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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Like many of you, when I take a vacation somewhere with natural beauty, I am always amazed at it. For several years, my family used to vacation up in Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan. I was always in awe to see the sun rise over the lake, or after a rain, to see…
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Pope Saint John XXIII
The firstborn son of a farming family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo in northern Italy, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was always proud of his down-to-earth roots. After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Roncalli returned to Rome for canon law studies. He soon worked as his bishop’s secretary, Church history teacher in the seminary, and as…
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The Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s gospel reading is a rather heartbreaking story, to be honest. The rich young man is obviously a follower of the law and a religious man, because he is able to talk to Jesus about his observance of the law. But when Jesus tells him to let go of what he has in…
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Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I love that Jesus uses that phrase “the finger of God.” If things are done by “the finger of God,” it shows a God who is active in our world and interested in our well-being. It can be hard, sometimes, to see that. We get caught up in all the complexities and tragedies of daily life. But…
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Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Try as we might for perfection in our journey of faith, we all of us stumble and fall sometimes. That’s just the way, unfortunately, it is in this fallen world. But that being the case, we have in our Liturgy of the Word this morning some saints who can accompany us on this…
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The Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings If you’ve been to any number of Church weddings, you have probably heard today’s first reading, and part of the Gospel proclaimed. Obviously we usually leave out the part about divorce, but these readings are quite popular for weddings. The reason, of course, is that the story is about how man and woman…
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The Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets! Would that the LORD might bestow his spirit on them all! When we think about prophets and prophecy, I think our minds always take us to ancient days. All the prophets we tend to think about lived many centuries ago: Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah,…
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Saint Pius of Pietreclina (Padre Pio)
Today’s readings At the age of 15, Francesco Forgione joined the Capuchins and took the name of Pio. He was ordained in 1910 and was drafted during World War I. After he was discovered to have tuberculosis, he was discharged. In 1917 he was assigned to the friary in San Giovanni Rotondo. On September 20,…
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Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Today’s readings For those of us who strive to live as disciples, today’s feast is really a joy. I say that because Matthew was qualified to be a disciple of Jesus in much the same way that we are qualified to be disciples of Jesus – which is to say, not at all, really. Matthew was a…
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Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs
Today’s readings As we come together this evening to begin the year of faith formation in our Confirmation program, I think today’s readings and saints really speak to us. The Gospel this evening reminds us that when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we have the ability, the gift, and the obligation to witness…
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