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Woe to you!

Woe to you!

When I was a year or two short of being a full-fledged teenager, I was invited to attend my first funeral. It was not a Catholic funeral – and as I came to know – nothing like a Catholic funeral. It was a fundamentalist, born-again, raucous affair for a...
The Gift of Hospitality

The Gift of Hospitality

Trappist: Living in the Land of Desire is Michael Downey’s portrait of the community of Trappist monks living The Rule of Saint Benedict at Our Lady of Mepkin Abbey outside Charleston, South Carolina.  In his time among the monks, Downey was struck by the monks’...
Shrewd as Serpents, Simple as Doves

Shrewd as Serpents, Simple as Doves

In today’s Gospel Jesus sends his apostles out on a mission.  The Greek word apostolos means one who is sent.  Jesus sends out these apostles to continue and expand his mission.  To become an apostle, one has to spend time with Jesus and learn from him about God and...
The Heart of Christian Life

The Heart of Christian Life

This week in the reading from the Old Testament, we have been listening to the message of Hosea. Israel had entered a time of relative prosperity and forgot its covenant relationship with God. They organized their social and political life without taking into...