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    Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time Year C- An Ophthalmologist And A Psychologist

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 27, 2025
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    We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away

    Doctor Jesus is like an ophthalmologist and a psychologist in our Gospel today. He is speaking about projection. We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away.1 We are aware of all the mitigating factors that go into our own mistakes but not those ...read more

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    Seventh Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C -- The Word Nonviolent Can Be An Adjective, It Modifies How

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 20, 2025
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    Jesus is asking us today not so much as “how can I find a gracious God? But “How can I find God in my enemy?” And, how can we be children of God in real life without loving our enemies?

    The fictional Klingon language from Star Trek has no words for love. Of course, the Klingons were creatures of pure logic, not emotion. So, the closest words for “love” in their language were “honor” or “unhate.” That would be easy for us if we could define love simply as “unhating” others. ...read more

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    Sixth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C- The Beatitudes: Area Code 212 Or 04?

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 20, 2025
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    Heaven is not just up, but in.

    The 212-area code is Manhattan, and it’s a status symbol as one of the most recognizable area codes in the United States. It’s considered more authentic than the more recent 646, 332 or 917 area codes for Manhattan. With a 212 Manhattan phone number, you’re sure to turn some heads, stand out from ...read more

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    Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C: Fishers: The Call, Objection, Assurance, And Commissioning Stories

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 8, 2025
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    “You got it bad and that ain’t good. But there is a doctor in the house and his name is Jesus."

    Robert Coles, a Pulitzer Prize winner who taught at Harvard, believes that “the characters in novels can be persistent voices reminding us of the constant temptation toward egotism, and self-deception to which the mind is heir,’ and exhorting us to live lives that are morally inspired.”1 For ...read more

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    Presentation Of The Lord In The Temple

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jan 2, 2025
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    Individuals choose their own fate by deciding for or against Jesus

    The Presentation is also Groundhog Day. Originally it was known as Candlemas Day: if it was clear and sunny on Candlemas Day, it means "winter will have another fight." Firstborn is a title. It does not imply that there is a second child. Even if a mother only had one-child like Mary, ...read more

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    Third Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C: Using Your Top Three

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Dec 30, 2024
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    Our “why” will be Biblical, related to your vocation and, within that, your specific top three charisms.

    Today is the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, now dedicated each year to promoting a love and knowledge of Scripture, it’s like our new annual “Bible Sunday” for Catholics. We hear in the three-year cycle of Sunday Mass readings, plus the two-year cycle of daily Mass readings: 13.5 percent of the Old ...read more

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    Second Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C: Cana

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Dec 23, 2024
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    Are we holding up OUR part of the covenant of our vocations?

    Jesus walks into a bar. “Just 12 waters, please,” while winking at his disciples. I saw this post on social media, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHICH PAGE OF THE BIBLE EXPLAINS HOW TO TURN WATER INTO WINE? I AM JUST ASKING FOR FRIEND. “The Church attaches great importance to Jesus’ presence at the wedding ...read more

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    The Epiphany Of The Lord- Be A Star

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Dec 19, 2024
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    “You will see his glory within you… shone anew upon the eyes of our mind!”

    The idea of "be a star" during Epiphany is a way to reflect on the story of the Magi, or the three wise men, following a star to find baby Jesus. To be a star is not the same thing as being called a star. E.g., The leader of the patriots in the second Jewish War, A.D. 130-135, Bar Kosba, ...read more

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    The Baptism Of The Lord: Baptismal Regeneration

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Dec 11, 2024
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    Be careful of those who scorn water.

    The story of the little fish swimming towards its mother, and in a panic says, “Mama, Mama, what’s water? I gotta find water or I’ll die!” "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God,” John 3:5 says. The water refers to water ...read more

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    Feast Of The Holy Family Of Jesus, Mary And Joseph, Year C

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Dec 2, 2024
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    The Basilica of the Holy Family in Barcelona, is of a fantastical design: God’s perfect design is the nuclear family: A father, a mother, and children, which maybe even includes extended family like a grandparent.

    There was a very poorly dressed woman and her young daughter looking into one of the beautiful department store display windows in the festive downtown area of a large city during Christmas time. They were looking at a manger scene, but here was the Virgin Mary dressed in rich diamonds and other ...read more

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    Third Sunday Of Advent, Year C: Advent Joy On Gaudete Sunday

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Nov 21, 2024
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    How many admonishing or warning songs or hymns can you find?

    Today the Church takes a break from the penitential color violet (often referred to as purple) which symbolizes penance particularly because Pilate dressed Jesus in a purple robe to mock his kingship. Today, however, is Gaudete Sunday and the color is Rose (often referred to as pink) as we ...read more

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    Second Sunday Of Advent, Year C: A Straight, Immovable Section.

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Nov 17, 2024
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    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 by Paul Andrew on Nov 12, 2024
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    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 by Paul Andrew on Nov 1, 2024
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    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 by Paul Andrew on Oct 16, 2024
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    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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