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Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 355 TB 3:1-11A, 16-17A PS 25:2-3, 4-5AB, 6 AND 7BC, 8-9 MK 12:18-27 One of the things we must keep in mind as an evangelist is our audience.   When speaking to a man who only knows farming, one would not speakContinue Reading

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When I first had my back surgery I struggled with my identity.  Especially as a man who grew up in a place where a man’s worth was directly tied to his ability to provide for his wife, I floundered to find a new way to be a husband, father, andContinue Reading

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Tobit is a powerful reminder of the need of the faithful to remain in fidelity to the covenant.  Here we see a man who has already lost his livelihood for his continued obedience to the Traditions of worship as set forth in Jerusalem.   Tobit refuses to take on theContinue Reading

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When I was a young man I began to look around for a Church that was more vibrant, more active.  Though I was very happy with the Christianity I had been shown in the Baptist church, there was something missing.  I didn’t understand the Methodist Church and its symbols.  IContinue Reading

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It’s easy to get in a rut.   Our lives go on with the same patterns and we find ourselves doing the same things over and over.  For some of us, that’s a Godsend.  I thrive on patterns.   Having a schedule of what is coming up next is ofContinue Reading

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Times of transition do not come easily to we humans.  We like our traditions.   Often when we have someone new in our midst we teach them to do things the way they’ve always been done.  Tradition can be good.   As a man who was once a Protestant andContinue Reading

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I had seen childbirth on television growing up.  My mother was training to be a nurse and dinner was often interspersed with videos of surgeries, deliveries, and many other things that didn’t go well with spaghetti sauce or hot dogs.  It was an interesting time for me to see thingsContinue Reading