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My daughter knows that if she asks me for something to eat I will give it to her.  It did not matter if it was two in the morning or the afternoon, if she was hungry I fed her.   I explained to my wife that one of my father’sContinue Reading

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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 daily Mass readings for Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time: July 11, 2016. Isaiah 1:10-17Psalm 50The Holy Gospel According to Matthew 10:34-11:1 This morning as I was reading the Mass readings for today, I was reminded of something that happened this weekend on theContinue 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 Wednesday of the twelfth week of Ordinary Time, July 6, 2016. Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12Psalm 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10:1-7 Today is the Memorial for Saint Maria Goretti Maria Goretti was born to poor farm laborers in Corinaldo,Continue Reading

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A reflection on the readings for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary time, June 03, 2016. Isaiah 66:10-14c Psalm 66:1-7, 16, 20Galatians 6:14-18The Holy Gospel According to Saint Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 Society wants to blur the lines between male and female, man and woman, father and mother, man and wife. TheyContinue 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