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  • Christians And The Clash Of Cultures Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 3, 2018
     | 5,380 views

    How should Christians treat those of different cultures and traditions and religions?

    Thursday of the 5th Week in course 2018 Reformation/Revolution Our Scriptures today ought to be at least a little disturbing to us today. In first Kings, Solomon, who was the anointed of God, the heir to the great king David, apostatizes. He had what we can only call a “mess” of wives. “According ...read more

  • We Are A People Of God Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 16, 2017
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     | 3,743 views

    "To be evangelizers of souls, we need to develop a spiritual taste for being close to people’s lives."

    Thursday of 4th Week in Course 2017 Joy of the Gospel This is a solemnity, one of the three or four greatest saints festivals of the year, and it comes on the heels every year of the solemnities of Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart, and the birth of St. John the Baptist. Today we hear from St. ...read more

  • Mary, The Church And The Joy Of The Gospel Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 12, 2017
     | 2,864 views

    "He [God] will dwell forever in the knowledge and love of each faithful soul”

    Thursday of 19th Week in Course 2017 Joy of the Gospel The story of Joshua and the people of Israel crossing the Jordan River in flood season, on dry land, is reminiscent of the crossing of the sea by Israel in the time of Moses. We needn’t concern ourselves with just how it happened. Into the ...read more

  • Faith And The Two Meanings Of Works Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 14, 2017
     | 3,896 views

    Faith, above all, is a gift of God. Now it’s a gift that he pours out liberally on all humans, but it will not save our souls unless we cooperate with it.

    Thursday of 28th Week in Course 2017 Reformation Revolution Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues Our readings today say the same thing in different ways. St. Paul’s letter to the Romans was really the first work of systematic theology. It positions the saving work of Our Lord in the context of ...read more

  • The Glory We Share With The Father And Son

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 12, 2018
     | 2,806 views

    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

  • Take The Risk And Grow Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 27, 2016
     | 6,463 views

    Take the risk; take the challenge; take the grace and grow.

    Thursday of 21st Week in Course St. Paul’s words to Corinth today are like a commentary on the Gospel. Simon and the boys have been fishing all night, casting and pulling, casting and pulling. All they got was garbage. But at the word of Jesus, they put out into deep water–not the ...read more

  • The Gospel And The Court Of Herod Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 17, 2016
     | 4,359 views

    Nothing is right until we meet and allow ourselves to be transformed by the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Thursday of the 24th Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel Most of us have forgotten the scariest moment of our lives. It was about the age of two. Up to then everybody was so attentive to the little one’s needs that each of us, to the extent that we were thinking at all, had a fundamental ...read more

  • The Social Dimension Of Evangelism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 21, 2016
     | 4,419 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

  • Gather Up All Things In Christ Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 28, 2016
     | 3,408 views

    We generate history, not by politics and war, but by service to the poor and helpless.

    Thursday of the 30th Week in Course 2016 Joy of the Gospel Every time we turn a page in the New Testament, we are–if we are sensitive–struck by how counter-intuitive the Christian message is. Consider St. Paul’s life. He was, by his own account, a super-Jew. He observed every ...read more

  • Preparing For The Coming Of Christ Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 5, 2016
     | 4,111 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

  • Changing Hearts, Changing Worlds Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 11, 2016
     | 4,139 views

    The Holy Spirit knows well what is needed in every time and place.

    Thursday of 11th Week in Course There’s a contrast between our two prophets–Jesus and Elijah–in today’s Scriptures. Elijah’s missionary method was pretty direct. When Israel defected from worshiping the true God, he called down a three-year drought. When he won ...read more

  • Pray For Us Preachers Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 3, 2016
     | 4,180 views

    The homily is the touchstone for judging a pastor’s closeness and ability to communicate to his people.

    Thursday of 13th Week in Course Today Jesus’s words are about preaching and service. They are directed to us, to the clergy leaders of the Church, primarily, but really to all Christians. Saint Francis lived out this vocation–he took with him on his journeys almost nothing. He ...read more

  • Apostolic Succession, Persecution, And Joy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 24, 2014
     | 3,598 views

    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

  • Your Mission To Your Family Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 7, 2014
     | 4,126 views

    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

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

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 13, 2014
     | 4,813 views

    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