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In yesterday’s post I talked a little bit about what it means to be in Ordinary time.  I mentioned  Ordinary Time was not a plain, boring time of emptiness just waiting for another Holiday or penitential season to come along. Rather, it is an ordered time, a time in which weContinue Reading

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Ah, with tomorrow’s readings we start back into Ordinary Time.   Our English language makes that sound dry and bland, plain.  The dictionary gives it the synonyms of normal, common, routine… But that isn’t what Ordinary time is about.  The etymology of the word though, ordinalis,  shows us that the wordContinue Reading

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Tomorrow’s readings are quite interesting.  The reading from the book of Maccabees shows us the story of an elderly man who is being forced to go against his religion.  During this time Antiochus Epiphanes was persecuting the Jews and trying to force them to join a state sanctioned religion.  AntiochusContinue Reading

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Today was one of those amazing days where I got the honor of sitting in a group of men who are offering their lives in hopes of eventually being configured to Christ to the servant in Holy Orders.  It struck me as I began to read the readings for tomorrowContinue Reading