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June 30, 2017 Lectionary: 375 GN 17:1, 9-10, 15-22 PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 MT 8:1-4 Our culture seems to be obsessed with the living dead.  We are bombarded with media that include sparkling vampires, lovable ogres, and even battles with the “Walking Dead.”   I can’t help but wonder if partContinue Reading

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In: Adonai, Beelzebub, choice, choose, Exodus, fence, finger, God, ground, healing, Jesus, middle, miracles, Moses, Satan, sitting

Tomorrow’s Gospel reading finds the people once again questioning Jesus and doubting in him.  They accuse him of being allied with Beelzebub, the chief of demons, the entity we know as Satan himself.  Then others were testing him asking for more miracles, more signs.  The thing is the signs wereContinue Reading

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Do you remember those posters that became popular in the early 90s?  What appeared to be a random mess of colored dots would become something amazing and three dimensional if you learned how to look at it.  If you tried too hard you would have trouble seeing it.  Only whenContinue Reading

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Tomorrow’s Gospel reading is a familiar scene to most anyone who is familiar with Christ and Christianity.  It is the story of Jesus feeding a massive crowd with just a few loaves and fish. It reminds me of the journey through the desert.  When the Israelites left Egypt they cameContinue Reading

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My wife and I were just discussing this amazing sentence in the first reading for tomorrow.  “For those who keep the holy precepts hallowed shall be found holy[..]”  I just love the way that reads in my mind.  If you keep the holy.. holy… you shall be holy.  That’s suchContinue Reading

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In: blessing, dropsy, Gospel, heal, healing, hypocrisy, hypocrite, Jesus, life, Luke, miracle, Pharisee, sick, sickness

Tomorrow’s Gospel brings to light another event that happened in the life of Jesus Christ.  This amazing healing of the man with dropsy, in and of itself, is so miraculous it should bring us to faith.  What, though, is Saint Luke trying to tell us about the Pharisee and theContinue Reading

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Today in the Gospel Reading from the Gospel of Saint Luke we see this beautiful healing take place.  This elderly woman with some condition that made it to where she could not even stand up straight, who had been crippled for eighteen long years, was chosen by God to beContinue Reading