September 1, 2024, the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time: May our worship, understanding of law and sense of freedom never drift too far from the theological option for the poor, as it holds true within the Letter of James.
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The Difficult but Happy Choice to Stay
August 25, 2024, the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: After five Sundays in a row, the bread of life discourse from the Gospel of John reaches its anticlimactic close.
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Real Nourishment for the Skeptical and Starving Alike
August 18, 2024, the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Today’s passages invite the reader to contemplate real nourishment as opposed to figurative “food” for life’s journey.
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Before you complain about food, taste it first
August 11, 2024, the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: As a motif throughout Scripture, a sense of feeling wronged is always present, and God appears to be just around the corner from every single instance of complaint.
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Nourish Your Soul: Prayer, Interpretation and Christ
August 4, 2024, the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: It is noteworthy that Ignatius sees what today’s Gospel also points out: God is the one who labors; God nourishes; and the community of faith is invited to trust in that reality.
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Resisting the Perennial Mindset That ‘It’s Never Enough’
July 28, 2024, the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Last Sunday the Eucharistic Congress “fed” the vast crowds with Eucharistic devotion, prayer and a series of presentations that aimed to spark revival.
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The National Eucharistic Congress: A Matter for the Heart
July 21, 2024, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Today’s celebration for the National Eucharistic Congress would do well to maintain a close connection between the sentiment of revival of eucharistic devotion and the movement of Jesus’ own heart.
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Seeing and hearing through the lens of faith
July 14, 2024, the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: How does one carry out the intentions of the “One” called Jesus? How can anyone really know the divine will?
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Resisting the Kind of Familiarity That Breeds Contempt
July 7, 2024, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Does Jesus have the credentials to lead the people of Galilee? Each of the next three Sundays provides a different response and reflection.
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How the Smallest Gestures Can Reach the Horizons of Faith
June 30, 2024, the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Some episodes in Scripture are more than ordinarily relatable to our lived experience.