by Bishop Mary Keldermans I usually focus on the gospel for my homilies but today I am going to focus on the first reading from the prophet Amos. Who was Amos? Amos was a shepherd and a farmer who lived near the city of Jerusalem. He would go to towns and villages to sell his […]
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman Our reading from Genesis today (Genesis 1:11,12, 20-22, 24-30) is an allegory. It is a symbolic story of How God gave us everything and called us to share in the creative process. Rather than to provide a scientific or historical timetable of the universe’s origins, this story aims to show
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By Reverend Katherine Elsner Once again this week the readings provide multiple ideas that we can use in our daily lives. The readings share with us some things we need to do and some things to avoid. In the first reading from the ancient book written by Sirach around 150 yrs BCE, we heard words
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman Our first reading today, (Sirach 4: 1-10) from the book of Sirach, was written around 200-175 BCE, in the time of Greek rule over the Middle East. The book of Sirach concerns itself with maintaining Jewish identity while living under Greek captivity. Sirach teaches that acting as a father to
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With our celebration of the First Week of Advent we enter into a new liturgical year. We can wish each other Happy New Year and be correct in doing so. Would it surprise you to know that the Church hasn’t always celebrated Advent with three purple candles and one rose colored candle? Or that She
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by Bishop Mary Keldermans What do you think of when you think of the season of Lent? Gloom? No meat? Giving up candy, soda or ice cream? Crowns of thorns? Stations of the Cross? Lent used to be that way for me until I started to teach our Catholic Faith to folks who wanted to
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Story of Jesus & Disciples on the road to Emmaus Last week we heard two stories of Jesus’ presence after the resurrection. One was that Jesus appeared to the disciples who were gathered and hiding in a locked room. In the second story Jesus appeared when Thomas was with the other gathered disciples. Today’s gospel
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The Beatitudes from Matthew 5 Today Barb read section from the gospel of Matthew, called Beatitudes, found in The Sermon on the Mount, probably one of the most well known texts of the New Testament. Matthew places them near the beginning of his account of Jesus’ public ministry, though we don’t know if they actually
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Luke 20:27-38 In today’s gospel we find a group of religious leaders back in the day known as Sadducees, who did not believe in resurrection of the dead. The Sadducees propose a trick question to Jesus, trying to discredit him. The trick question asked about a law from Moses’ time found in the Torah that
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A lawyer stood before Jesus to put him to the test and said,“Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?” Jesus answered,“What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” The expert on the Law replied:“You must love the Most High Godwith all your heart,with all your soul,with all your strengthand with
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