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A Different Light

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Finding Our Way

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Anger

A Different Light

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The first reading extols the magnificence of creation and unveils God’s intrinsic splendour and thus reveals His wisdom.  Even a cursory glance at the human heart reveals the true magnificence …

Not to Count the Cost

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In his eagerness to make his case to the Corinthian community, Paul bursts forth in a torrent of words. He recites an impassioned litany of the hardships he has endured …

The Naming of the Three, and Their Friends

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To our beautiful story of the woman whose tears fall over Jesus’ feet is added the opening verses of the next chapter where we meet more women. These are Luke’s …

I Am a New Creation

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As old fades away, and new is yet to come, where am I? Who am I? A new creation? I want to be. I need to be. Bless the Lord, …

Finding Our Way

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“But what I say to you is offer no resistance to injury.”  Surely these words are among the hardest of Jesus’ hard sayings.  Immediately, we want to protest, “But isn’t …

Anger

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There is so much anger today: Anger at the government, schools, Churches, work, neighborhood. You are angry. Why? Is it a righteous anger? Is it because you have been hurt …

Jesus Brought a New Dimension to the Ancient Teaching

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Jesus affirms the Law in today’s Gospel, yet he seems to break it often: He permits his disciples to pick the grain on the Sabbath, he heals on the Sabbath, …

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