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“Lord, help me”: The startling humility of the Canaanite woman
On the Readings for Sunday, August 20, 2017 […]
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Lazarus, the Rich Man, and the Sin of Pride
Readings: • Am 6:1a, 4-7 • Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Tm 6:11-16 • Lk 16:19-31 As we hear the various parables from the Gospel of Luke it is good to keep two things […]
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Humility, Wisdom, and Moral Realism
Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with […]
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Zeal for the Law and Casting the First Stone
Readings: • Is 43:16-21 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 3:8-14 • Jn 8:1-11 Imagine being caught in a most serious and embarrassing sin, then taken into a crowded public area and placed […]
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The Mystery of Creation and the Sacrament of Marriage
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
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The cart of human tradition and the horse of divine Law
On the Readings for Sunday, September 1, 2018 […]
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John 3:16 and the journey from darkness to light
On the Readings for March 11, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Lent […]
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Free will and the drama of sin
On the Readings for Sunday, October 1, 2017 […]