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“Why did Jesus insist on being baptized?”

January 11, 2025 Carl E. Olson 1

Readings: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or Or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7 • Lk 3:15-16, 21-22 If […]

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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

April 1, 2023 Carl E. Olson 12

Readings:  • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches […]

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Can faith move mountains today?

March 8, 2023 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 6

It’s one of the most curious lines that Jesus utters. In response to the disciples’ inquiry as to why they could not cast an evil spirit from a boy, Jesus responds, “For truly, I say […]

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Wise Men from the East and the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

January 6, 2023 Sandra Miesel 16

We Three Kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar. . . . Who were these gift-bearing kings, these Wise Men of the East? What has their mission meant to Christians across the ages? […]

Essay

Singing through Advent, Part Two: The Magnificat

December 4, 2020 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 5

Some preliminary considerations The context for Our Lady’s canticle of praise, overall, is the Gospel according to St. Luke and, more specifically, within his Infancy Narrative. Only Matthew and Luke offer a “pre-history” to the […]

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New history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is often superb, sometimes lacking

November 12, 2020 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 4

John Anthony McGuckin is without doubt one of the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Christianity, patristics, and Church history. Having taught at Columbia and Union Seminary in New York City, he returned to his native […]

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