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Friar Reflection

The Grave

The Grave

The Lord said: “Woe to you Pharisees! …  You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.” (Luke 11:42). Back before this pandemic, I would often go with friends to the movie theatre....

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Gospel

Gospel

“I am not ashamed of the Gospel.  It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes”.  Paul speaks today about the Gospel or his Gospel.  When Paul is writing his letters in the 50’s...

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Saints of God

Saints of God

Today we begin reading Paul’s letter to the Romans.  This letter is probably the last letter he wrote sometime in the late 50’s.  It is a difficult and challenging letter to read but also one of the...

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Demons

Demons

People today cannot just disagree they feel they have to demonize their adversary as being in “league with Satan” as they caricature their stance.  Often these ad hominem attacks reflect more the...

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Prayer

Prayer

“Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”  Is this really our experience?  I am sure that all of us have had the experience of asking for...

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Comes the Spirit

Comes the Spirit

Today’s first reading is from one of my favorite books: The Book of Jonah. The book is only four chapters long and we are in Chapter 3. The whole Jonah and the “whale” have already happened, Jonah...

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Mission and Belonging

Mission and Belonging

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” It is a great passage, a great image,...

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Word of God

Word of God

Today’s first reading from Nehemiah describes a Jewish “Liturgy of the Word.”  Since Christianity started out as a Jewish sectarian movement our Liturgy of the Word is very similar to what is...

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Under the Fig Tree

Under the Fig Tree

Today is the Feast of the Archangels with a reading from the Gospel of John in which Jesus encounters Nathaniel under a fig tree. It is only at the end of the reading that angels get a mention: “you...

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