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Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Can you imagine how we would feel if we came to Mass one day and found this beautiful Church demolished and in ruins? I think we’d all be devastated and feel hurt, abandoned, and lost in some ways. And that’s just exactly how the original readers of Luke’s Gospel felt. The glorious Temple…
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Saturday of the Thirty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings You know, this Gospel reading is filled with all sorts of off-putting comments, isn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I bristle at the thought of comparing God to a dishonest judge! But that’s not the point here. Of course, Jesus means that God is so much greater than the dishonest judge,…
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Thursday of the Thirty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Let’s be honest; we want it to be easy, this spiritual life, this journey to the kingdom. We look longingly for signs that we’re headed the right way; we want more than anything to know we’ll end up in the right place. And so we pay attention, sometimes, when people say, “Look, there…
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Friday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings As many times as we may hear the parable in today’s Gospel, I think we always end up scratching our heads and wondering what point Jesus was making, precisely. It’s just so unlike anything we would expect him to preach, this idea of the steward basically cheating his employer and making friends with…
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Thursday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time
It’s all a matter of perspective – that’s true in most things, but most especially true in our relationship with God. Today’s Gospel gives us a glimpse at that. Jesus asks, “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after…
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All Souls Remembrance Mass
Tonight, we have come together to do what the writer of the books of Maccabees insist is a holy and pious thing: to pray for the souls of the dead. We have come together also to do what the Liturgy of the Rite of Christian Burial tells us to do: to pray also for ourselves. …
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Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop
Eight years ago today, I was ordained a transitional deacon, on my way to becoming a priest. For me it was a very significant day: it was the feast of Saint Charles Borromeo, and I was being ordained at the Saint Charles Borromeo Pastoral Center. So I feel like I have a bit of connection…
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The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
One of the deep mysteries of the human experience lies in the realities of life and death. Everyone has, or will, experience the death of loved ones, sometimes after a long life, sometimes far too soon, always with feelings of sadness, regret, pain, grief and perhaps even anger or confusion. That’s how grief works. It…
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The Solemnity of All Saints (Evening Mass)
How would you react if someone called you a saint? We hear that, sometimes, don’t we? When we do something good for someone, sometimes they’ll say, “Oh, thank you, you’re a saint!” But how does that make you feel? Do you bristle a bit and think, “not me!”? I think we all have that kind…
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For All the Saints
Today is the feast that always brings to mind one of my favorite hymns: “For All the Saints.” Whenever we sing it, I just get a little glimpse of what the heavenly worship might be like on that great day when God brings all things into one, and the last enemy is conquered!
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