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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Our Christian life was never meant to be easy. Our Lord often tests our faith, and sometimes severely, in order to find out just how sincere we are about living out our faith. These tests may come from the circumstances around us, the times in which we live, and even…

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sermons June 21, 2020 June 20, 2020Ordinary Time 0

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

This week’s First Reading comes from the Book of Deuteronomy.  The last book of the Torah, the Books of the Law, so revered by the Jewish people, the name means “Second Law”, because it is a reiteration by Moses of the ordinances of God delivered to the second generation of…

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sermons September 2, 2018 September 1, 2018Ordinary Time 0

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Have you ever thrown a party and nobody came? In our First Reading, Wisdom personified prepares her feast — but is anyone coming? We read: – “Whoever is simple turn in here” – “To the one who lacks understanding … Come, eat my food” – “Forsake foolishness that you may…

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sermons August 19, 2018 August 17, 2018Ordinary Time 0

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The fabulous Catholic journalist  convert G.K. Chesterton often wrote stories about believers coming into conflict with atheists, and stories involving atheists coming face to face with Faith and God.  One such story had a scene in which a Catholic girl was trying to convince her atheist boyfriend to come to…

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sermons August 12, 2018 August 17, 2018Ordinary Time 0

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

In this Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we continue with Part 2 of our study of the Sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. The Church skips over the episode of Jesus’ walking on the water and picks up again when the crowd who was just fed found Him on the opposite…

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sermons August 5, 2018 August 17, 2018Ordinary Time 0

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel marks an interruption in our semi-continuous reading of the Gospel of Mark [for Year B in the Cycle of Sunday Readings].   This week begins a rather in-depth reading of the Sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, which will continue for the next five weeks.   Why John chapter…

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sermons July 29, 2018 August 17, 2018Ordinary Time 0

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

Our First Reading contains a line quoted by Our Lord during the cleansing of the Temple (Mark 11:17). At that incident, Jesus saw how the merchants and money-changers were not only using the sacred space of the Temple for their own worldly business transactions (thus profaning the holy Temple), they…

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sermons August 20, 2017 August 17, 2018Ordinary Time 1
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