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Fulfilled in your Hearing

Fulfilled in your Hearing

Today our Gospel begins a largely continuous reading from the Gospel of Luke at the weekday masses.  Today’s Gospel is often referred to as Jesus’ inaugural or programmatic address.  He attends the weekly synagogue service as a good Jew.  After the reading of the...
Weal and Woe

Weal and Woe

In today’s Gospel Jesus continues to pronounce a sevenfold woe against the scribes and Pharisees: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites….”  Today he again accuses them of hypocrisy because they neglect “the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy...
Love of God

Love of God

In today’s first reading from Deuteronomy Moses tells us what God wants of us, namely, reverence and love: “And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God,...
Hungry People

Hungry People

In both readings today we have stories of hungry people.  In the first reading from Numbers the Israelites lament and complain because they have no food but this “disgusting” manna.  They would even been willing to return to the “good old days” in Egypt! “Would that...
Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

In today’s first reading from the Book of Leviticus Moses instructs the Israelites about the various holy days or “festivals of the Lord.”  So, we hear about the Jewish feast of Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread that follows right after Passover.  The most...