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    Stewardship, Solidarity And Wages Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 7, 2015
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    A just social system must come from the conversion of many minds and hearts.

    Thursday of 32nd week in course 2015 Joy of the Gospel What is the kingdom of God? Is it imposed from outside ourselves? Jesus is very clear on this point. The various sects and political parties in Palestine during the first century thought that the reign of God would be imposed, especially ...read more

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    The Joy Of The Gospel And The Option For The Poor Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 24, 2015
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    When we act in favor of the poor–either by providing housing and food and medical care or by helping them to build systems that provide those things–we are acting as the Father and Son have done for us.

    Thursday of 1st week in Advent 2015 Joy of the Gospel During the time of Advent, we look forward to the return of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The prophet Isaiah speaks of this “day of the Lord” as one based on the security provided the faithful by the Rock, the Lord God. The haughty and ...read more

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    The Social Dimension Of Evangelism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2016
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    "the service of charity is also a constituent element of the Church’s mission and an indispensable expression of her very being."

    Thursday of the 29th Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel Why did Herod and the Pharisees hate Jesus so much that they endeavored to kill Him, and not only once? And why ultimately did Jesus lay this curse on Jerusalem, or, rather, turn their curse on themselves, so that in 67 AD the Jews ...read more

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    Apostolic Succession, Persecution, And Joy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 24, 2014
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    Thanks to the Church's magisterium, we know what Jesus taught, and we can rejoice, even amid persecution.

    Thursday of the 6th Week of Easter EF: Ascension Day; OF: Easter Weekday Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles gives us one of those rare and precious bits of information that helps us to date the journeys of Paul and his letters. And it does so in one of the most important of his ...read more

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    Your Mission To Your Family Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 7, 2014
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    We are sent to be a gift, a blessing, to every human being we encounter, especially in our family.

    Thursday of the 10th Week in Course 2014 Lumen Fidei One of the beautiful things we lost with the new liturgical calendar is the Octave of Pentecost. Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, the day when evangelization of the nations began in earnest and in the Holy Spirit, so it deserves to be ...read more

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    God Does Want Humans To Be One In Mind And Heart Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 13, 2014
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    Faith gives us a heightened respect for nature so that we "discern in it a grammar written by the hand of God." God's Fatherhood makes it possible for us to live together with one heart and one will.

    Thursday of the 11th Week in Course 2014 Lumen Fidei Where did we get the idea that God is our Father? Surely the definitive statement of God’s fatherhood is in this prayer we learned from Jesus, the Son. Still, we didn’t fully know what a father is until Jesus came and established ...read more

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    The True Summit Of Our Vocation As Human Beings Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 7, 2011
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    Music must be in harmony with Logos, not an offbeat and disordered hymn to individualism.

    Monday of 3rd Week of Easter Spirit of the Liturgy The Spirit that inflamed deacon Stephen is always at work in the Church. This spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, fills those who respond to the gift of faith, and makes us hungry for the Word of God, the Sacrament of the altar, and service to those ...read more

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    Seeing And Hearing In Order To Live Christ's Life

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 11, 2014
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    We cannot make Jesus into the Messiah we want; we must see His vision and hear His word so that His kingdom can be built within us, and we then can attract others to Him.

    Thursday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time Lumen Fidei Why are we so unwilling to do what Our Lord commands? The Israelites were directed by God to be His presence in a pagan world, spreading the word about His power and goodness, and ultimately drawing all to worship the One God. But if you look ...read more

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    Faith: Touching And Being Touched By Jesus

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 18, 2014
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    "the light of love is born when our hearts are touched and we open ourselves to the interior presence of the beloved"

    Thursday of 2nd Week in Ordinary Time 2014 Lumen Fidei King Saul of Israel exhibited what we might call paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. He had an on-off relationship with his son, Jonathan, and the same kind of relationship, but even more intense, with the man he considered his main rival, ...read more

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    Seeing The Plan And Hearing The Word

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 25, 2014
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    Like Augustine, we must integrate into our lives the need to see God's vision and to hear God's call.

    Thursday of 3rd Week in Course 2014 Lumen Fidei The vision of God is always broader and deeper than any plan of a human. King David was in a really good mind when he wrote this prayer of thanksgiving to God. Remember that Saul, his predecessor, had wanted a dynasty, but he turned against ...read more

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    Evangelization Has Many Forms--Some That Would Not Work Today

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 11, 2018
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    Forgive those who offend you or God cannot forgive your own sins. Be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful.

    Thursday of 19th Week in Course St Stephen of Hungary Today’s first reading, from the prophet Ezekiel, is so short that it tends to run right through our heads without finding purchase. So I’ll read it again, The word of the LORD came to me: 2"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious ...read more

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    The End And The Reward Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 12, 2016
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    Paul is not focusing on sinful behavior we should avoid, but on exemplary behavior we should practice.

    24th or Last Sunday of the Year 2016 Extraordinary Form The five hundred year period since the end of the Renaissance has been marked by two events we Catholics can realistically call religious catastrophes. The first, of course, was the Protestant revolution most agree was begun by Martin Luther ...read more

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    "The Intersection Of Faith And Doubt"

    Contributed by David Henderson on Dec 29, 2016
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    We know from previous passages of scripture that Jesus had given them the authority to heal and they had been successful many times. But this time they seem to be in over their heads. They pray and nothing happens.

    "The Intersection of Faith and Doubt" Mark 9:14-24 We find in the scripture that nearly 40 times Jesus performed an act of healing. Water to wine. Fed 5000 without very little food. He healed the blind, the deaf; the lame. And the reason was simple: it was never just about the healing…it was ...read more

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    How Much Must We Do? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 30, 2016
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    It’s ironic that when dealing with these positive commandments, we don’t ever come to a point when we can say, “I have fulfilled them.”

    Thursday before Epiphany 2017 Joy of the Gospel St. John teaches us today in both Epistle and Gospel: “By this we know love, that [Jesus] laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet ...read more

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    The Glory We Share With The Father And Son

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 12, 2018
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    St. Gregory of Nyssa, and other Fathers of the Church, teach that the glory of the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit, who is love. The glory we are given is the Holy Spirit who enables us to image Christ in our world.

    Thursday of the 7th Week of Easter 2018 St. Paschal Baylon The prayer of Jesus we just heard from St. John is part of the High Priestly Prayer Our Lord offered at the Last Supper. If you look carefully at it, you might call it the first Eucharistic Prayer, and here you find Christ offering His ...read more

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