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  • Free To Serve, Or Not Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 14, 2015
     | 3,956 views

    We will be judged on our service to the poor--but do our social systems make it easy or difficult to do so?

    Thursday of 33rd week in course 2015 Joy of the Gospel Two things tie our Scriptures together today. The obvious one is that they are texts written in or about a time of injustice and disaster. In the first reading, the Syrian king Antiochus IV has decreed that all his subjects would act like ...read more

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

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 24, 2015
     | 3,972 views

    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

  • The Social Dimension Of Evangelism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2016
     | 4,388 views

    "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

  • Preparing For The Coming Of Christ Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 5, 2016
     | 4,078 views

    An authentic faith – which is never comfortable or completely personal – always involves a deep desire to change the world

    Thursday of the 31st Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel We stand now very close to the conclusion of our liturgical year, our holy year of grace and mercy that concludes on the Feast of Christ the King. I’m doubly blessed because I get to celebrate Christ the King Sunday twice. In the ...read more

  • The End And The Reward Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 12, 2016
     | 4,453 views

    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

  • "The Intersection Of Faith And Doubt"

    Contributed by David Henderson on Dec 29, 2016
     | 7,881 views

    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

  • How Much Must We Do? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 30, 2016
     | 5,650 views

    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

  • Justified By Faith And Living In Love Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 6, 2018
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     | 4,457 views

    “Luther’s expression sola fide is true if faith is not opposed to charity, to love.”

    Thursday After Epiphany 2018 Reformation/Revolution The action of the Israelites and the response of the Philistines we have heard proclaimed from the first book of Samuel help us see the two primitive and wrong conceptions of the divine. For the Israelites, their God was the God of Moses who had ...read more

  • Religious Freedom, Fundamental Human Right Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 9, 2016
     | 4,335 views

    Religious freedom is a fundamental human right that is not restricted to the confines of a church.

    Thursday in Third Week of Easter 2016 Joy of the Gospel Those of us who are blessed to be in the Catholic church for many decades tend to take for granted our sacramental realities, especially the Blessed Eucharist. I recall reading about a Muslim who, though totally without faith in the ...read more

  • The Need For Contemplation Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 30, 2016
     | 4,546 views

    Our mission to others must be underlaid with a foundation of personal devotion to Jesus Christ.

    Thursday in 6th Week of Easter 2016 Joy of the Gospel St. Paul’s relationship with the church at Corinth was long, fruitful, and fraught with problems. But it is Corinth that gives us testimony of the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles. “Before AD 50, an area 62 feet ...read more

  • Unity Over Conflict Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 6, 2016
     | 5,062 views

    Christ has made all things one in himself, and we must strive for unity if we are to have peace.

    Thursday after Ash Wednesday 2016 Joy of the Gospel There really is only one choice in this life. We either choose to walk in the path set down by Our Lord or we don’t. Psalm 1, which we just prayed, says it very well: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, ...read more

  • The Dialogue Of Ecumenism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 12, 2016
     | 3,739 views

    Our prayer is that all Christians be One.

    Thursday of Fifth Week in Lent 2016 Joy of the Gospel The providential juxtaposition of St. Patrick’s Day with the readings of this Lenten feria should lead us to make a comparison between the call of St. Patrick and the call of the Hebrew patriarchs. Patrick was called by God to return ...read more

  • Our Duty To Educate The Poor Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 4, 2019
     | 2,019 views

    Religious argument, we know, is not a bad thing. It can actually lead us forward and help us truly understand how to advance the Gospel.

    Tuesday of 3rd Week in Easter 2019 Rosa Venerini Over the years I have been in ministry, first as a layman and now as a deacon, I have known many Christians, Catholics of course, but men and women and teens with various denominations. One thing I am convinced of is that most people loathe ...read more

  • Husband, Not Baal Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 10, 2020
     | 2,122 views

    How does the Gospel apply to the current unpleasantness, or any other crisis in which there is a lot of economic distress?

    Tuesday of the 19th Week in Course 2020 St. Clair Why did the people of Israel, the Chosen People of the True God, in the language of the Bible, go “whoring” after false gods, when week after week they had heard the story of their God, the One who loved them and rescued them from Egyptian slavery? ...read more

  • Beatitudes: A Program Of Life Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 30, 2010
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     | 3,815 views

    Our worship must be an authentic and total gift of self in the spirit of the Beatitudes

    All Saints Day Nov 1 2010 The Spirit of the Liturgy Today is part of what we might call a great cosmic convergence, at least for our nation. Yesterday was both Hallowe’en, and, for Protestants, what they call Reformation Sunday, the anniversary of the great religious revolution that split ...read more