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Reflection on Readings for 2nd Sunday of Lent: God is faithful to all who step out in faith. In our Lenten journey we are challenged to step out in faith as did Isaac, Abraham, Jesus and his disciples to experience the faithfulness of God. Abraham trusted in God’s promise. Jesus trusted in His Father to death and to Resurrection. Lent is [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 1stSunday of Lent: The Season of Lent is a time to reflect on God’s goodness and to decide an appropriate response to it. Faith gives us the courage and strength to take whatever steps we need to take. What expectations do we have for Jesus? Do we bring our friends to Jesus? How do we bring comfort [...]
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Reflections on the Season of Lent: Lent is a time for a powerful journey of spiritual renewal. As many of us understand the season of Lent moves very rapidly each year so from the beginning of this season we need to wish and resolve in our hearts how this Lent is going to be renewing and revitalizing. Lent is a [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Have we or the world lost the sense of sin? Sin is a spiritual paralysis. The theme of today‘s readings is God‘s forgiveness of our sins. Forgiveness is a major theme of Sacred Scripture that appears about 150 times in the Bible. The theme of forgiveness makes up a major part of [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Each day as we awake it is helpful to ask ourselves how is this day going to be special and who am I going to bring God to. How do we think of the feelings and needs of others? How do we live on behalf of the Gospels? Each of us [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time: In today‘s Gospel we observe that many people were looking for Jesus. People look to Jesus to be healed. What are we looking to Jesus for and what do we do to help others? In today‘s readings we see three different people on their faith journey. We can each identify with one [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus introduced a new way, the kingdom of God. Jesus knew His people very well and greatly loved them. Please notice that even in dealing with a difficult crowd Jesus showed authority that was liberating. From the beginning of His ministry Jesus was dealing with difficult groups of people at different times. Anyone [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Each of us is called to witness to God by our lives. To follow the Lord means to stand up for the sacredness of all of life. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus began His public ministry with “Repent and believe”. God calls us for immediate response. This means each [...]
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Reflection on Readings for 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Each of us is called to witness to God by our lives. On Tuesday of this past week we entered back into ordinary time in the cycle of the church year. This is why the priest is wearing green vestments to celebrate Mass. The readings at Mass today invite us to look [...]
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