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Monday 25th Week of the Year
Today’s Mass Readings Monday 25th Week of the Year Luke 8:16-18. Jesus gave us His Father whom my Dad so much emulated that day and throughout his life. We all need that father figure through whom our Heavenly Father reveals Himself. When I was five or six years old my Dad was adding a bathroom […]
25th Sunday of the Year B
25th Sunday of the Year B Race you to the bottom We’re bred for competition. In the ongoing contest for limited resources, we don’t want to be without a chair when the music stops. Pitted against siblings for the finite attention of parents, the competition grows larger as we do. Schools bid us compete for […]
Saturday 24th Week of the Year
Today’s Mass Readings Saturday 24th Week of the Year Luke 8:4-15 The relationship we have with the Lord is his initiative. “Everything is grace.” (Fr. Eric Doyle.) Father Eric Boyle was a professor in the doctrine of grace. The final exam was oral, and I remember him telling us as if it happened yesterday, “Everything […]
St. Matthew Apostle September 21
Today’s Readings St. Matthew Apostle September 21. Matthew 9:9-13. Matthew rose from his tax collectors table immediately when Jesus called him. We just heard about the moment when Jesus called Matthew to follow him. One can’t help but notice when reading this Gospel, Jesus didn’t call just Matthew, but all of Matthew’s friends as well. […]