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Thursday after Epiphany
Today’s readings The feast of Epiphany is a celebration of the fact that Christian life looks like something. Because Jesus has appeared on the earth and taken our own human form, because he has walked among us and lived our life and died our death, we know what the Christian Way looks like. We know…
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St. John Neumann
Today’s readings St. John Neumann is one of the first great American saints, the first American archbishop to be beatified. He is not to be confused with John Henry Cardinal Newman, of state university “Newman Center” fame. John Neumann was born in what is now the Czech Republic. After studying in Prague, he came to…
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The Epiphany of the Lord
Today’s readings I’m going to make things pretty simple today. If someone asks you what my homily was about, you’ll be able to sum it up in just four words: “Walk toward the light.” And that’s good advice, I think, for us who walk around in what can be a very dark world. Today’s first…
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Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen
Today’s readings St. Basil the Great was born in Caesarea in Cappadocia in the year 330. He was known for his learning and virtue, and his fight against the Arian heresy. He also wrote many wonderful works, the most revered of which is his monastic rule. He is known as the father of Eastern monasticism. …
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Mary, the Mother of God
Today’s readings My mother has a lot of stories about me as I was growing up. Some of them are funny or interesting, others are just a little painful or embarrassing. I suspect your mother has or had stories like that about you too. My mother tells the story about me as a toddler. I…
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Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas
Today’s readings What did you get for Christmas? Was it everything you’d hoped for? Or are you at that stage of life where gifts are nice, but you really don’t need anything special? A lot of my family has come to that point, except, of course, for my nieces and nephew. But it’s hard to…
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The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Today’s readings It’s certainly appropriate that we celebrate the Holy Family today, just a few days after Christmas. This feast helps to underscore that Jesus came to live among us in a very ordinary way: by taking flesh and becoming one of us, even to being part of a family. So we look on the…
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St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
Today’s readings “He saw and believed.” The “other” disciple, often called the “beloved” disciple or the disciple “whom Jesus loved,” is St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, the one we celebrate today. St. John had a very special relationship with Christ. He wasn’t as zealous and boisterous as Peter could be, but he had a…
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The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
You know, on paper, what we celebrate today is all clean and neat, and as the centuries have washed the story, it’s easy for us to swallow. I think about Linus famously proclaiming the Christmas story in the well-loved Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon, and it all seems so harmless. But we must never forget that…
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent: O Emmanuel
Today’s readings “Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.” So says the psalmist today and all indications are that that psalmist is absolutely right! Even the last-minute shoppers are starting to panic, there’s only one door left on the Advent calendar, and our Advent wreath is fully ablaze with all…
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