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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 finding it to be good. And I think that we can relate to that…
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The Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings I think today’s Gospel reading has some intriguing images for us. Salt and light are basic things, but they certainly are things with which we can relate, things we experience on a daily basis. Salt and light are things that have an effect on everything around them. Add a little salt to some…
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Saint John Bosco, priest
Today’s readings Saint John Bosco was a master catechist who knew the importance of living and teaching and handing on the faith; he was a man who lived his faith with conviction. He was a priest who was concerned with the whole person of the young people he taught: he wanted them to fill both…
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The Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings We have a pretty late Lent this year. Ash Wednesday is not until March 9th. What is really nice about that is that it gives us a little more ordinary time in the winter, which we often don’t get. Sometimes we rush from Christmas to Ash Wednesday and barely get to breathe. So…
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor of the Church
Today’s readings Mass with the school children: I have a feeling that today’s Gospel reading is one that Saint Thomas Aquinas probably loved. Saint Thomas was known for the way that he explained the faith: he did it systematically, breaking down complex ideas into smaller parts so that we can understand them. So then this…
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Saint Francis de Sales
Today’s readings Saint Francis de Sales was born in the Savoy region of France-Italy in 1567. His priesthood had him work diligently for the restoration of Catholicism in his homeland, reclaiming it from the clutches of the protestant reformation. He became bishop of Geneva, and was known for his writings, work and example. He says…
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The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings Close to twenty years ago now, my home parish put on a production of the musical Godspell, and I ended up being part of the cast. If you’ve ever seen the musical, you know that it is based on the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel that we are reading during this Church year.…
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Tuesday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings We know how the interactions between Jesus and the Pharisees affected the Pharisees. They resented everything Jesus said and did, and sought occasion to put him out of the picture. But I cannot help but think that for Jesus, these occasions had to be rather frustrating. Here are the most educated of the…
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Saint Anthony, abbot
Today’s readings When Saint Anthony – and this is not the Saint Anthony who helps us find lost things – was about eighteen years old, his parents died, and left him to care for his young sister and the family home. They did not leave him destitute, however, and they were rather well-to-do. Saint Athanasius…
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Saturday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In today’s Gospel, we have the epiphany of Jesus manifested as one who identifies with sinners. That is not, of course, to say that he was a sinner; quite the contrary, we know that Jesus was like us in all things but sin. But today we see that he is certainly concerned with…
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