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Today’s readings This set of readings always makes me chuckle just a little bit. Back in my second assignment, before I became a pastor, I was assigned to my home parish, which is a bit unusual. And the first Sunday I was … Continued
Today’s readings You know, sometimes I think we don’t know what we believe until we’re called upon to explain it. Especially for those of us who are “cradle Catholics” – the ones who were baptized Catholic and have grown up in … Continued
Today’s readings Today we celebrate a feast of great importance to our Church. Saint Peter, the apostle to the Jews, and St. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, come together to show how the Church is truly universal, that is, truly … Continued
Today’s readings My absolute favorite line from this Gospel reading is, “Then he put them all out.” I can just imagine Jesus going into the house, encountering the mourners, seeing the lack of faith in all of them, and saying “Go … Continued
Today’s readings There’s quite a bit of laughing and astonishment in today’s Liturgy of the Word, and I like it! “Lord, if you wish you can make me clean.” In some ways, that is the biggest understatement in all of Scripture. Of … Continued
Today’s readings Today we celebrate a feast that is a bit unusual for us. When we celebrate a saint’s day, it is usually celebrated on the feast of their death, not their birth. But today we celebrate the birth of … Continued
Today’s readings Listen to those words of Jesus again: “Enter through the narrow gate;for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,and those who enter through it are many.How narrow the gate and constricted the road … Continued
Today’s readings God is absolutely, always, faithful to his promises. In our first reading tonight, God makes a promise to Abram, later to be called Abraham. God calls on him to make an act of faith and go to a … Continued
Today’s readings It amazes me when I think about all that the early Church had to go through and put up with. Saint Paul writes that he put up with persecution from all sides: from his own people as well … Continued
Today’s readings I really don’t have a green thumb, but for a while when I was young, I was very interested in growing things. My grandmother on my dad’s side had quite the green thumb: anything she planted grew to … Continued
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