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July 4, 2017 GN 19:15-29 PS 26:2-3, 9-10, 11-12 MT 8:23-27 It’s easy to fall back into old habits.   Especially when you get with friends from long ago or people you used to work with.  As a former construction foreman, I know all too well how the mind can makeContinue Reading

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A Reflection on the readings for Daily Mass for Thursday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time, July 7, 2016. Hosea 11:1-4, 8e-9Psalm 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16The Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew 10:7-15 I was haggard and disheveled.   I hadn’t slept a wink.   My wife was even moreContinue Reading

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A reflection on the daily Mass readings for Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time (June 23, 2016) 2nd Kings 24:8-17Psalm 79The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 7:21-29 When I was four years old my dad was electrocuted in the coal mines.   His heart stopped for aContinue Reading

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This morning at Mass the Gospel reminds us that even Jesus sometimes is in a bad mood.  As he walked in the morning hours, hungry and irritable, he came upon that poor fig tree.   It hadn’t produced any figs.  Granted it wasn’t the ‘season’ for figs, but that didn’tContinue Reading

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I know what the Athenians felt like in the first reading for today as Paul began to explain to them the truth of what God expected from us in worship.  For the first 13 years of my Christian walk I was a protestant.  I didn’t even know what that meantContinue Reading

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This morning began as any other morning.  The kids and I got ready to journey out into the world of the hustle and bustle of life.  The sun was shining and while it was cold outside it was truly a beautiful moment.  We talked those inconsequential, non substantial words thatContinue Reading

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Recently in our bible study I was made aware of a quote from Origen which said “We should reverence every word of the Scriptures, the same way we reverence every particle of the consecrated host.”  Such a powerful statement that reminds me how often we are superficial in our readingContinue Reading