Sunday Reflection
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Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time: One Church
Aug 15, 2020
The world and our country needs to experience in the Catholic Church the prophetic sign that diverse people can become one unified person.
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Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: He calls us to walk with Him on the Water
Aug 08, 2020
Jesus conquers the chaos that is caused by things that are beyond our control. Life itself is chaotic. Just when all seems to be calm, a loved one suddenly dies. All of us have experienced this. We did not cause the chaos, but we do suffer from it.
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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Culture of Life
Aug 01, 2020
The Gospel reading for this Sunday begins with Jesus hearing the news of the death of John the Baptist, who was murdered, as you know, by Herod as part of the plot of his wife, Herodias, to protect her position at court. You know the story.
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Seventeenth Sunday: Wisdom and bringing out the best of the past
Jul 25, 2020
This Sunday’s readings begin with Solomon’s request for wisdom and conclude with a summation of the Lord’s teaching on the parables.
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Sixteenth Sunday: The Christian Farmer’s Almanac
Jul 18, 2020
The parable of the mustard seed. And Jesus said, “behold the mustard seed. It is the smallest of seeds yet it grows into a large bush.”
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: What to do with the seed?
Jul 11, 2020
In the early part of the thirteenth century, Giovanni Franceso Bernardone was headed for a prosperous life as a cloth merchant in the Province of Umbria, Italy. He was also headed for a life of complete self-gratification.
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Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: A disturbing challenge
Jul 05, 2020
The reading from Zechariah recalls and helps us understand a symbolic action Jesus used when he wanted to correct people's misunderstanding of his messiahship. It seems that the main image of a Messiah in the minds of Jesus’ contemporaries was modeled after King David.
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Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Being Fully Alive
Jun 27, 2020
To be fully alive is to be alive both physically and spiritually, for we are spiritual beings as well as physical beings. Many people feel dead because they are dead. They live only for the physical and have sacrificed or refused to embrace their capacity for the spiritual.
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The Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Fear of the Lord
Jun 20, 2020
It was the beginning of the sixth century before Christ, about the year 590 BC. The Kingdom of Judah and its capital Jerusalem were terrified.
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Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord: Reverence for the Eucharist
Jun 14, 2020
Today’s celebration focuses on the Gift of the Last Supper, the Gift of the Eucharist. This feast is relatively new in the Church.
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.