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The Wedding Feast, the Lamb, and the Kingdom

October 14, 2023 Carl E. Olson 10

On the Readings for Sunday, October 15, 2017 […]

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Christ’s parables are not secret codes but calls to conversion

July 15, 2023 Carl E. Olson 2

Readings: • Isa 55:10-11 • Psa 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 • Rom 8:18-23 • Matt 13:1-23 The well-known parable of the seed and the sower is the first of seven parables in Matthew 13. These […]

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Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans

March 22, 2023 George Weigel 16

To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was certainly true on Monday of the Third Week of Lent, 2023 — a day […]

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The Lamb of God and the Salvation of the World

January 14, 2023 Carl E. Olson 17

Readings: • Is 49:3, 5-6 • Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 • 1 Cor 1:1-3 • Jn 1:29-34 Taken as a whole, this Sunday’s readings can, I think, be summarized in a single sentence: […]

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How narrow is the way of the Cross?

August 19, 2022 Carl E. Olson 1

Readings: • Is 66:18-21 • Ps 117:1, 2 • Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 • Lk 13:22-30 Over the past few weeks we have heard, in the readings from the Gospel according to St. Luke, about Jesus […]

Essay

“Jesus Christ is the answer to which every human life is the question”

June 25, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 3

“When the days for Jesus’ being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51). I had a homily on priestly vocations prepared for this Sunday, but Friday’s Dobbs v. Jackson […]

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“In my beginning is my end. … In my end is my beginning”

December 4, 2020 Carl E. Olson 8

On the Readings for December 10, 2017, the Second Sunday of Advent […]

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Doing some real Advent spiritual work

December 1, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 2

We will never be adequately prepared for the coming of the Savior unless and until we feel in our bones that there is something we need to be saved from. If we don’t require salvation, […]

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Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”

March 28, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]

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