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Prayer for Christian Progress
As we close the month of October, I’d like to go back to how Fr. Neil opened the month. He reminded us that it is a month in which Mary is particularly celebrated by the Church. Fr. Neil walked us through the basics of the Rosary, which is a Marian devotion. Remember that every devotion Continue reading
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The Perils of Complacency
The readings this week are a call against complacency. The readings of the last weeks in the church year are all pointing to the reality that there will be a day of judgment and we will not get advance notice of that day. We have been warned in multiple ways. Last week we had the Continue reading
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Wisdom and Salvation
Today we are in the 22nd Sunday of the 34 numbered Sundays of ordinary time. Ordinary time is not ordinary in the sense that nothing special is happening; rather, it simply means these are the weeks that have numbers and are not one of the other specific seasons like Advent, Lent, Christmas or Easter. This Continue reading
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What is Mass For?
Most of you have used a hammer. If you think about a hammer, you realize that the purpose of a hammer is to reach an outcome through the hammer. You don’t just have a hammer; the hammer is for something. The hammer is for nails being driven into wood. Today, St. Paul’s letter to the Continue reading
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Peter and Paul
We celebrate today the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul rather than the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Why are they so important that their feast, which is always on June 29th, overwhelms the regular Sunday cycle? Each Saint is important to the Church, and each has had another feast day in the Church calendar Continue reading
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A Church Goverened by the Holy Spirit
With the recent Papal election still fresh in our minds, we read of the Council of Jerusalem from Acts’ Chapter 15 today. It is Scriptural confirmation about the governance of the Church. As we have moved from the reign of Pope Francis to the reign of Pope Leo XIV, it is a timely reading to Continue reading
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The First Word 2025
Good Friday 1st Word Jesus was led along with two criminals to be crucified. When they came to the Place of the Skull, as it was called, they crucified him there and the criminals as well, one on his right and the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not Continue reading
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Exodus and Repentance
The readings this Sunday focus on baptism, Exodus, and repentance. The Exodus of the Old Testament is the story of Moses leading the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt through the waters of the Red Sea. Christians see in that passage through the Red Sea a prefiguring of the waters of baptism. It Continue reading
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The Blessed Life in Christ
The gospel this morning is taken from the sixth chapter of Luke, and it is a continuation of Jesus’ preaching on the Beatitudes. We get the word Beatitudes from the scriptures because Jesus makes a number of statements in which he starts with the words, “Blessed are you if…” St. Thomas Aquinas explains beatitude this Continue reading
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The Body of Christ
The readings today give us an opportunity to think about the Church: to think about what it is, how it works, and what it does. The Church is the mystical body of Christ, as St. Paul explains to the community in Corinth. From the Creed we profess as Mass, we know the Church is the Continue reading
Bound in Love 