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Goin’ Fishing

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, Zebedee’s two sons, and two other disciples.  Peter seems ready to...

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The Breaking of the Bread

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 the way the early church referred to the Eucharist or the mass.  Two...

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Grief and New Life

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 the tomb and finds it empty. Everything in her life experience leads her...

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Resurrection Faith

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 Sabbath has passed and dawn approaches on the first day of a new week. The...

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We mourn his passing

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 Apartments in favor of the Domus Santa Marta, a modest hotel on Vatican...

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Love and Betrayal

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 despicable thief. Some theories say he was trying to force Jesus to...

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Will you sing?

Will you sing?

The refrain from today’s psalm is “I will sing of your salvation.” Will you? If you are the average Catholic your answer might be “yes” but I wonder what you answer would be if the question was “Will you sing of your salvation outside of Mass or your shower?”  Granted...

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Anointing

Anointing

In today’s Gospel Mary performs a loving and prophetic action.  “Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil…and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair.”  Her actions provoked different responses.  Judas, seemingly with genuine concern for the poor but...

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Trust and Faith

Trust and Faith

Life is full of difficulties and rarely goes as we plan or as we want. This can produce in us a lot of different attitudes: despair, anger, sadness, dullness, insensibility, apathy, restlessness, or depression – even violence. Some people get struck in those negative...

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