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Transformed

Transformed

The enemies are on the horizon. Judah is in a time of darkness or uncertainty, waiting for a light to show there is a better future coming. Today's first reading is from Isaiah 29:17-24. Beginning with the first verse the reading lets us know that something new and...

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Showing the Rock to Others

Showing the Rock to Others

It is so easy for us to develop and then maintain a relationship with God based on natural religiosity. This leads us to only pay lip serve to God without any significance. We also develop a self-righteousness. We begin to judge and condemn others. As Catholics we...

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Transformed

Peasants and Royalty

The entire first reading (Isa 11:1-10) gives us a prophetic vision of the coming Messiah, a figure who will bring justice, peace, and harmony to all creation. Today’s first reading also offers two quite famous verses we have all encountered: “But a shoot shall sprout...

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Mountain Climbing

Mountain Climbing

In today’s first reading we hear Isaiah’s great vision of peace and joy: “In days to come, the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills.”  All people and nations are invited to climb up to the mountain of the...

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Millennial Fever

Millennial Fever

In today’s first reading we hear how an angel seizes Satan and imprisons him in the abyss for a thousand years.  This passage has been the source of much speculation and endless calculation as people catch “millennial fever” trying to figure out when this 1,000-year...

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Today, Thanksgiving, is a special day to give thanks.  We as Christians gives thanks in a special way in the Eucharist.  The word Eucharist comes from the Greek verb, “to give thanks.”  Paul uses this verb in our second reading: “I give thanks to my God always on your...

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Song of Redemption

Song of Redemption

What if I simply came to the ambo for the homily and said “Oh, say can you see” and then paused. I feel pretty sure that what would come to your mind is the Battle of Ft. McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812 - the event that served as the source and...

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Living Through the End Times

Living Through the End Times

This is the last week of our liturgical year in the Church. This week the readings all speak of the end times. We are fascinated with the end times, the end of the world, the final judgement, the Parousia. We want to know the secrets of the time and events that signal...

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Song of Redemption

Three vs. 144,000

“I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand.” (Rev 14:1) It is a famous verse from Scripture that quickly focuses on the “144,000” standing with “the Lamb on Mount Zion.” There are some denominations...

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