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Life in the Resurrection and the Kingdom of God
The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C – November 10, 2013 Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition from the very beginning. On no point does the...
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“Let them grow together until harvest…”
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A – July 20, 2014 Once again in this week’s Gospel passage, images of growing trees, shrubs and plants provide us with powerful insights into the quiet and slow...
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Are we faithful and generous workers in his vineyard?
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A – September 28, 2014 Immediately preceding today’s Gospel story, Jesus has returned to the Temple (Matthew 21:23a) and reclaimed this sacred space for his...
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The Lord Will Never Abandon His Vineyard
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A – October 5, 2014 We are back in the vineyard again this week, immersed in another of Matthew’s complex Gospel parables. Jesus told these parables in...
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What Christ Has Given Us Is Multiplied In Its Giving
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A – November 16, 2014 Today’s Gospel story presents us with the last of the three parables that form Jesus’ final discourse in Matthew’s Gospel. Each of the...
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The Universe Turns Upon a Cup of Water Given to the Little Ones
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Year A – Sunday, November 23, 2014 During my graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in the late 1980s, I had the...
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The Slow Progress in the Growth of God’s Kingdom
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B – June 14, 2015 The growth of plants, trees, flowers and grass, takes place very quietly and slowly, without our knowing. This growth permeates three of the...
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Life in the Resurrection and the Kingdom of God
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C – November 6th, 2016 Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition from the very beginning. On no point does the...
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A King’s Prayer and a Kingdom’s Hope
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A – July 30th, 2017 Solomon seeks wisdom It is important to know the historical background for today’s first reading from the First Book of Kings 3:5-12....
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Pope’s General Audience – Aug 24, 2022
Guido Reni, The Assumption of Virgin Mary (1638-9), Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Germany) (Source: Wikimedia Commons) In today’s catechesis on old age, Pope Francis reflects on the Assumption of Mary and...
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