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The prayer that we breathe
Readings: • Ex 17:8-13 • Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 • 2 Tm 3:14-4:2 • Lk 18:1-8 How long can any of us live without air? A few minutes at best? How long can we […]
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Apocalypse How?
Readings: • Acts 13:14, 43-52 • Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rev 7:9, 14b-17 • Jn 10:27-30 Pop quiz: which book of the Bible describes black helicopters, high-tech warfare involving Russia and China, and computer […]
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Easter Vigil: A night different from every other night
“Why is this night different from every other night?” That is the question asked by the youngest at each Passover seder. When we apply it to our own celebration, we discover that the world cannot […]
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The Mystery of God and the Lessons of the Desert
Readings: • Ex. 3:1-8a, 13-15 • Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 • 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12 • Luke 13:1-9 When asked why they climb, professional mountaineers often give varied but interconnected reasons. They […]
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The Paschal Journey of Lent
“God spoke further to Moses: ‘Go and gather the elders of the Israelites, and tell them, The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and […]
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The Road of Gathering, Exodus, and Salvation
Readings: • Jer 31:7-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 5:1-6 • Mk 10:46-52 “In the beginning,” states Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, “God made human nature one […]
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Recovering the fourfold sense of Scripture in John 6
The story recounted in John 6 is both miraculous and sacrificial, two things modernity rejects but to which the Church holds fast. […]
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The First Sunday of Lent: Deluges and Deserts, Sin and Salvation
On the Readings for Sunday, February 18, 2018, the First Sunday of Lent […]
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Domesticating the divinity
In this twenty-first century, we are no less tempted to domesticate God, and thus to sink into a shallow religious indifference or insouciance, than our […]