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    Specks, Logs And Improving Our Vision

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 26, 2025
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    We all know that the Internet has given us lots of opportunities to be tempted to sin, hasn’t it? Is the temptation itself sinful?

    Eighth Sunday in Course 2025 Some people don’t have the deuterocanonical book of Sirach in their Bibles, so I’ll read some of the first reading. Sirach was written in Hebrew, but over the years those versions were mostly lost, but survive in Greek. The book is mostly a compilation of proverbs, ...read more

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    Hardness Of Heart Or True Friendship

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 24, 2025
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    Tested friends are the most valuable ones, sturdy shelters against future adversity.

    Friday of the Seventh Week in Course 2025 Jeshua ben Sira was an Alexandrian Jew who spoke both Hebrew and Greek. About two hundred years before Jesus Christ his family gave us a compilation of his writings, which we call the Book of Sirach. It was used so often in the early Church that it ...read more

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    No Mediocrity Allowed Here

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 19, 2025
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    Did the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Lord and God and Creator of the Universe, put aside His transcendent glory and empty Himself, coming down all the way to assume our weak human nature so that we could “get by”?

    Seventh Sunday in Course 2025 Unless you have a pretty strong grounding in what we used to call “Bible History,” today’s first reading could leave you a little blindsided, that is until you heard the Gospel. King Saul, first king of the Israelite kingdom, had taken three thousand of his best ...read more

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    Making A Name For Ourselves Fails The Test Of Joy

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 17, 2025
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    We have a tendency to believe our own publicity, and feel best about ourselves when we own the deeds to lots of stuff.

    Friday of the Sixth Week in Course 2025 “Let’s make a name for ourselves” hints that the first reading, from Genesis, is really talking about the results of human pride. Migrating people from the far reaches of Asia are imagined coming together in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. ...read more

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    Black And White Morality--Absolutely!

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 12, 2025
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    Jeremiah knew what God wanted for them, but they continually rebelled.

    Sixth Sunday in Course 2025 It’s likely that if you were educated, as I was, mostly in the 1960s or later, you might have bristled a bit at today’s Scripture passages. They have moral language that is very much black-and-white. If you trust in God and follow His way, you’ll bear much fruit; if you ...read more

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    The Mission Transcends Mere Geography

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 9, 2025
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    The fame of Jesus spread far from Capernaum and His words and healing were affecting many thousands, preparing both Jew and Gentile for the expansion of the Church after Pentecost .

    Friday of the Fifth Week in Course 2025 Most modern Christians in North America, I believe, are unfamiliar with first-century geography, even of the Holy Land. I think if I use a midwestern U.S. parable, it might be easier to envision than what St. Mark records in his Gospel here. Let’s try ...read more

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    Third Sunday Of Lent, Year C- Exhausting The Soil Or Bearing Fruit

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Feb 8, 2025
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    I believe that there are a number of Christians living in their spiritual grace period

    Jerry Flury, who once worked in the insurance industry, said, “I constantly had to deal with people seeking to maintain their policies perpetually in what they referred to as the policy’s grace period. A grace period is defined as the additional period of time a lender, or an insurance policy ...read more

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    Second Sunday Of Lent: Transfiguration Year C-- Higher Leagues

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Feb 8, 2025
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    Lessons from the heavenly three and the earthly three

    There was a baseball player, Brooks Robinson, former third baseman of the Baltimore Orioles. In his entire 23-year career, he is considered the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history. “It was often said of Brooks that he played third base as if he "came down from a higher ...read more

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    First Sunday Of Lent, Year C--Assume The Power, The Devil Told Him

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Feb 7, 2025
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    An image or fantasy is presented to me...

    Satan tries to drive a wedge between Jesus and his Father. “If you are the Son of God,” Satan begins two his temptations. Same with us, with baptism, “If you are a child of God.” Doubting baptismal identity. Lent is a time of self-appraisal and accountability. When we remember and reflect on our ...read more

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    Sinful But Called

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 5, 2025
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    The power of God’s word, spoken to Peter and the others by the very Word of God, Son of the Father, was enough to kick in the adrenaline and motivate the fishermen to fish longer in the worst time of day in the part of the lake with the worst prospects.

    Fifth Sunday in Course 2025 The first thing that strikes me as I read today’s Gospel is that Peter and his fishing crew had been working all night and then had cleaned their nets. These professionals had just worked at least ten hours and were ready to go home. Jesus came along with hundreds of ...read more

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    Principles Of Christian Leadership And Discipleship

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 4, 2025
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    Herod Antipas is pictured as exactly opposite of Jesus in leadership.

    Friday of the Fourth Week in Course 2025 Today’s Gospel is a reminder to us of the many pitfalls of having power, money, and an inflated ego. There are several Herods in the NT. All of them were suffragans of Rome, who granted them rights to rule others, take bribes and taxes, and surround ...read more

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    Homecoming To The Temple

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 30, 2025
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    Joseph and Mary brought their newborn Jesus into the Temple for a solemn ceremony.

    Homecoming Today’s feast is a commemoration of the wonderful moment when Jesus, the Messiah and Son of God, comes home to the Temple at Jerusalem. Homecoming is a wonderful moment in life. I recall decades ago, flying into our South Texas airport after a one-week training session, and my whole ...read more

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    We Know Not How But We Work Hard Anyway

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 28, 2025
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    Jesus is describing the Kingdom of God, which on earth is the Church He deputized to continue His mission to the world.

    Friday of the Third Week in Course 2025 Mark’s Gospel today gives us a little story that is found in no other place in the NT. Like so many of the Jesus stories, it is about agriculture. Jesus is describing the Kingdom of God, which on earth is the Church He deputized to continue His mission to ...read more

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    Why Did Jesus Have To Return To Heaven?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 28, 2025
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    Couldn’t Jesus have stayed on earth and God would have done all that?

    Ascension Thoughts 2025 Why did Jesus ascend into heaven? Wouldn’t it be better if He remained here on earth. And, besides, Matthew records that He said “Behold, I am with you always, even until the end of days.” We know that when the Church celebrates the Ascension, forty days after Easter, we ...read more

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    Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time Year C- Mote And Beam

    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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