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The Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today’s readings This feast is one of the reasons I love the Blessed Virgin. Having given her fiat – her “yes” – to God, she now shows concern for her elder relative who is also with child. She goes to visit her in a great act of hospitality, which is one of the virtues Paul…
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Thursday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings One of the voices that can never be silenced in us is the voice that cries out seeking to see. We spend our whole lives crying out as Bartimaeus in today’s Gospel: “Master, I want to see.” And just as the crowd and even the disciples could not silence his desires, so nothing…
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Today’s readings If today’s feast of the Most Holy Trinity teaches us anything about the nature of God, it might be that we know next to nothing about the nature of God! To be clear, I don’t mean that as a negative thing. God is so close to us and so far beyond us, that…
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Friday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It’s been interesting to me this week about how the letter of James has served to underscore Jesus’ teachings from the Gospel of Mark. On weekends, the first reading and Gospel are selected to go together, but during the week that’s not always the case. But this week, James and Mark have been…
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Thursday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Scriptures extol the virtue of poverty of spirit, which is perhaps one of the more difficult virtues to embrace and nurture. Saint James illustrates how things of this world, specifically the pursuit of riches, can be not only a powerful distraction from the spiritual life, but can also leave one complicit in…
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Graduation: The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Today’s readings Today, as we gather for your Graduation Mass, the last time you will celebrate Mass together as a class, we do that on this memorial day of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. I think that’s a wonderful little coincidence, because it gives us the opportunity to reflect on the ways…
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The Solemnity of Pentecost
Words contain a lot of power. We know that well, because sometimes we say the wrong things, or these days, text the wrong things, and we see how it upsets people we love. And equally we experience the power of someone saying just the right thing at the right time and we see how that…
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Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today’s readings “Do you love me more than these?” It’s a question that cuts to the heart. Peter had just betrayed his friendship with Jesus and his commitment to the Gospel by denying his Lord not once, but three times: “I tell you, I do not know the man you are talking about.” This is…
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Saint Matthias, Apostle
Today’s readings We don’t really know much about St. Matthias. We have no idea the qualifications that led to his being nominated as one of two possibilities to take Judas’s position among the Twelve Apostles. But clearly, the Apostles would have nominated a holy and faithful man, and then they left the deciding up to…
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Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today’s readings In these days after the Ascension, the Liturgy calls us to turn and find our hope and security in God. Certainly this was difficult for the early disciples, who tested Jesus to see if he was who he said he was. They were satisfied with what they found, and said they believed in…
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