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What has caused our Missionary Disaster: Strange Doctrines?
Reflections “Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching.” [Heb. 13:9] The feast of St. Francis Xavier is at the same time highly joyful and a cause of sadness, at least for me. To recall...
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Lord that we may see
“Do you believe that I can do this?” The gospel today recounts a miraculous curing of two blind men by Jesus. The blind men beg Jesus to take pity on them, and Jesus knows well what they are asking of...
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At Home in Time and Eternity
3rd Sunday of the year Cycle B If today you hear His voice …… The Church regularly prays this line from the Old Testament at the very beginning of her divine office offered on behalf of the whole...
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Christ and Truth
4th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him. Whoever will not listen to my...
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The True Measure of our Worth
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible. To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all, to save at least...
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We are the lepers He made clean
6TH SUNDAY OF THE ORDINARY TIME A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Try to imagine, for a moment, a situation where you would have a...
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Our Human Fulfillment is Christ
1ST SUNDAY OF LENT This is the reason Christ died for sins once for all, a just man for the sake of the unjust, so that He could lead you to God. (Pet. 3:18) For Christians, the Season of Lent is a...
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Lent: It’s Good That We Are Here
2nd Sunday of Lent Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! (Mark 9:5) What is Lent if not a time of internal, spiritual renewal? It’s much like temporal springtime which...
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Cleansing The Temple – Cleansing Us
3rd Sunday of Lent For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God The dramatic confrontation in today’s Gospel, where Jesus drives the moneychangers and merchants from the temple precincts, is certainly...
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The True measure of Sin’s evil – Christ Crucified
4th Sunday of Lent God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believed in him may not die but have Eternal Life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but...
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Holy Week and Holiness
Palm Sunday 2015 With the reading of the Passion, we have now begun the celebration of the holiest week of the year for Christians, which will culminate this coming weekend with the celebration of the...
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Holy Thursday: Have the same attitude as Christ
Holy Thursday 2015 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. 1 cor. 11:26 It is one of the more fascinating aspects of the accounts of...
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St. Joseph: Model of manhood, fatherhood, and husbandhood.
When God chose to come into the world, he did so in a way that reaffirmed the goodness of the divine plan for the family. If there ever was a single woman who was more capable of being a loving mother,...
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The Path to Glory is Open
5TH Sunday of Lent “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” In the Gospel of John, we hear Jesus, or St. John, refer on a number of occasions to what Jesus calls “my hour.” He refers to...
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The Annunciation: the Greatest of our Feasts?
Annunciation 2015 “for nothing will be impossible for God” It always has bothered me how poorly attended the Solemnity of the Annunciation is each year. It may be that this feast is somewhat...
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The Resurrection: He is making all things new
Easter 2015 “What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 “And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new....
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The New Life of the Resurrection – It begins here
2nd Sunday of Easter The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common. Acts 4:32 A day or two after...
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Proof of the Resurrection? Our Lives
3rd Sunday of Easter The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Those who say, “I know him,” but do not keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. But...
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The Good Shepherd and His Church
4th Sunday of Easter 2015 The image of the Good Shepherd is certainly one of the most beautiful and attractive descriptions of Our Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord chose this self-portrait as the best...
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Catherine of Sienna: Saint for Our Day?
The holy virgin Catherine steadfastly begged the Lord to restore peace to his holy Church, alleluia. (Roman Breviary Lauds, Canticle Antiphon) St. Catherine of Siena may well be the great saint for our...
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