Tag: Church
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Lost and Found in Translation: Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
What may come across as little more than a discourse on marriage is actually a beautiful meditation on various aspects of love that can benefit all people.
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A Mother’s Love: Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Acts 1:12-14; John 19:25-34 If my mother said one thing to me consistently from the time I can remember, it was that she loved me. She said it all the time. When she felt the need to go beyond that, she’d say, “You will never know how much I love you until you have children […]
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Truth Beyond the World: The Feast of St. George
Revelation 21:5-7; Luke 9:23-26 When I was a boy my favorite comic book was The Amazing Spiderman. Every month I haunted the drugstore waiting for the next issue. When it finally arrived I’d read it over and over again. It was great fun imagining myself as the quirky yet powerful superhero. Although comic books date […]
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Holy Thursday: The Primacy of Service
John 13:1-15 Today we read from John’s account of the last evening that Jesus spent with his disciples before his Passion and death. The other evangelists take this opportunity to provide us with the Institution Narrative, or the words spoken by Christ that to this day are repeated by the priest during the Consecration at […]
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A Fragrant Aroma: Monday of Holy Week
John 12:1-8 Awhile after my father died, my mother asked if I would help her sort out his things. As I took some clothes out of his dresser it struck me; they still smelled like him. It was as if my father was right there. It took me several minutes to regain my composure. Scientists […]
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Mother and Baby: The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10; Psalm 40:7-11; Hebrews 10:4-10; Luke 1:26-38 Everyone knows the bond between a mother and her baby is special and that there is nothing in the world quite like it. But recently I came across some research that taught me things about it I didn’t know and that gave me new perspectives on […]
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Passing By the Dragon
Every week I scour the internet and various hard- and soft-bound sources for quotes that I think might make a difference to somebody, somewhere. I know I’m not always successful but I also know for sure that at least once in a while a quote touches someone for the better. Well, today’s quote touched me. […]
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The Choice to Forgive: The 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18; 1 Corinthians 3:16-23; Matthew 5:38-48 As a young married woman, Edith Eger emigrated to the United States just after World War II and settled in Texas with her husband and first child. If she didn’t carry much material baggage, she carried a lot inside. A Jew, she and her family had been […]
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The Outsiders: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
James 1:12-18; Mark 8:14-21 We may as well answer the question Jesus asked the disciples at the end of the gospel passage: Do you still not understand (Mark 8:21)? No, they do not understand at all. The question is, why? So far in Mark’s gospel they have heard him teach, seen him heal, witness him […]
Mark 10:45 