20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Proverbs 9:1-6 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 August 16, 2015 Our first reading comes from the Book of Proverbs where “wisdom” is personified as “Lady Wisdom.” Today we hear Lady Wisdom inviting in the simple and those who lack understanding to come and eat at her table to forsake …
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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30:5-2 John 6:41-51 August 9, 2015 Elijah is tired and worn out. How many of us have felt the same way at times? In Elijah’s case he is serving as a prophet of the Lord in a time when people have turned away from …
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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15 Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 John 6:24-35 August 2, 2015 The Israelites were grumbling. They were concerned that they could find nothing to eat in the desert. A legitimate concern, but how soon they forgot how they came to the desert. God had set them free from …
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephesians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15 July 26, 2015 The events of our first reading happen in a time of drought so food was scarce and people were hungry. The man presents twenty barley loaves to Elisha the prophet. Elisha directs him to give it to the …
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16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Jeremiah 23:1-6 Ephesians 2:13-18 Mark 6:30-34 July 19, 2015 Last week we heard Jesus send out the Twelve. This week they report back and He tells them to take some time to rest. It’s important to realize they didn’t go out on their own never to return. They …
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15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Amos 7:12-15 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:7-13 July 12, 2015 They say if you want to avoid controversy don’t talk about religion or politics. We need to talk about our faith but never to ruffle feathers but to speak the truth. Amos has been speaking about the faith as …
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14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Mark 6:1-6 July 5, 2015 This weekend is, of course, our national holiday remembering the signing of The Declaration of Independence and how we came to be a free nation. So this weekend we celebrate freedom. In 1776, it was freedom from an …
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13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Mark 5:21-43 June 28, 2015 Jesus heals both a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years and a twelve year old girl who “died.” Only the girl died a physical death but the woman’s life was severely altered by …
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12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Job 38:1, 8-10 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-31 June 21, 2015 Job had been a patient person. By worldly standards he had been a great man with wealth and family but that had been taken from him by the evil one. His friends thought he must have sinned …
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11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 June 14, 2015 Ezekiel serves as a prophet of God some six hundred years before the birth of Jesus. It is a time when the people have turned away from God. For this God has allowed their enemies from Babylon to …
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