Today’ Mass Readings Thursday after Ash Wednesday Luke 9:22-25. How we carry our cross every day can affect the lives and spirituality of many, many people. Fr. Michael Gaitley relates the story of a father who knows his child must undergo a very serious surgery. Without the surgery, the child would never heal and could […]
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Today’s Scripture Readings Ash Wednesday. Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18. We are all used to attention getters. Commercials use them to draw our attention to their products. Homilists do the same thing to help us focus on a point they are making. So the question Jesus proposes in today’s gospel is, “Who gets all the attention when […]
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Today’s Readings Tuesday 7th Week of the Year Mark 9:30-37 A humbling love for the sake of another is true greatness in God’s eyes. In today’s gospel, Jesus gave us two examples of true greatness in the eyes of God. One was with words and one was with his behavior towards his disciples. He spoke […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Monday 7th Week of the Year Mark 9:14-29. Healing, driving out demons, any miracle is always the work of the compassionate and merciful heart of Jesus in us. Trust Jesus whose Heart is full of mercy and compassion. The disciples had driven out demons on their first missionary journey. But this one […]
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7th Sunday of the Year A Matthew 5:43-48. Changing the word, “enemy” to “unlovable” might help us to come closer to what Jesus is teaching us about loving our enemies. “Love the unlovable and pray for those who are unlovable to us. This passage on loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Saturday 6th Week of the Year Mark 9:2-10 Two Transfigurations of Jesus – the mount of the Transfiguration and the mount of Calvary. Every time we celebrate the Holy Mass two mountains come together, Mount of Transfiguration and Mount Calvary. We are on the mountain with Jesus and his disciples during his […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Friday 6th Week of the Year Mark 8:34-9:1 The cross is a source of deep joy when we bear it in love. There comes a point in our relationship with the Lord Jesus that we will be faced with suffering, in short, the cross. This is true with any relationship. Love […]
Read moreThursday 6th Week of the Year
Today’s Mass Readings Thursday 6th Week of the Year Mark 8:27-33. How to keep our human person secure from any attack? Identity theft is a big problem today. Companies are constantly trying to keep ahead of thieves. There is another identity far more important than information we have about ourselves and our bank accounts. It’s […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Wednesday 6th Week of the Year. Mark 8:22-26. Sometimes our healing takes time. Jesus knew the blind man needed extra attention, so he took him outside the village away from all distractions and healed his blindness in stages. Let us never give up on Jesus or ourselves when things aren’t perfect. Conversion […]
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Today’ Mass Readings Tuesday 6th Week of the Year. This leaven of the Pharisees, trusting in ourselves, hardens a person’s heart to Jesus. Mark 8:14-21. It’s amazing what God can do with ordinary people who don’t get it. Children in school who don’t get it the first time around go to summer camp. They either […]
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