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  • Adapt The Delivery, Not The Message Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 2, 2013
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    The stark message of the Gospel must be delivered in ways that will be heard by modern humans.

    Monday of 3rd Week in Lent Gaudium et Spes Adapting the Delivery, Not the Message Those commentators who are not very familiar with the documents of Vatican II, but who count themselves experts on the “spirit” of Vatican II frequently see the Council as creating a break with the ...read more

  • Martyr-Witnesses To The Truth About Human Sexuality Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 1, 2013
     | 2,395 views

    It is not an act of love to tell those who are committing grave sin that their actions are OK. We must respect human dignity like the Ugandan martyrs.

    Monday of 9th Week in Course 2013 Gaudium et Spes The setting of the Book of Tobit, one of the inspired books of Scripture that came to us only in Greek, is of an exiled family in a land with an oppressive government, one that enforced laws prohibiting certain practices of the Jewish faith. The ...read more

  • Struggle Of Love With The Powers Of Darkness Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 28, 2012
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     | 2,863 views

    In the world we struggle with darkness, but we have the power of God's love, expressed in the Incarnate Word, on our side, and the victory is already won.

    Monday in the Octave of Christmas 2012 Gaudium et Spes “The Word became flesh, and pitched his tent among us.” This literal translation of the words of John’s hymn to the Logos, the Word of God, sums up the Good News we celebrated this year as we celebrate it in every year. As ...read more

  • Timothy's Mission

    Contributed by Robert Tomas on Jun 14, 2002
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     | 4,951 views

    Carrying the torch of the Gospel.

    JUNE 8, 2002 DISCIPLES’ ASSEMBLY TEACHING ON MISSION BASED ON 2 TIMOTHY 4:1-8 RSV [1] I CHARGE you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: [2] preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, ...read more

  • Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 16, 2013
     | 4,510 views

    The council fathers get specific about how we can help the poor.

    Monday of 1st Week in Lent 2013 Gaudium et Spes You Shall Love Your Neighbor One of the great heresies of modern time is a subtle one based on the notion of sola fide or “faith alone.” That was Martin Luther’s great mistake, of course. The only place in the NT where we read ...read more

  • Joy And Hope: A Personal Encounter With Christ In The Church Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 22, 2012
     | 2,843 views

    The Constitution on the Church in the Modern World gives us a kind of charter for the substance of the New Evangelization.

    Monday of 34th Week in Course 2012 Documents of Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes The redeemed pictured in John’s Revelation stand in the Father’s house on Mount Zion, that is the heavenly mountain, and they are with the Lamb, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. What are they doing for all ...read more

  • The Church's Healing Mission Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 8, 2012
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     | 4,176 views

    Jesus healed the whole person; so the Church has the mission to bring the world to His healing touch through the sacraments.

    December 10, 2012 Monday of 2nd Week in Advent Gaudium et Spes Let’s be very clear about one thing in today’s lesson from Isaiah–the Judean desert is nothing to joke about. Hot, desolate and arid, it devours lost travelers just as easily as its scarce rainfall. The people ...read more

  • Piety: The Family Virtue Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 15, 2012
     | 3,221 views

    The Christian has special duties to family. This is an important way to image Christ in our lives.

    Monday of 3rd Week in Advent Gaudium et Spes The outpouring of grief around the world over the murder of twenty-six innocent people, twenty of them children, in Connecticut has generated a number of Internet videos featuring one or the other version of the Pie Jesu, a text of the Requiem Mass. ...read more

  • Jerusalem Lifted Up Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 1, 2012
     | 3,740 views

    The Council envisioned a humanity integrated, not split apart, and entirely in the image of Christ

    Monday of First Week in Advent 2012 Gaudium et Spes When Roman general Titus stood on Mount Scopus in March of the year 70 AD, and looked toward the rebel city of Jerusalem, he learned by experience what many before him had known. Like Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus and Herod, he saw ...read more

  • Judging Actions, Not Interior Dispositions Of Others Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 7, 2009
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     | 2,650 views

    We may not judge the internal disposition of others, but we can judge the evil of what they want to do to society, especially against marriage.

    March 9, 2009 Sacramentum Caritatis How many times in recent years has this phrase of Jesus’s, “Judge not, lest ye be judged” been shoved into the faces of faithful Christians who are protesting the murder of the innocent, the perversion of the sacred union of husband and wife, or some other of ...read more

  • Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time- Cycle B; 5th Sunday Year B-- Simon’s Mother-In-Law Lay Sick With A Fever

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Feb 5, 2021
     | 1,539 views

    “Our fever is passion, our fever is lust, our fever is anger”

    Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. “Our fever is passion, our fever is lust, our fever is anger” (St. Ambrose, Expositio evangelii sec. Lucam, in loc.). St. Ambrose is talking about concupiscence, which is not sin but it’s what makes sin seem attractive (No. 2515). An illustration ...read more

  • Encouragement And Consolation, But Not Comfort Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 8, 2013
     | 3,841 views

    God gives us abundant consolations in our ministry, but does not grant us the privilege to be comfortable.

    The God of Consolation Monday of Tenth Week in Course 2013 St. Paul seems almost obsessed in today’s reading with the word paraklesis. In seven verses he uses some form of the word at least nine times. Paul is certainly trying to tell the Corinthians, and us, something ...read more

  • Year Of Faith And Evangelization Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 14, 2012
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     | 4,491 views

    Despite the many forces arrayed against the Church's mission, we must follow the Gospel command to bring the Word of God to everyone.

    Monday of 15th Week in Course July 16, 2012 Our Lady of Mt Carmel The Holy Father has announced the year of faith, to begin later this year with the next Synod of Bishops, and he has designated it as a time to dedicate ourselves to the New Evangelization. This may seem untimely. After all, the ...read more

  • In The Modern World, Not Subject To The Modern World Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 11, 2013
     | 3,108 views

    Bold preaching of the Truth of Christ may make us unpopular, but it is the only way to image Christ to the world.

    Monday of 7th Week of Easter Gaudium et Spes Paul’s first visit to Ephesus, which was destined to be the most influential early Christian community in the area we now call Turkey, did not fit the pattern of his other entries into towns. Usually Paul would go to the synagogue first, preach ...read more

  • A Praying Family Or A Dysfunctional One? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 18, 2013
     | 3,227 views

    Does your family work, learn and pray together, or as disconnected individuals?

    Monday of 7th Week in Course 20 May 20213 Gaudium et Spes The incident in today’s Gospel may be regarded as symbolic of what has come to be called a dysfunctional family. Here the son appears to be suffering from a diabolically caused autism or seizure disorder, and the father is seen as ...read more