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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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The more I study scripture, the more I realize how we humans seem to repeat the same patterns over and over.  The Israelites of the old testament consistently came back to God.. but then as soon as they got comfortable… fell off again to do other things. An endless cycleContinue Reading

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This morning was absolutely horrible. Do you know the kind of day I’m talking about? Where everything seems like it’s out to get you and even the furniture is on the attack? It all began with a nice alarm blaring in my ear… apparently for over 30 minutes. As IContinue Reading