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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Destroying God’s Temple
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ November 9, 2014 Ez 47:1-2,8-9,12; Ps 46:2-3,5-6,8-9; 1 Cor 3:9c-11,16-17; Jn 2:13-22 What happens to those who destroy God’s temple? What becomes of those...
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Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time – The Moral Dimension of Touch
Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time – The Moral Dimension of Touch Sunday, Feb. 8, 2105 Jb 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23; Mk 1:29-39 A man detained in a local jail once shared with me...
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Palm Sunday – Choosing Barabbas
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion March 29, 2015 Is 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9,17-18,19-20,23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1–15:47 (or Mk 15:1-39) As we prepare for Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week this...
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Sixth Sunday of Easter – The Risk of Friendship with God
Sixth Sunday of Easter May 10, 2015 Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98:1-4; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17 To call another person one’s friend involves a good deal of risk, especially if by “friend” we intend...
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Feast of Christ the King: The Power of Christ Compels You . . . or perhaps not
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Dn 7:13-14; Ps 93: 1-2, 5; Rv 1:5-8; Jn 18: 33b-37 This Sunday – the final Sunday of our liturgical year – speaks a kind of last word...
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Nature and Ethics of a Prophet
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Nature and Ethics of a Prophet JER 1:4-5, 17-19; PS 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17; 1 COR 12:31—13:13; LK 4:21-30 As I was preparing for confirmation in junior high, I...
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Fifth Sunday of Lent – Mercy for Stone Throwers
Fifth Sunday of Lent – Sunday, March 13 – Mercy for Stone Throwers Is 43: 16-21; Ps 126: 1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6; Phil 3: 8-14; Jn 8: 1-11 A colleague of mine pulled me aside recently because this Jubilee...
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Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost Sunday – May 15, 2016 Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104: 1,24,29-30,31,34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23 Pentecost seems to be the only time many of us are completely at ease with those who are “on...
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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday, September 14, 2014 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 “For God did not send his...
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Moral Grief and Zechariah’s Spirit of Grace
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Zec 12:10-11; 13:1; Ps 63:2,3-4,5-6,8-9; Gal 3:26-29, Lk 9:18-24 Earlier this week, I received an unexpected phone call in my office. It was from a gentlemen who,...
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