Gospel Bullet Points (Mark 5:21-43)
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Gospel Bullet Points (Mark 4:35-41)
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Gospel Bullet Points (Mark 4: 26-34)
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Gospel Bullet Points (Mark 3:20-35)
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“We eat not to get full but to share.” These were the words that stuck in my head after overhearing a group of women discussing the food shortage in Cuba. At first, I didn’t understand it because what I used to know was that we eat to satisfy our hunger, to get full, and then…
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First Sunday of Advent (December 3, 2023) • Central to the celebration of Advent is the need for a vital space for God in our hearts. Advent as a preparation for Christ’s coming is nothing more and nothing less than a self-emptying patterned upon the self-emptying of Christ himself. (Jesus “emptied himself, by taking the…
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This mystery in the life of Christ is so important that we read this gospel two times a year: on the 2nd Sunday of Lent and on August 6th. [And on Cycle C, it is read a third time on Sat. 6th Week in Ord. Time, which is today Feb. 19.] While Jesus was…
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Is. 8:23 – 9:3; 1Cor. 1:10-13, 17.Matt. 4:12-23. Matthew opens our Gospel passage with a statement of fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah. Galilee, the land of Naphtali and Zebulun, was engulfed in darkness when the Assyrians conquered it in 733-32 and put in pagans occupiers to live among them. Now at Jesus’ coming…
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Is. 9:1-6; Eph. 1:3-6, 15-18Mt. 18:1-5, 10. Why did God enter our country in the image of the Holy Child? What is his message to us? In Mt. 18:3-4 we read, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself…
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