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Christmas Day (25 December 2012)
So, in a moment of weakness last Friday, I gave my wife the remote to the 55” flat screen TV. Instantly, she turned to the TLC show starring Clinton and Stacey: What Not to Wear. (Now, why you’d waste...
View ArticleFirst Sunday after Christmas (30 December 2012)
A reflection on parenting from St. Luke 2:41-52 Here is the key verse for this reflection: When the [Passover] festival was ended, Jesus stayed behind [in Jerusalem] but his parents did not know it....
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Epiphany (6 January 2013)
Epiphany is traditionally celebrated on January 6 but is often moved to a Sunday; this year, January 6 happens to be a Sunday so for Catholics the feast is not shifted. Epiphany is the celebration of...
View ArticleBaptism of the Lord (13 January 2013)
A Reflection on Mark 1:4-11: “Where the Wild Things Grow” Some years ago two friends and I decided to drive through the California desert to a point hundreds of miles to the south. Our spirits were...
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2 Epiphany/Ordinary Time 2 (20 January 2013)
John 2:1-11: 1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the...
View Article3 Epiphany / OT 3 (27 January 2013)
Luke 4:14-21: And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the surrounding country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by...
View Article4 Epiphany / OT 4 (3 February 2013)
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” 1 Corinthians 13: 7-8a Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen....
View ArticleTransfiguration Sunday / OT 5 (10 February 2013)
A reflection on St. Matthew 17:1-9 The darkness of winter is waning and the light of spring is waxing. The season of the Church Year ending today is Epiphany, a funny word but it indicates a season at...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday (13 February 2013)
“For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:14) “I am his mother,” she said. “I am his mother. This is what a mother does.” Adelaida Rosado, mother of John Rosado, convicted sex...
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First Sunday of Lent (17 February 2013)
Sometimes it is only through temptation that one discovers one’s faith. Luke’s version of the temptation (4:1-13) is similar to Matthew’s (4:1-11), except for alternating the order of the final two...
View Article2 Lent (24 February 2013)
A reflection on St. Luke 13:31-35 This is the worst of all possible judgments — to be left as you are. Like the prophets before him, Jesus laments over Jerusalem and pronounces hard judgment. “Your...
View ArticleThird Sunday of Lent (3 March 2013)
A reflection on St. Luke 13:1-9 There had been a riot in the temple and Pilate’s soldiers had quickly settled it, swiftly killing several pilgrims from Galilee. Maybe Jesus’ usual critics want to make...
View Article4 Lent (10 March 2013)
A reflection on St. Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Jesus is once again keeping company with scandalous people — sinners and tax collectors — “coming near to listen to him.” Who are these people? The Pharisees and...
View Article5 Lent (17 March 2013)
A reflection on Philippians 3:4b-14 4 …If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of...
View ArticleSunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday (1 April 2012/24 March 2013)
“And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:8) “And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it.”...
View ArticleEaster Sunday (31 March 2013)
Luke 24:1-12: But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in...
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2 Easter (7 April 2013)
A reflection on St. John 20:19-31 It was on the evening of the first day of the week and ten of the remaining eleven disciples were sitting there in that upper room behind locked doors because they...
View Article3 Easter (14 April 2013)
A reflection on St. John 21:1-19 So Peter is bored. Put that in capital letters italicized: BORED. I can’t blame him. Peter isn’t much accustomed to doing nothing and that’s all he’s been doing,...
View Article4 Easter (21 April 2013)
A reflection on the Gospel According to St. John 10:22-30 This has proven to be a difficult winter, only now slowly waning. There’s nothing worse, I think, than winter in full force, unless it is a...
View Article5 Easter (28 April 2013)
A reflection on John 13:31-35 When you think about the first generation of Christians, what word comes to mind? Courage, perhaps? Or something like zeal, excitement, enthusiasm? They were, of course,...
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