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Friar Reflection

Fighting Against God

In today’s first reading from Acts we hear the Jewish Pharisee Gamaliel give wise and sage advice.  He advises restraint in their dealings with the early Jewish Christian Community.   He refers to...

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Being Born Again

One of the questions we priest occasionally receive is about our ability to prepare people for marriage - since we were never married, or to speak to families about dynamics that arise in families -...

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Born Again

In today’s Gospel we hear the story of Nicodemus.  The Evangelist tells us that he is a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews.  Like many others in this Gospel, Nicodemus comes to Jesus searching and...

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Goin’ Fishing

Has Peter given up!  Today’s Gospel is the story of Jesus’ appearance to seven disciples at the Sea of Tiberias in Galilee.  The seven disciples are Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael,...

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The Breaking of the Bread

In today’s Gospel we have the well-known story of Jesus’ appearance on the road to Emmaus.  Luke tells us that the disciples came to recognize Jesus “in the breaking of the bread.”  This phrase was...

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Grief and New Life

Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus expecting only death. She went full of overpowering grief and sadness. All of her hopes about a savior and messiah were destroyed by death. She arrives at...

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Resurrection Faith

Today’s gospel from St. Matthew  is familiar to all readers: Jesus has been crucified, died, and laid within a tomb guarded by soldiers and watched by Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary.” The...

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We mourn his passing

This was the pontiff who took the name “Francis” in homage to Catholicism’s most iconic and beloved saint, the “little poor man” of Assisi; the pope who rejected the marble and gold of the Papal...

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Love and Betrayal

Today is known as “spy Wednesday” and we see Judas setting up Jesus’ arrest with the religious leaders. There are hundreds of theories about why Judas betrayed Jesus. The Gospel simply says he was a...

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