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Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It has often struck me when hearing the news the last several months that being rich in what matters to God is more important than ever. With banks failing, Wall Street needing a huge bailout, and a 700 billion dollar economic recovery transfusion coming from the government, who among us hasn’t had the…
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Today’s readings | Today’s saint [Mass for the junior high school children.] Of all birds, sparrows are probably the most insignificant. They are small in size and dull in color. They undertake no great flights. They live in bushes rather than in trees. Though they are found in vast numbers all over the world, we…
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Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings When I was in seminary, one of the big courses we had to pass with flying colors early on was called Christology. As the name might suggest, Christology is the study of Jesus Christ, but perhaps more specifically a study of the Church’s theology about Jesus Christ. That course covers what we believe…
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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time: Let your mercy come to me, O Lord
Today’s readings “Let your mercy come to me, O Lord.” I love that there were short verses for the psalm today, and we got to repeat this refrain from the Psalmist over and over. If you think about it, and if you really enter into it, it becomes a kind of mantra, or Taize chant,…
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Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It was shortly after lunch that I finished this homily, and who could blame me? With all this talk of “juicy, rich food” and wedding banquets, and even St. Paul saying that he knew what it was like to be well-fed and what it was like to be hungry, whose mind wouldn’t turn…
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Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s homily is a bit of a mystagogy on this familiar experience we have of praying the Lord’s Prayer. Mystagogy is a kind of reflecting back on the mysteries. Once we have experienced the mysteries and practices and rituals of our faith, it is important for us to reflect back on them, to…
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Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I reflect often these days on how much less I seem to know compared to what I thought I knew as a young adult. In those late-teen and early-twenties years, I think so many of us think we have life all figured out and we know how things should be run. Certainly, there…
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The Guardian Angels
Today’s readings: Exodus 23:20-23; Psalm 91; Matthew 18:1-5, Matthew 18:10 “For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways.” These are incredibly comforting words that the Psalmist sings to us today. God never allows anything to overshadow us, never misses any event of our lives. Moreover, he commands the angels, his servants,…
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St. Jerome
Today’s readings It seems like St. Jerome had much in common with the disciples of today’s Gospel reading. Jerome, rather unfortunately, was known for his quick temper and sometimes mean-spirited pen. If they had email in those days, he’d be the one to fire off a quick nastygram without even taking time to think about…
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