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Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s readings speak to all of those of us who have had to deal with stormy times in their lives. Which is to say, I would guess, all of us. And so if we remember what’s going on with Elijah, I think we could identify with him today. Elijah has just come from…
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Saturday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Because of your little faith.” If that was the allegation of Jesus’ disciples, those men and women walking with him in person day after day, how much more does it apply to us today? How many situations absolutely confound us? How many injustices seem chronically irreparable? How many emotional crises seem insurmountable? There…
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Thursday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In the ancient Hebrew, the word we have for righteousness and justice is sedeq, which most literally means right order. The idea is that when things are as they were intended to be by God, then the poor will be taken care of, nobody’s rights will be trampled on, and God’s grace will…
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St. John Vianney, priest
Today’s readings: Ezekiel 3:17-21, Psalm 117, Matthew 9:35-10:1 St. John Vianney’s seminary education got off to a rather rocky start. In fact, his poor previous education nearly kept him out of the seminary. Then he had trouble understanding lectures in Latin. He was only able to overcome this with some private tutoring and amazing dedication…
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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings As you may know, I kind of like to cook. I learned to cook back when I was about eleven or twelve, when my mom started a part time job working in the evenings. My Dad, God rest his soul, wasn’t much of a cook. We used to say he used the smoke…
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St. Alphonsus Liguori, priest and doctor of the Church
Today’s readings Today we have a kind of celebration of moral theology. In today’s first reading, Jeremiah receives word from the Lord that he is to crank up his preaching to have Israel turn from their sinful ways. “Perhaps they will listen and turn back, each from his evil way, so that I may repent…
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
Today’s readings St. Ignatius is a good example of what the Lord is saying through Jeremiah the prophet today. Just like the potter, God can and does form and re-form us all through our lives, becoming ourselves more and more like the potter, more and more one with the potter’s actions. St. Ignatius was all…
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St. Martha
Today's readings You know, I think St. Martha gets kind of a bad rap in general. She is maybe best known for the fact that she complained about having to do all the cooking and serving while her sister Mary sat at Jesus’ feet the whole time. Jesus told her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious…
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Litany of the Saints?
Well, they got St. Patrick in there. But they forgot to give a shout out to Tom Lehrer (look him up). I guess there’s a problem with the fully formed conscience, but we can work on that.
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today's readings Someone once told me about a movie called “Everest.” I haven’t seen it, but I’m told it’s about a mountain climbing expedition that went horribly wrong. The climbers were making their way to Everest's summit when a storm came up and stranded them on the mountain. The storm was so severe that rescuers…
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