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Saturday of the Twenty-second Week of Ordinary Time
So what was at stake here? Was it the Sabbath? Not really. For Jesus, there wasn’t such a thing as a Sabbath rest from his mission of healing, nd teaching, and bringing people to salvation. So as he walked along with his disciples, it didn’t bother him that they were “working” by picking heads of…
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Thursday of the Twenty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I always think it’s interesting that whenever we see Peter and the others doing what they grew up doing – that is, fishing – they are never doing any good at it unless Jesus is around. Today’s Gospel is no different. Here Jesus comes along and sits in his boat, and tells Simon…
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The Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings For each of the deadly sins, there is also a life-giving virtue. Today, our readings focus on humility, which is the life-giving virtue that is the antidote to pride. Of the seven deadly sins, pride is usually considered the original and the most serious of the sins. Pride was the sin that caused…
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Saturday of the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The Gospel readings these past few days have warned of rather dire consequences for those who don’t live the Gospel message. This section of Matthew’s Gospel spells out the urgency of the call to discipleship and the nearness of the Kingdom of God. Yesterday, the foolish virgins were left out of the kingdom,…
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The Passion of Saint John the Baptist
Today’s readings What we are celebrating in today’s feast is the fact that prison bars cannot silence truth. John the Baptist was not asked to renounce his faith; indeed Herod was probably very interested in John’s faith and may have even asked him about it on occasion. Not that he wanted to convert, mind you,…
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Monday of the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s gospel has Jesus taking the Scribes and Pharisees to task for forgetting what is really holy and treating things as sacred while ignoring God who is holiness itself. Apparently, they thought that swearing an oath by the gold of the temple was more binding than an oath simply sworn on the temple…
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The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On this, the octave day of the Assumption of Mary, we celebrate another great Marian feast, that of the Queenship of Mary. Today we celebrate the fifth glorious mystery of the rosary: Mary is crowned Queen of heaven and earth. The Queenship of Mary has been celebrated ever since Pope Pius XII instituted this celebration…
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Monday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings So the question today is, what is it that holds us back? The rich young man seemed to have it all together: he acknowledged Jesus as the good teacher, so he must have been familiar with what Jesus said and did. He says he kept all the commandments, so he certainly had a…
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Saturday of the Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” My family has had a plaque with that very verse on it for as long as I can remember. This has always been one of my favorite quotes from Scripture. But it certainly is a hard thing to say, and Joshua makes…
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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today’s readings The tradition of the Assumption of Mary dates back to the very earliest days of the Church, all the way back to the days of the apostles. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 tells us that, after Mary’s death, the apostles opened the tomb, finding it empty, and concluded that she had been…
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