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A Reflection on the readings for Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time: July 12th, 2016 Isaiah 7:1-9Psalm 48The Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew 11:20-24 When we are surrounded by evil our fearful instinct is often to close in on ourselves.  After the attacks on the World TradeContinue 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 readings for Friday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time, July 1, 2016. Amos 8:4-6, 9-12Psalm 119:2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131The Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew 9:9-13 I almost did not write a blog today.  You see, my summer assignment was to write threeContinue Reading

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A Reflection on the readings for Daily Mass, June 30, 2016. Amos 7:10-17Psalm 19:8-11The Holy Gospel According to Matthew 9:1-8 When I was younger my grandfather kept telling me not to go down around his garden.   He had this electric fence that he had put in.  He told usContinue Reading

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A Reflection for the Daily Readings for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, June 29th, 2016 Acts 12:1-11Psalms 34:2-92 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18The Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew 16:13-19 Over a decade ago I was going through a rough patch in my life.  A broken relationship, a house thatContinue Reading

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A Reflection on the Readings for June 28, 2016.  The Memorial of St. Irenaeus. Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12Psalm 5The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 8:23-27 I used to hang out with this friend of mine after work.  We’d sit around having a few drinks.   He’d then bring out hisContinue Reading

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A Reflection on the Readings for Sunday, June 26, 2016. 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21Psalm 16Galatians 5:1, 13-18The Holy Gospel According to Luke 9:51-62 Elijah is sent in the first reading to conscript Elisha into service.  Elisha is apparently not just a poor farmer, but rather from a very wealthy family.Continue Reading