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July 5, 2017 Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 379 GN 21:5, 8-20A PS 34:7-8, 10-11, 12-13 MT 8:28-34 Luigi Alois Gillarduzzi Hagar und Ismael in der Wüste 1851 It is interesting how we each react in a different way to God’s presence in our life.  SometimesContinue Reading

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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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2017-06-28Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and MartyrLectionary: 373GN 15:1-12, 17-18PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9MT 7:15-20 The saying goes: “Hindsight is 20/20.”  We cannot see the future as well as we can the past.   Abraham here is going on trust alone as God Himself passes through the animals which haveContinue Reading

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June 29th, 2017Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, ApostlesMass during the DayLectionary: 591ACTS 12:1-11PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-92 TM 4:6-8, 17-18MT 16:13-19 Sometimes our own minds can be a prison so secure that no one else can free us.   In today’s reading, we see Peter bound not just onceContinue Reading

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2017-06-27Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 372GN 13:2, 5-18PS 15:2-3A, 3BC-4AB, 5MT 7:6, 12-14 Abraham was given a promise and set off in search of that promise in trust.  Lot went with him and in the process, they began to bicker as all families do.   When theContinue Reading

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2017-06-26Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 371GN 12:1-9PS 33:12-13, 18-19, 20 AND 22MT 7:1-5 Leave this place.   With those simple words, the journey of Abraham began and humanity was changed forever.   There is a great deal of courage involved when one uproots from where they areContinue Reading

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2017-06-25Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 94JER 20:10-13PS 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35ROM 5:12-15MT 10:26-33 What does it mean to deny Christ?  There is, of course, an outright, direct denial of Christ in those who claim God does not exist or that Jesus was just a man, but there is more toContinue Reading