Faith to Evangelize Without Seeing Fruit
“I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother.” Hard words from today’s Gospel (Mt 10:34-11:1). But, I’m going to warn you…
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Just Do It!
Readings for July 12, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Everybody likes free gifts. Advertisers know that a campaign will have much better results if there are free samples…
Miracles Jesus Couldn’t Do
Readings for July 5, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Over the last two Sundays, the gospel of Mark has been making it abundantly clear that Jesus is indeed…
The Flexibility To Serve
I’ve always found today’s Gospel reading difficult to understand. It felt as though Jesus was light years ahead of John’s disciples, and even his own for that matter.…
A Revolutionary Approach to the Bible: Jairus’ daughter & The Enlightenment
Readings for June 28, 2015, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time In the days when states were still “the colonies” and men wore powdered wigs, a new way of…
A Seeking Heart: Lost and Found
Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a…
Just a Dozen
If you are at all familiar with current culture you know that as far as our cultural values go, more is better! We have seen the quantities of…
Let me Ask you a Question
Readings for June 21, 2015, Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Have you ever had a teacher who drones on and on? Fact upon fact, argument upon argument. The…
And They’ll Know…
John 13:33-38 ‘Little children, I shall be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and, as I told the Jews, where I am going,…
Go Forth
The Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from the land of your kinfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1,…