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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]
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Rebuke, revelation, and redemption: Saint Peter falters on the stormy waters
Readings: • 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a • Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 • Rom. 9:1-5 • Mt 14:22-23 A few years ago, I led a Bible study through the Book of Proverbs. It is, of […]
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The miracle of the loaves and fishes is a microcosm of salvation history
Readings: • Isa 55:1-3 • Psa 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 • Rom 8:35, 37-39 • Matt 14:13-21 The story of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand is well known. It appears in all […]
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Christ is the treasure hidden in the field
Readings: • 1 Kngs 3:5, 7-12 • Psa 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 • Rom 8:28-30 • Mt 13:44-52 How good are you and I at recognizing something that is valuable, even priceless? That question […]
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Weeds, seeds, and “a coded letter left by a Lover”
Readings: • Wis 12:13, 16-19 • Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 • Rom 8:26-27 • Mt 13:24-43 What is the Kingdom of God? How does it come about? And how will it grow? These are some […]
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The Incarnate Word draws upon creation to reveal salvation and the Kingdom
Readings: • Isa 55:10-11 • Psa 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 • Rom 8:18-23 • Matt 13:1-23 This Sunday’s readings each refer, in some way, to creation and the natural world. And each also reveals something […]
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The Incarnation and three metaphysical paradoxes
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, 1947), distinguished between two types of paradox. […]
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Sts Peter and Paul: Key witnesses to the reality and veracity of Jesus Christ
Readings: • Acts 12:1-11 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18 • Mt 16:13-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was chosen by Christ after he […]
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St. John the Baptist: Called by the Father, filled with the Spirit, proclaiming the Son
On the Readings for Sunday, June 24, 2012, The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist […]
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Death is inevitable, but damnation is not
Readings: • Jer 20:10-13 • Psa 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35 • Rom 5:12-15 • Matt 10:26-33 Recently, while watching a basketball game on television, I was horrified when a commercial came on that was completely inappropriate […]