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Triune God – Eternal Love
Holy Trinity Sunday 2014 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. [1 John 4:8] A friend once asked me if I thought Islam believed in the same God as Christianity does. The answer is...
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Corpus Christi, Center and Destiny of Creation and Human History
And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the world. [Matt 28:20] Before Jesus ascended to the Father and no longer was visibly and tangibly present in human history, He promised his disciples...
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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
In the Preface to the Eucharistic Prayer for the feast of an Apostle, we read these meaningful words, “And from their place in heaven they guide us still.” And today’s Solemnity of the Martyrdom of...
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Parables of the Kingdom
16th Sunday of ordinary Time The Son of Man will will dispatch his angels to collect from His kingdom all who draw others to apostasy and all evildoers. The angels will hurl them into the fiery furnace...
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The New Solomons
17th Sunday of the Ordinary Time Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?” [ I...
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The Realism of the Eucharist
18th Sunday of Ordinary Time Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare. Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you the everlasting covenant...
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The Fertile Soil of the Soul
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time A – 2011 Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful …so shall my word be...
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We Too Will Be Transfigured
Transfiguration 2194 and the Ancient One took his throne. His clothing was bright as snow, and the hair on his head as white as wool; his throne was flames of fire [Dan. 7:9] On August 6, 1945, a...
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Peter’s Faith, Our Anchor
19th Sunday of ordinary Time “Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught Peter,and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” There have been a lot of...
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Our Beacon of Hope in the Darkness of this Age
Solemnity of the Assumption God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. [Rev. 11:19A] One of the favorite subjects of medieval and renaissance art was...
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Her Faith Conquerd Christ
20th Sunday of Ordinary Time “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” Is, 56:7 There are numerous passages already in the Old Testament that point to the universal call to...
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We are of Royal Blood
Today’s solemnity wonderfully completes the celebration of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven. Just as we celebrate the solemnity of Christ as the universal king, so today we celebrate the universal...
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Christ guarantees our faith through Peter
21st Sunday of the Year Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! You may have heard a recent proposal to...
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The Renewal of Our Minds
22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time I urge you, brothers and sisters, Do not conform yourselves to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what...
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Watchmen, Truth and Terror
23rd Sunday of the Year “You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me.” Ezk 33:7 Of all the...
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The Only Goal Worth Everything
All Saints 2014 After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white...
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The Wisdom of Praying for the Dead
Commemoration of All Souls – 2014 Today’s Sunday Mass is celebrated for the Commemoration of All Souls. It is the culmination of what has been referred to as the second triduum in the liturgical...
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Hail Christ the King
Solemnity of Christ the King – 2014 Today’s feast of Christ the King is a relatively new and most interesting liturgical feast, a great gift to the Church from Pope Pius XI in 1925. This feast was...
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We can all be like the widow in today’s gospel
“I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.” This...
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How We Stay Watchful and Alert
1st Sunday of Advent 2014 “give us new life, and we will call upon your name” (Psalm 80:19) What exactly is this “new life” that the Psalmist speaks of in today’s Responsory, and how can it change our...
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