By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman Welcome to the solemnity of Corpus Christ, or for those of us who don’t speak Latin, the Body of Christ. Words matter, don’t they? And our Catholic traditions use a lot of words. Some might say too many! Some of those words come from the earliest writings of our history, […]
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By Reverend Katherine Elsner I can’t imagine how alone, fearful and insecure the disciples of Jesus must have felt when they finally figured out that they had been called by Jesus to go forward with his teachings. Looking back, they remembered that Peter denied Jesus, that none of them had been at the foot of
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By Michael Armstrong Before I get started, you’ll need to know a little bit about me. I’ve been a diabetic for 62 years, and invariably I have candy around me. You’ll see me, even at church, say, “Oh, my blood sugar is getting down a little bit,” and I’ll grab some candy. I’ll tell you
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by Bishop Mary Keldermans At first glance, the readings we have just heard don’t look like they fit together, much less for a Holy Covenant ritual that we will celebrate in a moment. The first reading is from the Acts of the Apostles and describes how the early Christians were building the Church. The Psalm
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman In today’s first reading, we hear Peter proclaiming the Good News to the people in Jerusalem right after they received the Holy Spirit on the Jewish feast of Pentecost. That’s right, the Jewish feast of Pentecost. It was called Shavuot (shuh·voo·awt), and it was celebrated seven weeks or fifty days
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman Today’s readings and our journal assignment, all have something to do with one of the five senses, sight. In the first reading, from Samuel, we are told in no uncertain terms that God sees differently than we see. While some of us would choose the eldest, or the tallest, or
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman From the beginning of today’s first reading, we are told to seek various ways of being. This prophet, Zephaniah, from Hebrew Scripture, is telling us to be God-seeking people, righteous people, humble people, lowly people, upright people, honest people, people who seek refuge. For these are some of the goals
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By Reverend Katherine Elsner As I mentioned at the beginning of mass today, these weeks in the Catholic church are known as Ordinary Time. The word “ordinary” can convey a negative meaning, such as “she or he is just ordinary”, as if that person has nothing noteworthy about him or her. Another comment: “I’m just
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By Reverend Deacon Jerry Bauman And so it begins “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, the birth of Jesus as recorded in the Holy Gospels. As we’ve just heard, Matthew’s account starts with, “This is how the birth of Jesus the Christ came about.” But Luke’s Gospel begins “Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything
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By Mary Bretscher 12/13/25 A few weeks back, I was talking with Mary Keldermans about the sequence of events which led up to us choosing our Advent Angels. What seemed to be a series of unrelated, ordinary events was starting to look like maybe there was a plan to them all. Mary asked me if
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