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Monday of the Third Week of Lent
Today’s readings Why is the human heart so opposed to hearing the truth and acting on it? I remember as a child I used to hate it when my parents would tell me something and turn out to be right. If the truth be told, I probably still struggle with that a little today. Who…
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The Word from Father Pat
“The Word from Father Pat” is the name of my bulletin column. I’ll be posting these from time to time. “Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.” Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I have been enjoying, as I often do, the Scripture readings that we have during Lent. These readings tell us what…
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The Third Sunday of Lent [B]
Today’s readings Most of us have probably experienced at least one time in our lives when it seemed like our whole world was turned upside-down. Maybe it was the loss of a job, or the illness or death of a loved one, or any of a host of other issues. It probably felt like the…
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Monday of the Second Week of Lent
Today’s readings Aren’t the Lenten readings challenging? They’re supposed to be. They speak of what it means to be a disciple. We have to be willing to have our whole world turned upside-down; to do something completely against our nature; to let God take control of the life we want so much to control. “For…
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The Second Sunday of Lent [B] – Children’s Mass
Today’s readings This weekend’s Gospel is a little strange, I think, maybe a little hard to understand. We have Peter, James and John go up with Jesus to the top of the mountain, where Jesus is changed in appearance. He becomes radiant and his clothes become dazzling white, like the garment here on the rock…
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The Second Sunday of Lent [B]
Today’s readings You know, that last line of today’s Gospel reading always gets me thinking, “well what did they think ‘rising from the dead’ meant?” Of course that’s easy for us to say, with the eyes of people who have some idea of how the story ends; but Peter, James and John didn’t have that…
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Pastoral Care of the Sick: Anointing of the Sick During Mass
Today’s readings: 1 Kings 19:1-8 | Psalm 34 | James 5:13-16 | Mark 2:1-12 I first met Tom probably a few weeks after I started my first assignment as a priest at St. Raphael’s back in the summer of 2006. He was a young man, probably around my age, and was suffering the effects of…
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Monday of the First Week of Lent
Today’s readings Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. People often balk at the mere suggestion of being called to personally holiness. Oftentimes, this is wrapped up in a misplaced and false humility, that kind of humility that says that since I’m good for nothing, there is no way I can even…
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Men’s Ministry Lenten Breakfast Talk: How Do Men Observe Lent?
Last night, I was in church for the Living Stations. The junior high kids were leading it and they did an awesome job. They even got me to shed a few tears along the way. I’m half Italian: we just do that! But what was it that got to me and caused those tears: 1.…
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Ash Wednesday
Today’s readings Behold: now is the acceptable time! Behold: now is the day of salvation! We have come here today for all sorts of reasons. Lots of us may still have the remnants of old and bad teaching that you have to come to Church on Ash Wednesday or something horrible will happen to you,…
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