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Friar Reflection

Taking the Plunge

Taking the Plunge

I can remember coming home from 3+ years of mission in Kenya, friends were driving me home, and as we wound through trees, I could see the porch light on at my home in the foothills of the Blue...

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Follow Me

Follow Me

Jesus’ invitation to Philip in today’s Gospel is simple, “Follow me.”  How does Philip respond?  He brings Nathanael with him to follow Jesus after telling him, “We have found the one about whom...

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Faith in Action

Faith in Action

Elizabeth Ann Seton has a personal history that we would not expect in the life of a saint: orphaned when 3 years old, married at 19 years old to a wealthy husband, mother of five children, widowed...

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The Lamb of God

The Lamb of God

“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” We hear the same expression at every Mass, but do we hear the words in the same way as John the Baptist would have understood them? For...

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Family and Faith

Family and Faith

After the death of the first twelve apostles, the Church entered the patristic stage, a time of guidance by the early fathers. Basil and Gregory come from that period. Basil lived from 329AD to...

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Abba

Abba

In today’s Gospel Mary, the Mother of God, serves as a model for how we are invited to hear the Word of God.  The Evangelist Luke tells us that Mary, after she had heard all the amazing things being...

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