Showing posts with label CYCLE-C-2022. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CYCLE-C-2022. Show all posts

Christ the King

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The Thirty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Lk 23: 35-43 Dear Friends,The Angel said to Mary, “You shall name him Jesus. He will be great and...

Thirty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time-C

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Lk 21:5-19 Dear Parishioners, As the Church Year draws to a rapid conclusion, the Gospel message is once again a story of the end. Last week...

TERESA AND PURGATORY

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Teresa of Avila’s classic, The Interior Castle, is about purification and transformation on the pilgrimage to God. It has an uncanny similar...

THIRTY SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 27:27-38  Dear Parishioners, In today’s Gospel story the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a simplistic and absurd story about seven brother...

THIRTY FIRST SUNDAY OF SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 19:1-10  Dear Parishioners, "Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was." (Lk...

30th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Luke 18, 9-14 Dear Parishioners, I grew up in St. Laurence parish on the South Side of Chicago. It was a very beautiful and enriching experi...

TWENTY NINTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK 18:1-8 Dear Friends, There are a couple of points we need to make right away. The parable of the judge and widow does not teach us that w...

TWENTY EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Luke 17:11-19 Dear Friends, The first words of today’s passage from Luke are “As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem”. (Lk 17:11) We h...

TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 17:5-10 Dear Friends, This short passage in today’s Gospel is part of a longer section. Here Jesus is continuing to teach the disciples w...

TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 16:19-31 Dear Friends, In his Gospel, Luke puts great emphasis on the theme of reversal. Right at the beginning we have in Mary’s great h...

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 16:1-13  Dear Friends, When we finally work through this most puzzling of all the parables in today’s Gospel, the message is clear and st...

TWENTIETH-FOUTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 15: 1-32 Dear Friends,All three parables have one dominant and common theme. They are totally excessive in their contradiction of common ...

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK 14:25-33 Dear Friends, These words of Jesus are very strong. In fact, they are the most extreme in expressing the demands of discipleship...

THE TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK 14:1, 7-14 Dear Friends, As always, today’s Gospel passage has many levels. On the surface, Jesus is offering some practical advice. It t...

THE TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Luke 13:22-30 Dear Friends, Religion is a very tricky business. A lot of selfishness takes place in the name of Jesus. Often, what seems to ...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 12:49-53 Dear Friends, Our Gospel today places us in the midst of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem. Luke’s ten chapters dedicated to this pass...

NINETEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Luke 12:32-48 Dear Friends, I get the impression that most people come to worship on Sunday to change God. They have real problems and conce...

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 12:13-21 Dear Friends, In today’s Gospel, Jesus responds to the request to intervene in the family dispute by telling a story. The messag...

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 11: 1-13 Dear Friends, Today, we have the Lukan version of the Our Father. This special prayer is the culmination and deepest expression ...

THE SECOND DWELLING PLACES

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Part One (In the second dwelling places it becomes clear that Teresa is not primarily interested in offering a method of prayer. Her goal is...