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Suncoast Catholic Ministries Men’s Conference

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Apostolic Letter on St. Joseph

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Father Rick's Daily Commentaries

January 17, 2021, 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B
Go back to sleep SUNDAY READINGS Dear Friends, here is a story by Tom McGrath that speaks to all of us. He writes: When my daughter would tell us she wanted to teach in a foreign country one day I would silently pray that this notion of hers would pass. As her father, my thoughts […]
Saturday, January 16, 2021 1st. Week of Ordinary Time
Saturday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time Mark 2:13-17 Today’s Mass Readings We all know that in a court of law, attorneys must produce evidence that shows that a defendant has committed a crime. The jury convicts the one charged as guilty. In the times of Jesus, the whole society was the court of Law! They did not base their judgment on a single […]
Friday, January 15, 2021
Friday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time Mark 2:1-12 Daily Mass Reading We go out of our way to help the handicap. It may seem strange to us that people in today’s Gospel would not let paralytic see Jesus. In the Mediterranean mindset at that time, people would have nothing to do with the paralytic. Paralysis or any illness was […]
January 14, 2021, Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time.
Thursday 1st. Week of Ordinary Time Mark 1:40-45 The leper’s helplessness and total dependency on others broke his spirit, but it opened him to God. “If you wish, you can make me clean.” We may know someone who is enduring a long illness. The length and severity of their illness can condition them to a way of life that no longer seeks change […]