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  • What Is Happiness, Really? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 4, 2021
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    Happiness does not come from anything this-worldly. If you restrict happiness and joy to material things, you are doomed to disappointment.

    Happiness Is . . . When I was in my teens, it was still legal to advertise cigarettes on television, so we were often overwhelmed with those kinds of commercials. I think the one that was most offensive was the one that used a popular jingle to say “Happiness is the taste of” a particular cancer ...read more

  • By Passion And Cross, Not Just Resurrection Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 12, 2021
     | 1,018 views

    Jesus tells us that he will not miss the pain and suffering, because that is an integral part of our fallen human nature, and he was like us in all things except sin.

    Monday of 11th Week in Course Church from Eucharist Today’s reading from Matthew makes me squirm a bit. Maybe you, too. In modern English, we might say, if someone takes your shirt, go to your closet and give him your sport coat as well. That’s not to mention the radical call to nonviolence we ...read more

  • Doing Battle In Charity Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 12, 2021
     | 1,462 views

    Scripture reminds us to contend with others, Christian or not, with charity as our rule of engagement.

    Homily for Monday of 11th week in Course 2 Cor 6: 1-10; Mt 5:38-42 There’s an old story that after the battle of Waterloo, someone was speaking to Lord Wellington about the superior courage of his soldiers. He is supposed to have said “our men were not braver than the enemy. They were brave five ...read more

  • The Days Vanish Like Smoke

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 20, 2022
     | 1,290 views

    The young make mistakes, and if they don’t have a strong and self-controlled father figure in their lives, they often make rash decisions and hurt themselves and others in the act.

    Saturday of the 25th Week in Course 2022 When we read this portion of the Wisdom book of Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, it is always wise itself to remember who is writing it to whom. The “preacher,” Qoheleth in Hebrew, is a wise man of advanced years. The reader or listener is redundantly called, “O ...read more

  • Choosing The Way Of Christ Over Worldly Goods.

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 24, 2022
     | 1,306 views

    The challenge of our Christian calling is to recognize the goodness of creation without building wealth, power and honor into a false god that lures us into worship.

    Twenty-sixth Sunday in Course 2022 It’s difficult for most folks in North America, especially those who aren’t fluent in several languages, to understand the full intent of the first word of our first reading today. The English has “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel ...read more

  • Jesus Is The One Who Casts Evil Out

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 29, 2022
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    Job is able to put the words “good,” “afflicted,” “learning” and “law” together in one sentence. And we could add the word "joy," too.

    Saturday of the 26th week in course Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the OT, has the prayer of somebody in the midst of a crisis: “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.” It may very well be a prayer of Job, whose life and response we have been studying over the ...read more

  • Uprooting Trees And Being Unprofitable Servants

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 30, 2022
     | 1,101 views

    God’s gift is enough for us. We just have to apply that mustard-seed faith we are given and trust that God will give us what we need.

    Twenty-seventh Sunday in Course 2022 Today’s Gospel might whipsaw our brains a little, particularly if you read the whole chapter. Right before this passage, Jesus has been warning His disciples, and therefore us, against teaching others to sin. That’s called scandal. Here He speaks about the ...read more

  • Two Gifts: Law And Faith

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 6, 2022
     | 1,198 views

    We believe Jesus, Son of Mary, Son of God. His life and teaching exemplify the real divine objective. God wants us to live and die in love.

    Saturday of the 27th week in course 2022 St. Paul is sharing his reflections with the Galatians and with us on two gifts given by the Father in His mercy. We need to first remind ourselves of the state we were in before God intervened in human history to call Abraham to be our spiritual ancestor, ...read more

  • Healing From Leprosy And Sin

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 7, 2022
     | 1,459 views

    Just as leprosy could and did kill in the time of Christ, so sin kills the life of the soul in every age of man.

    Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Course 2022 What was the worst part of leprosy in the days of Christ and even millennia before and after? I believe that the skin condition and other physical ailments were horrible experiences, as well as knowing there was no human cure. But the worst part seems to be the ...read more

  • When We Are Haled Before The Magistrate--Now What?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 13, 2022
     | 928 views

    If we deny Christ and His divine authority and eternal power, then we will be denied by Christ at the judgement, and face an eternity of suffering and radical aloneness.

    Saturday of 28th Week in Course 2022 Today’s Gospel has been misused far more times than it has been used by Christians facing martyrdom by the power of some civil or religious authority. What Jesus seems to intend in His challenge to us disciples is that when we are haled, or hauled, before ...read more

  • Leaven, For Good Or Ill

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 14, 2022
     | 819 views

    The yeast is there working, but it is not visible. It works in the whole loaf, and best in darkness.

    Friday of 28th Week in Course 2022 It’s important when we hear this Gospel from St. Luke that we position the event in the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem. Remember, Our Lord knows that He is going to Jerusalem for what on Mt. Tabor was called His Passover by Moses and Elijah. He is going up to ...read more

  • Shall We Have Justice For The Elect?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 14, 2022
     | 971 views

    If even a corrupt judge will wither under incessant pleading, can we not expect the most just of judges, God, will give us what we really need?

    29th Sunday in Course 2022 We should all remember the story of the Israelites wandering in the desert around Sinai for forty years. That was God’s way of purifying them before bringing them to the land of promise, Canaan. As they moved around, they ran into various other nomadic tribes, and one of ...read more

  • When We Forget Our Primary Duty

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 18, 2022
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     | 1,034 views

    Humans become like those rebels when they forget that their primary mission in life is to live and die in love with God and neighbor.

    Saturday of 29th Week in Course 2022 Jesus always paid attention to the local news, wherever He might have been ministering. Today’s Gospel actually gives us two situations in which Jesus gets to comment on something happening in Jerusalem, something that these days would make at least page two of ...read more

  • How Can Anyone Call Good Evil And Evil Good?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 20, 2022
     | 1,047 views

    Perhaps we can better understand how it might be that a Catholic politician would be so saturated with a dominant secular opinion, supported by millions of dollars of donations, that even the gravest anti-human evil could be good.

    Thirty-First Sunday in Course 2022 Good morning, fellow sinners. If we forget that sobering fact, the Liturgy reminds us every time we come to Mass of our moral insufficiencies. And we get to say “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault” and even strike our breasts every ...read more

  • The Prayer Of The Humble Pierces The Clouds

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2022
     | 870 views

    Paul had prayed all his life, as we should. “The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds.” God always hears our prayers.

    Thirtieth Sunday in Course 2022 It’s helpful for us, two thousand years since the events, to consider some background on this story, this parable, of Jesus about the Pharisee and the tax-collector, sometimes called the “publican.” The word “Pharisee” comes directly from the Greek. It means ...read more