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    Thirty-First Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A- Hypocrites

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Oct 8, 2023
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    We ask for the daily grace to walk the talk.

    Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?” A rabbi and a priest were talking about the perks of each job. The priest mentioned that he gets a rectory to live in that comes with a housekeeper and a cook, all paid for by the church. The rabbi responded by asking if ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Thirtieth Sunday In Ordinary Time

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Oct 4, 2023
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    Love of God and neighbor protects us from stress

    Several years ago, a radio station ran a contest. "Just for fun," they said, "when you wake up to the sound of 106 FM, call and tell us the first words you spoke when you rolled out of bed. If you're the third caller, you'll win $106." The first morning, a buoyant disc ...read more

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    Twenty-Ninth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A--Church And State

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Sep 3, 2023
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    Otherwise, politics is about "bread and circuses."

    Have you ever noticed that when you combine the two words, “THE” and “IRS,” it spells “THEIRS”? At one and the same time Jesus affirmed the rights of the state and freedom of conscience to worship and serve God. By allowing Caesar to collect taxes, Jesus opposes the Pharisees by acknowledging ...read more

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    Twenty-Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A: Marriage Supper Of The Lamb

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Sep 2, 2023
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    Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfilment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness

    At the wedding rehearsal, the bride told the priest that she was nervous that she would not remember what to do during the wedding. The celebrant told her that she only needed to remember 3 things. First the aisle, because that is what you'll be walking down. Secondly, the altar because ...read more

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    Twenty-Seventh Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A- Wicked Tenants

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Aug 27, 2023
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    In one word, what do you live for?

    In 1962, when President John F. Kennedy was visiting the NASA Space center, he noticed a janitor sweeping the hallway and asked him, “What do you do around here?” To his surprise, the janitor replied, “Well, Mr. President, I’m helping to put a man on the moon.” This janitor found meaning in seeing ...read more

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    Twenty-Sixth Sunday In Ordinary Time- Yes Means No And No Means Yes.

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Aug 21, 2023
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    Statistically, in St. Matthew’s Gospel, words and expressions which emphasize obedience, the doing of God’s will, are among his favorite.

    Nikos Kazantzakis was a tortured Greek writer who was constantly haunted by God. He once wrote of an experience he had when he climbed Mount Athos to visit a monk at a monastery. “Father Makarios,” he said to the old monk, “I remember that in your younger days you wrestled with the devil. Do you ...read more

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    Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A.- Forgiveness In 621 Words

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Aug 8, 2023
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    The New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati has “70 x 7” painted over the main doorway.

    We hear in our Gospel, we have to forgive, “not seven times but seventy-seven times.” One guy responded, “Great, not only do I have to forgive my brother, now I have to do math.” Jesus adds: Forgive from your heart. Without forgiveness, the weight of the debt over time means the residual ...read more

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    Twenty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A: Fraternal Correction In 632 Words

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Aug 8, 2023
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    God’s watchful eye.

    On the backside of a one-dollar bill, we are reminded that we are being watched; that eye on top of a pyramid is officially called “the eye of providence: God’s watchful eye.” Although the masons, still today a forbidden group for Catholics to join, adopted the image, the eye was actually added by ...read more

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    Twenty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time- Get Behind Me, Satan

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 29, 2023
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    You tell the Lord you don’t want him to die, and he responds by calling you Satan.

    The book, Tigers in the Dark, tells about a time when all the electricity went out at a Barnum and Bailey Circus. There was total darkness at the circus. They had just started the act with the tiger trainer locked in a cage with several fierce Bengal tigers. The tigers could see the man - the man ...read more

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    Nineteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time- How To Walk On Water.

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 5, 2023
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    To walk on water means to perform a task where the challenge greatly exceeds one’s level of skills without becoming anxious and stressed.

    How to walk on water. I saw a cartoon that showed a lady walking on some cases of bottled water and the caption read, “Walking on water”! Another person said, “I walk on water every time it rains. Thin water, but water just the same. [And] just so you know, I drive on water too.” To walk on ...read more

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    Twentieth Sunday In Ordinary Time- Clever Dogs

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 4, 2023
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    The woman understood the testing or riddle or allegorical challenge of Jesus.

    Jesus puts Jews and gentiles under the same roof, and the first to get there is the Canaanite woman from our Gospel today. In fact, you could say that the day the gospel went to the dogs was the day it came to us. In Catholic Christianity, the word dog is used positively in mottos, by saints, ...read more

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    Feast Of The Transfiguration Of The Lord- Ascending The Spiritual Mountain

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 1, 2023
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    It happens, geographically, on a mountain top because the higher you climb the more you see, so it’s revelatory of a person’s advancement in the spiritual life.

    Even the highest moments of mystical union are meant to empower one to serve our neighbor. It’s about service. E.g. there is the story of a lady who went to a prayer group where everyone was sitting in silence. "When does the service begin?" she asked a man sitting near her. His answer: ...read more

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    Seventeenth Sunday In Ordinary Time: Buried Treasure And Pearls

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 28, 2023
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    The main character spends the rest of the movie frantically trying to figure out what Curly meant. What IS that “just one thing?

    In 1905, the world’s largest diamond, a 3,106-Carat Diamond called the Cullinan diamond, weighing over a pound and worth $2 Billion dollars, was found at the Thomas Cullinan Premier Diamond Mining Company in South Africa. Diamonds are forever, but, if you don’t own one, don’t feel bad; consider ...read more

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    Sixteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time- Weeds And Wheat

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 27, 2023
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    Sanctity is less about the evil we resist than the good we embrace.

    There was an interesting report in the news a while back. It was about an event designed for college kids. The purpose was to get them to take weeds seriously. One pundit called it “the World Series of weeds.” Agriculture students from universities in the U.S. and Canada competed in being able to ...read more

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    Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A- The Sower

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 18, 2023
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    Even in the fruit-bearing hearers of the word there are gradations.

    I saw a neighbor working in his front yard wearing a funny T-Shirt that said, “Sorry I Can't My Plants Need Me.” In today’s parable from Matthew, chapter 13, the seed is the Word of God (verse 20), and the ground is our hearts (verse 19). It all depends on what kind of soil a person is because ...read more

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