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Moral Life and Holiness
6th Sunday of ordinary time I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [Matt 5:20] Some time ago I was watching...
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Our Holiness is Utterly Supernatural
7th Sunday of Ordinary Time The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. (Lv. 19:1) When Jesus said that unless our...
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Penance and Self-denial are Necessary for Christians
8th Sunday of Ordinary Time All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be...
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The Temptations of Jesus Revisited in Lent
1st Sunday of Lent The first Sunday of Lent always sets for us the major themes of this holy season. For Lent reminds us that we are engaged in a true spiritual warfare in this world, a war that ends...
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Jesus is the True Elder Brother – reflection on the Prodigal Son
Jesus and the elder brother The parable of the prodigal son is so rich in meaning that a true believer can never grow tired of hearing it. But as I get older, my focus has changed from contemplating...
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Hope Does Not Dissapoint
3rd Sunday of Lent And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Roman 5:5) The incident in today’s Gospel...
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Blindness and Blindness
4th Sunday of Lent Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light. Ephesians 5:14 Who can see reality better, a blind man who has faith, or a man who can see but has no...
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“I am the Resurrection ans the Life” Means What?
5th Sunday of Lent Thus says the LORD GOD: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them….. Ez. 37:12 The resurrection of the dead is clearly prophesized in Ezekiel and is...
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Hope and Holy week
“Let us run to accompany Him as He hastens toward his passion” From a sermon by St. Andrew of Crete, Bishop With the Palm Sunday Liturgy, the Catholic Church...
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A Holy Thursday Meditation
Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. On the night before Jesus was to offer...
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The “No Greater Love” of Good Friday
Good Friday 2017 He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? (Romans 8:32) The great Father of the Church, St....
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He Makes Everything New
Easter 2017 What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun. Even the thing of which we say, “See, this is new!” has already existed in the ages that...
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Faith and Witness
2nd Sunday of Easter “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an...
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The Risen Christ walks with us
3rd Sunday of Easter With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. The great English writer G. K. Chesterton was asked once by a reporter what he would do...
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The Good Shepherd and Truth
4th Sunday of Easter 2017 “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” We definitely live in a time when such language as was used by the first Vicar of Christ would be found unwelcoming and harsh....
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The Utter Boldness of Jesus’ Claims to Divinity
5th Sunday of Easter I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. (John 14:4) In the history of the human race, I believe it’s safe to say that there has never...
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The True Foundation of Hope
6th Sunday of Easter Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope One the most common religious experiences of people today, especially in the so-called...
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The Mystery of the Ascension: Where He has gone, We will follow
Ascension … that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, hat are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, .. [Eph. 1:18] In his Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul assures...
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Incarnational Spirit
Pentecost As the Father has sent me, so I send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins...
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Corpus Christi – Christ is the Way
CORPUS CHRISTI And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the world. Amen. [Matt 28:20] Before Jesus ascended to the Father and no longer was visibly and tangibly present in the world, He...
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