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Saturday of the Twenty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The question Saint Paul asks the Corinthians in today’s first reading is a challenging one: what do you have that you have not received? For us in a society steeped in entitlement, this question rings like an accusation. We may be justly proud of what we have learned and achieved and accomplished, because…
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Pope Saint Gregory the Great
Today’s readings Saint Gregory showed a great deal of promise at a young age. He had a stellar political career, becoming prefect of Rome before the age of thirty. After a short time, he resigned his office and dedicated his life to the priesthood. He joined a Benedictine monastery and became abbot, founding several other…
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Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Saint Paul reminds us today that we are God’s co-workers, God’s field, God’s building. He is constantly creating and re-creating the world through the work of the Holy Spirit. He may be planting the seed of something great in us, he may be asking us to water that seed and care for its…
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Monday of the Twenty-second week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The defense St. Paul was making to the Corinthians in today’s first reading describes a way of living that might be very useful for us to consider. Rather than caring about what people thought of him and proclaiming the word in a powerful way, he instead resolved to keep himself focused on Jesus…
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Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time [C]
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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Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Jesus had his skirmishes with the Scribes and Pharisees, but today he seems particularly exasperated with them. And who could blame him? They of all people should have known who Jesus was and should have been on board with what he was trying to accomplish. But instead, they settle for the mere appearance…
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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 Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time [C]
Today’s readings In my last assignment, at St. Raphael in Naperville, there was a huge football program for elementary school kids called St. Raphael Football. It was not just a team, but a league, and lots of surrounding churches had teams in the league. You couldn’t live in Naperville and not have heard of St.…
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Wednesday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The important thing is that we all come to salvation. Those who have the benefit of being called earlier in their lives, perhaps being baptized as infants, have the blessing of being trained in the faith their whole life long. If we’re serious about our faith, we are overjoyed when a new person…
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