31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Deuteronomy 6:2-6 Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 (2) Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 12:28-34 November 4, 2018 God is love! God loves us. We see this in Jesus, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish …
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Jeremiah 31:7-9 Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 (3) Hebrews 5:1-6 Mark 10:46-52 October 28, 2018 The Bible is the story of God’s people. It is not just history. It does not just tell us what happened a couple of thousand of years ago. It does tell us what …
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Isaiah 53:10-11 Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 (22) Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 October 21, 2018 When I talked last week about attachments and things we might need to let go of, I mentioned awards. There is nothing wrong with awards themselves but if we do something just to …
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Homily for October 2018 Holy Hour Ezekiel 34:1-6, 11-12a Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 1 John 1:5-2:2 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 In the days of Ezekiel many shepherds were more concerned about their own wants than taking care of the flock that God had entrusted to them. They were doing nothing to strengthen the weak or …
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Wisdom 7:7-11 Psalm 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 (14) Hebrews 4:12-13 Mark 10:17-30 October 14, 2018 A man came to Jesus and “knelt down before him” to ask him a question. His act of kneeling indicates that he recognized the greatness of Jesus in the same way we kneel during …
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We live in a world where there is sin and division. We see it in the moral (or lack thereof) behavior of people. We see it in violent acts and terrorism. We see in the political divisions within government that no longer seem to be “just different viewpoints” but taking sides for political reasons. We …
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 (5) Hebrews 2:9-11 Mark 10:2-16 October 7, 2018 “It is not good for the man to be alone.” These are God’s own words as He brought order to the world in creation. God did not create the man to dominate other …
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I just finished uploading my latest presentation. This one is on forgiveness. Here’s the description: We know we need forgiveness, yet it can be hard to think that God will forgive us. We think we are not worthy. We might think that because we keep committing the same sins over and over that God will …
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Numbers 11:25-29 Psalm 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 (9a) James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 September 30, 2018 Jesus speaks to his disciples about what causes them to sin. His direction to cut our hand or foot off or to cut our eye out if they cause us to …
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The gospel for today’s (9-24-18, Monday of 25th Week in Ordinary Time) is a fairly short gospel but I would like to break it into three parts. Part One “Jesus said to the crowd: “No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so …
