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Monday of the Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings A conventional piece of Christian wisdom tells us to “love what Jesus loved when he was on the cross, and despise what Jesus despised when he was on the cross.” We get that same message from Moses today in the first reading. He tells the Israelites that the high and mighty God loves…
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Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Liturgy of the Word, brothers and sisters in Christ, is a kind of handbook, I think, for the Christian disciple. Those of us who would follow in the steps of Jesus are given several wonderful pearls of wisdom which are meant to guide us on the way. So today, I thought it…
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St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Today’s readings Faithfulness can be such a hard virtue to cultivate in ourselves. We like to think that we are faithful. We say our prayers, we come to Mass, we even do some acts of service. But the minute some crisis comes along, our faith is easily tested. It is hard to be faithful in…
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St. Dominic
Today’s readings On a journey through France with his bishop, St. Dominic came across the Albigensian heresy. The Albigensians believed in just two principles in life: good and evil. For them, anything material was evil, and so they denied the Incarnation and the sacraments. On the same principle they abstained from procreation and took a…
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The Transfiguration of the Lord
Today’s readings How do you picture Jesus? We’ve never seen him face to face, but we have seen artwork depicting him. That artwork can be very inspiring. But that artwork can also give us a false, overly-familiar look at Jesus our God. Maybe the picture you have is from Jesus of Nazareth or the Passion…
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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Liturgy of the Word gives us no summer break. There is no rest for the weary here. Listen to the last line of that Gospel one more time: “Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.” So right away…
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Friday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings [Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus] What kinds of mighty deeds is the Lord Jesus trying to do in our own lives? Is he finding success there, or have we put up obstacles through our own lack of faith? Today we celebrate a Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus…
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Thursday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The Israelites wandering in the desert would seem to have had the spiritual life easy. How could they possibly miss God’s presence? There was a cloud to lead them to the Lord by day, and fire by night. But just like the stuff that ended up in the net in today’s Gospel, some…
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Monday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings There are so many places I could go with today’s first reading: it give us so many opportunities to look at leadership and the spiritual life. But I think what leapt out at me today is that Moses asks Aaron the exact right question: “What did this people ever do to you that…
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Liturgy of the Word gives us a welcome look at the urgent need for persistent prayer. In our readings today we see God’s openness to our prayers, we hear a model for our prayers, and we receive some instruction on what prayer should be like. But above all, the point that we…
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