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Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Tme
Today’s readings Some people would say that Jesus was a peaceful man. Saying that is really misunderstanding Jesus and who he was. Because peace wasn’t necessarily his primary interest, at least not peace in the way that we often see it. Because sometimes I think we misread what peace is supposed to be. We might…
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Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It has often struck me that, the economy of our nation and the world being as precarious as it is, that being rich in what matters to God is more important than ever. With all the bad financial news out there, who among us hasn’t had the sinking feeling that this world’s riches…
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Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time: Day of Service
Today’s readings Our Gospel today warns us of coming persecutions. At some point, we will all be dragged before synagogues and rulers and authorities of some sort, and we will have to give an account of what we believe. Now for us, it’s not going to be so literal, obviously. But we may have to…
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Ss. Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf and Companions, Martyrs
Today’s readings Mass for the school children. When I was your age, I used to like watching movies about the “wild west,” and playing cowboys and Indians. It was fun to think about our history in those days and to re-enact what we thought it must have been like. But the truth is, the history…
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Saint Teresa of Avila, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Today’s readings: Romans 8:22-27; Psalm 19:8-11; John 15:1-8 Saint Teresa was a virgin, mystic, nun, reformer of the Carmelite order, and, with Saint John of the Cross, foundress of the Discalced Carmelites. When she was a girl, her father sent her for a time to live in an Augustinian convent, until she became ill about…
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Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time [B]: Time, Talent & Treasure
Today’s readings I’m speaking at all the Masses this weekend, and I know what you’re thinking: here comes the money talk. All he ever does is talk about money. I hope you don’t really feel that way, because we do try to keep all the money talk to a minimum. We do, however, want to…
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Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Yesterday, the fiftieth anniversary of the calling of the Second Vatican Council, marked the beginning of a Year of Faith that Pope Benedict called for in his encyclical, Porta Fidei. In that document, he calls on all of us Catholics to throw open the doors of faith, to rediscover who we are as…
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Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Go and do likewise.” What a wonderful instruction for Jesus to give us this morning. “Go and do likewise.” Jesus is telling us that those who hear the Gospel must also live it, or it is useless. Those who do not go out and do likewise are like the foolish Galatians in today’s…
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Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time [B] – Respect Life Sunday
Today’s readings If you’ve been to any number of Church weddings, you have probably heard today’s first reading, and part of the Gospel proclaimed. Obviously we usually leave out the part about divorce, but these readings are quite popular for weddings. The reason, of course, is that the story is about how man and woman…
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Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Pride and presumption are insidious sins. They make any kind of grace impossible, for they even deny that grace is needed or wanted. If we have no need of a Savior, then no relationship with God is even possible. And not having a relationship with God is something that theologians like to call…
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