All posts tagged Jesu

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Our Unfulfilled Yearning Is For God!

If Paul were speaking to us he would have to speak differently. In place of altars to unknown gods we have spas, gyms, spiritual centers, arenas, nature preserves… where, through …

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Turning the Tables

A famous Presbyterian minister of the 19th century, Henry Ward Beecher, once received a letter in the mail and when he opened it, there was but one word on the …

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Easter People

The mission to Philippi begins on a high note.  Lydia’s openness to the message and her generous hospitality must have warmed the hearts of Paul and his companions.  Yet, just …

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“The World” Friend or Foe?

Is the world our friend or our foe?  How should the Christian disciple view the world?  As something to avoid or something to embrace? Jesus seems to inject an ominous …

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Saints Philip and James

On a feast of an apostle you expect to hear about one of his heroic acts or wise sayings, but in today’s reading from St. John’s gospel for the feast …

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Staying Connected

“It’s not what you know, but who you know that counts” is a familiar adage that life experience confirms. The importance of who we  know is demonstrated by our modern …

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Radical Freedom

Today’s first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, speaks of Radical Freedom.  Paul had been preaching the Good News, and was handed over to the Romans by the Jews.  …

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