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Thursday of the First Week of Advent
Today’s readings There’s an old saying that if you want to hear God laugh, just tell him your plans for the day. And we know how true that is, don’t we? How many times have we had a plan for the day, only to have it derailed by whatever circumstances come our way during the…
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CREEDS Retreat Conference I: Advent and the Incarnation of Christ
Readings: Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 3:1-7 Godspell: “Prepare Ye” and “Save the People” One of the single greatest mysteries of our faith is the Incarnation of Christ. When you stop to think about it, who are we that the Author of all Life should take on our own corrupt and broken form and become one of…
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CREEDS Retreat Conference II: The Eucharist and the Church
Scriptures: Matthew 26:14-30 Godspell: “Beautiful City” and “On the Willows” The Eucharist is an amazingly complex event. Ordinary food – bread and wine – become the very body and blood of our Lord and God. Through the Eucharist we mere creatures are given the opportunity to take part in the very life of God our…
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CREEDS Retreat Conference III: Salvation through the Cross and Resurrection
Scriptures: Matthew 27:33-56; Matthew 28:1-10 Godspell: “Finale” Ask a bunch of church type people what their favorite celebration of the Church year is, and inevitably most of them will tell you that it’s the Paschal Triduum. That period from the evening of Holy Thursday to the Evening of Holy Saturday, celebrating the giving of the…
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Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
Today’s readings I love the ending lines of today’s Gospel reading, because they call me to conversion all the time. Listen again: “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what…
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First Sunday of Advent
Today’s readings “To you, my God, I lift my soul, I trust in you; let me never come to shame. Do not let my enemies laugh at me. No one who waits for you is ever put to shame.” With these words of the proper entrance antiphon today, the Church begins the new Church year. …
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Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Our readings have been reminding us that the night is far spent and the day is drawing near. We are called upon today to remain vigilant so that we do not miss the second coming of the Lord. And it is well that we receive that warning today, on the cusp as we…
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Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings You have to wonder what Jesus meant when he said, “this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.” Certainly the then-current generation had come and gone, and it doesn’t seem like we’ve come to the end of the world. But the Church would pose two very important questions…
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Tuesday of the Thirty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I really don’t like that over-used phrase “at the end of the day.” You hear it all the time, and it’s one of my top-five least favorite corporate-speak phrases. But I can’t help but think about this tired old phrase when I read the Scriptures for the Liturgy in these last days of…
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Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
Today’s readings You know, it’s always hard to proclaim this Gospel because I have to try to avoid looking to my left and right in order not to give the impression that this is the last judgment! But seriously, although I’ve heard this Gospel so many times, one thing has kind of leapt out at…
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