Reflection for First Sunday of Advent
Happy New Year ! No, we have not turned the secular calendar to 2022 , rather, with the First Sunday of Advent we celebrate the beginning of a new Liturgical […]
Category: Sunday Meditations
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Reflection for Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
We all experience times when trusting in God just doesn’t seem to make sense. It may be the sudden death of a spouse or a child, learning one has a […]
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Reflection for the Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time
Most people wish to be remembered in some way after they die. Some are content to live. On through future generations of their family; while many rely on an epithet […]
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Reflection for Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
In today’s first reading the prophet Jeremiah speaks out in a way that shows him to be a man of great faith. His words are spoken to the Israelites […]
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Reflection for Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Indignant. Not a word we use with too much frequency, but we know the feeling when we experience it. The dictionary definition goes something. Along the lines of feeling, characterized […]
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Reflection for Twenty-Eight Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel Jesus encounters a man who has been faithful in his observance of the commandments but wants to be sure that he is on the road to everlasting […]
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Reflection for Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
The call to married life is a call to holiness in the very image and likeness of God. We are told that ” God is one but not solitary ” […]
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Reflection for Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
The basic Christian virtue is love. It goes in three directions: to God, to our neighbor, and to ourselves. Biblical love is primarily not an emotion – it expresses […]
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Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
There are a number of references in the Scriptures concerning wisdom. Wisdom is described by Saint James today as being pure – we could even say that wisdom is innocent. […]
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Reflection for Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
How would you feel if someone you loved very much said to you and seemed to really mean it, ” you devil, you Satan?” You would be hurt and probably […]