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Being Guided by Faith

Being Guided by Faith

Joseph is kind of a forgotten figure in the history of salvation. This was sort of planned so that God can be seen as the true Father of Jesus throughout the Gospel. Joseph is not mentioned often in...

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Love Everyone

Love Everyone

Today’s Gospel is truly remarkable. It is part of the Sermon on the Mount which is sort of a life plan from God’s point of view for all Christians. It comes out of Jesus relationship with God the...

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Word of God

Word of God

Each Sunday we hear the Word of God, the Sacred Scripture.  The first reading is usually taken from the Old Testament, the second reading is usually a reading from a letter of St. Paul and there is...

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On Living Waters

On Living Waters

Part of the baptismal ceremony for infants is the blessing of the waters of the sacrament. It is a wonderful blessing that tells the history of salvation through the story of the living waters. It...

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New Heavens and Earth

New Heavens and Earth

It has been said that a prophet is someone who “comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.”  This saying describes well both Isaiah in our first reading and Jesus in today’s Gospel. ...

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Commanding Love

Commanding Love

The scribe's question in our gospel from St. Mark about the greatest commandment was not posed “to test” Jesus as is done in Matthew’s and Luke’s gospels. The question is, in fact, a familiar one...

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The Voice of God

The Voice of God

The prophet Jeremiah in today’s first reading calls us to hear the Voice of God.  Jeremiah becomes God’s mouthpiece, speaking the very words of God: “Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and...

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Hope

Hope

The Word of God in the Old Testament continually proclaimed the coming of the Messiah who would re-establish a right relationship between God and all creation. Many in Israel chose to live out their...

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The Bulwark

The Bulwark

We should certainly hear an echo of the Lord’s Prayer in today’s gospel: ““Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you,...

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Prophets

Prophets

Who are the true prophets and what does a prophet do?  True prophets are those who speak the word of God.  Both Elisha in today’s first reading and Jesus in today’s Gospel are prophets.  Elisha...

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