Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), Aug. 29, 2010
Barbara E. Reid
Barbara Reid, O.P., is the president of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Carroll Stuhlmueller, C.P. Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at the C.T.U.
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Obedient Faith
Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
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Bodily Spirituality
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (C), Aug. 15, 2010
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A Forgiving and Giving God
The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.
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Bigger Barns
The Gospel today shows us in parable form what the “greed that is idolatry” looks like.
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The Kindness of Strangers
Sometimes we need to be helped out of our rationalizations for not doing what our listening heart prompts us to do.
