What are you looking for? That’s the question Jesus asks us today, and it’s a good one. For the disciples who were checking him out, I think it took them aback somewhat. They weren’t expecting that and they honestly didn’t have a ready answer. So instead they do what Jesus usually does and…
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Tuesday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It is always interesting to me how clearly the unclean spirits know who Jesus is. For them, Christ our God inspires fear and rebellion. But even these unclean spirits, hearing his voice, begrudgingly obey. Jesus teaches with authority, as the people standing by admit of him. This is a teaching that cannot be…
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