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Spiritual Enology: Parable of the the Vine and the Branches
5th Sunday of Easter I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Jn. 15:5 In the second half of the 19th...
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The “No greater Love” and Us
6th Sunday of Easter 2015 Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. Jn. 15:10 We are now but a...
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His Ascension, Ours
Ascension 2015 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses … to the ends of the earth. When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up,...
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Truth about God is Critical for Man and Society
Trinity Sunday 2015 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have...
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Eucharist and Church – the Radical Connection is in Us
Corpus Christi 2015 In the final lines of St. Matthew’s Gospel, Our Divine Savior, who was about to ascend to the Father, reassures his disciples of his continued presence with them, with these...
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Whose Religious Freedom Now?
12th Sunday of Ordinary Time When I was attending parochial school, many, many years ago, the Sisters had us pray regularly for the conversion of Russia and China, placers where Christians were being...
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Death to Life – Christian faith
13th Sunday of Ordinary Time For God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made him Wisdom 1:14 When St. Francis of Assisi was told by his physician that he had but a few weeks...
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Can we ever love God perfectly? Yes! It’s Our Hope.
14th Sunday of the Year Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, rebels who have rebelled against me. (Ez. 2:3) He was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark: 6:6) The most interesting perspective...
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The Eucharist: food for Eternal Life and seed of Resurrection
17th Sunday in ordinary Time Elisha again said, …‘They shall eat and there shall be some left over.’” And when they had eaten, there was some left over,...
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Mary, Mother of God, we salute you.
I will certainly go with you,” she replied, “but you will not gain glory for the expedition on which you are setting out, for it is into a woman’s power that the LORD is going to sell Sisera. Judges...
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Mary’s Assumption and the Truth about Our Bodies
Solemnity of the Assumption – 2015 They brought in the ark of God and set it within the tent… I Chr. 16 One of the favorite subjects of medieval and renaissance art was the Virgin Mary standing...
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Mary and the Rejection at Nazareth
Monday of the 22nd Week They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. There is so much that could, should...
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Faith Truly Astonishes Us
23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak. How often in our lives do we find ourselves...
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You are The Christ – Defending our Faith
24th Sunday of Ordinary Time The Gospel today presents a rather timely subject given the current turbulences in the Muslim world. Today we are witnessing horrors in the Middle East and Africa as...
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The Temple of God: Where is the Temple of God?
The biblical account of the rebuilding of the temple after the Babylonian exile is really quite fascinating. Unless one understands the history that preceded this event, it’s understandable that one...
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Respect Life by Respecting Truth
27th Sunday 2015 – Respect Life Today, the first Sunday in October, is traditionally the Catholic Church’s Respect Life Sunday in our country. In Catholic teaching on the human person, we see the...
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The Only Path for us to Complete Happiness
28th Sunday of the Year “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” This question the young man puts to Jesus is in fact the most fundamental question for every person’s life, even if...
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Deadly Ambition in the Church
29th Sunday of Ordinary Time “whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.“ If we want to see just how human the apostles...
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The Eucharist: food for Eternal Life and seed of Resurrection
17th Sunday in ordinary Time Elisha again said, …‘They shall eat and there shall be some left over.’” And when they had eaten, there was some left over,...
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Mary, Mother of God, we salute you.
I will certainly go with you,” she replied, “but you will not gain glory for the expedition on which you are setting out, for it is into a woman’s power that the LORD is going to sell Sisera. Judges...
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