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Paul Andrew
Contributing sermons since Nov 12, 2016
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Second Sunday Of Advent, Year C: A Straight, Immovable Section.
Contributed on Nov 17, 2024
That dangerous S-curve was removed in 1981 and replaced by a straight, immovable section.
A man named John Hakel says his three-year-old daughter looked at a calendar and asked him, "Daddy, how many BE GOOD days until Christmas?"1 On the Second Sunday of Advent, we meet John the Baptist in the Desert: Luke 3:2: “the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the ...read more
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The First Sunday Of Advent, Year C: Not Very Christmasy.
Contributed on Nov 12, 2024
The Church tells the Christmas Story backwards: the focus is to prepare for the coming of the Lord: at the end of the world, and when Christ comes for us at the end of our individual worlds, at death.
Our Gospel from St. Luke today is a little unsettling. Not very Christmasy. Unseasonal thoughts about the end of the world. Yet, the word Advent from the Latin, adventus, means “coming.” The Church tells the Christmas Story backwards: the focus is to prepare for the coming of the Lord: at the end ...read more
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Thirty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year B: The End Of The World And Tender Branches
Contributed on Nov 1, 2024
The date of the end of the world cannot be known based on prophecy.
We are nearing the end of Ordinary Time as Advent draws near and so the theme this time of year is on the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the world. People are telling end of the world jokes like there is no tomorrow! E.g., A comedian spoke of a Pentecostal preacher who had predicted the end ...read more
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Thirty-First Sunday In Ordinary Time, B: Shema
Contributed on Oct 16, 2024
Prostrating oneself in prayer helps me to mean all the words of this creed, with all its intensity and wide scope.
This is the most Jewish and Catholic prayer possible, in our Gospel today, from Mark 12:29, which Jews call the Shema, which means “hear” in Hebrew-- we have the first line of the Shema in our Gospel today: “Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all ...read more
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Thirtieth Sunday In Ordinary Time, B: Bartimaeus
Contributed on Oct 11, 2024
Jesus never gave any person with a disability, who was begging, money or any material goods.
Bartimaeus, called “a blind man,” in Mark 10:46, is begging on Jericho Street, we hear in our Gospel today, and a verse from the First Reading, Jeremiah 31:8, describes those such as him as the “blind and the lame.” Today, we would be more sensitive and say that Bartimaeus is “person who is blind; ...read more
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God’s Blessing Signifies A Sharing In God’s Life And Power.
Contributed on Dec 9, 2017