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Astonishing New Authority

Astonishing New Authority

There is a lot going on in today’s Gospel reading, especially in the background. At the beginning of his public ministry, Jesus goes to the synagogue at Capernaum which was a city located at a crossroads and was a social, cultural, and economic center. The synagogue...

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God Speaks

God Speaks

God wants to speak to us, are we listening?  Today’s first reading from Hebrews proclaims how God has spoken to us in the Old Testament and now speaks to us in a unique way in Jesus Christ. “In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through...

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A Love Letter

A Love Letter

Since Tuesday of this week (today is Friday), the first reading has been from the First Letter of John starting with the fourth chapter. John’s letters are sometimes a challenge to read and often presents challenges in listening as the letter seems to continually curl...

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Amazing Fulfillment

Amazing Fulfillment

All this week between the Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord, the readings concentrate on who Jesus is. Who is this Prince of Peace, this Christmas Christ Child born rejected, persecuted, and poor in a barn and placed to sleep in a feeding trough for animals? The...

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Passing By

Passing By

Today’s gospel (Mark 6:45-52) has some verses that have always, for me, lingered between odd and troubling: “When it was evening, the boat was far out on the sea and [Jesus] was alone on shore. Then he saw that they were tossed about while rowing, for the wind was...

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Faith and Love

Faith and Love

Both the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John focus us clearly on the essential elements of our religious life, namely faith and love.  In the Gospel we have the core of the Gospel or the Gospel within the Gospel in the famous passage John 3:16. “For God so loved...

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Joy and Witness

Joy and Witness

Our culture has reduced the Christmas season to one day, the 25th, and even more so that one day has been reduced to one or two hours for opening presents and eating a meal. Then for most families the celebration is all over. We have lost a lot in the reduction and...

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Witness

Witness

One of the key themes in the Gospel of John is the theme of witness or testimony.  So, in today’s Gospel we hear: “This is the testimony of John.”  This theme was already announced in the Prologue of the Gospel: “A man named John was sent from God.  He came for...

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In the Fullness of Time

In the Fullness of Time

What would you say if someone asks, can you prove that God exists? Can you provide an empirical, scientific or mathematical proof of the existence of God? St Thomas Aquinas understood that strict proofs in the empirical sense are not possible, he would point out that...

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