Sunday Reflection
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“I am the Lord, there is no other”
Oct 17, 2014
It is fitting that the gospel readings in October and November frequently focus on radical discipleship. Late fall in the United States is, after all, the time of political choices, a season of elections, partisanship, and rival loyalties.
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28th Sunday: Wearing our Christianity
Oct 09, 2014
This is not a good Sunday for you if you are on a diet.
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27th Sunday: Actions and Consequences
Oct 01, 2014
The parable in today’s gospel begins with numerous references to the first reading from the prophet Isaiah. In that reading a vineyard is meticulously prepared.
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Twenty-sixth Sunday: Empty Means Full
Sep 25, 2014
I am sure that every parent has had to swallow hard when their children have said something thoughtless. Parents know that they have to be more concerned with caring for the children than their own feelings.
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Twenty-fifth Sunday: Are you envious because I am generous?
Sep 18, 2014
It continues to amaze me that some people think God is a projection of humanity’s wish.
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The Triumph of the Cross: God Loves Us
Sep 11, 2014
For five years I lived in one of the most beautiful places in our country, believe it or not, in New Jersey. I attended Don Bosco Seminary in Sussex County, the Northwest corner of New Jersey.
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Twenty-third Sunday: Challenge in Community
Sep 05, 2014
As if particularly sensitive to the demands of Christian community life, the readings from the Lectionary’s Cycle A this month provide contrasting sets of virtues and vices that foster and destroy relationships.
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Twenty-second Sunday: Not Conforming to the Age
Aug 28, 2014
Our desire for equilibrium fools us. Smooth sailing and steady stability, we suppose, should be the by-products of faith.
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Twenty-first Sunday: Who could know the mind of God?
Aug 21, 2014
The last council seems to be the work of the devil.” The words still stay with me, although I heard them from an older priest many years ago.
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Twentieth Sunday: All Equal, Each Unique
Aug 14, 2014
That ancient problem of the one and the many has taken a million shapes. It is seen in the battle of change with continuity, the clash of novelty with permanence, the claims of individuality versus universality.



Sunday Reflection
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time: Temples of God
A number of years ago, I came upon three very disappointed young ladies in our Life Teen Programme. They were just freshmen and had been looking forward to the Homecoming Dance, their first big high school dance. Well, the dance was not what they expected.