Side by side
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Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 16, 2025 Before the passage from today’s Gospel, we find Jesus choosing his twelve closest partners. Many more had begun following him, compelled by his miraculous... Read More

Send me!
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Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 9, 2025 Christian mystics have a term for when human thought and words are insufficient to describe God and God’s love for us: apophasis, Greek for... Read More

Gathered and blessed
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Feast of the Presentation of the Lord – Feb 2, 2025 This year, several feasts and solemnities will interject a specific focus of the paschal mystery into the Sundays of Ordinary Time. Today... Read More

Made for the occasion
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Third Sunday of Ordinary Time – Jan 26, 2025 “Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that had been made for the occasion” (Neh 8:4). When Ezra read to the people from... Read More

Break forth in our midst
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Second Sunday of Ordinary Time – Jan 19, 2025 What would have happened at the banquet if Mary had not paid attention to the kitchen staff and spoken up when she saw their... Read More

The closeness of God
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Fourth Sunday of Advent – Dec 22, 2024 “Do not forget that closeness, proximity, was God’s most authentic language,” said Pope Francis. “That style of God, of closeness, went farther, farther and farther... Read More

Make room for Christ’s joy
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Third Sunday of Advent – Dec 15, 2024 Today we get the great opening line from the second reading: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I say it again: rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). Why is... Read More

Co-laboring with the Creator
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Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Dec 9, 2024 The annual singing of the Easter Exsultet proclaims, “O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death... Read More