Showing posts with label CYCLE-C-2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CYCLE-C-2025. Show all posts

TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 16:19-31 Dear Friends, Luke’ Gospel has a consistent theme of reversal. Today’s parable continues this pattern. Right at the beginning o...

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 16:1-13 Dear Friends, Today’s parable of the dishonest servant is one of the most puzzling in all of the Gospels. In the end, however, th...

Twentieth-Fouth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Lk 15: 1-32 Dear Friends, The parables of the Two Sons and the Good Samaritan have been a major factor in the development of Christianity ...

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, The Gospel passage generally has many levels. Today it seems that Jesus is offering some practical advice. It to...

THE TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Luke 13:22-30 Dear Friends, Religion is always a many-sided issue. The weeds and the wheat are an ever-present concern. A lot of selfishness...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK 12:49-53 Dear Friends, Any true version of the gospel must balance two elements in tension with one another. This is the experience of ge...

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 12:13-21 Dear Friends, Jesus’ message in today’s gospel passage is straightforward. Nothing is more destructive in life than care about ...

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 ...

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 10:38-42 Dear Friends, True hospitality is one of many important themes in the story of Martha and Mary. Martha, as is so often our own e...

FIFTHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK 10:25-37 Dear Friends, The Jewish lawyer in today’s gospel passage was not interested in Jesus’ answer to the question, who is my neighbo...

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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LK: 10:1-11 Dear Friends, Jesus was very clear. The selected seventy-two were to proclaim the arrival of the kingdom of God. This message wa...

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 9:51-62 Dear Friends, We have just finished almost three months celebrating, pondering and praying the central truth of our faith, the Pa...

BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

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Lk 9: 11B-17 Dear Friends, For the early Christians, the event of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes was a very important part of S...

PENTECOST

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John 20:19-23 Dear Friends, Jesus had just experienced the most profound expression of evil ever in His Passion and Death. He had chosen to ...

THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION

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Lk 24:46-53 Dear Friends,It is hard to count the times over the years the number of individuals, particularly young people, who came to me w...

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

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John 14:23-29 The fifty days of the Easter Season offer us again the opportunity to penetrate the depths of our faith. We are invited to ent...

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

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John 13:31-35 Dear Friends, The Church gives us thirteen weeks to prepare for and then celebrate, ponder and pray over the reality of the Pa...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

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Jn 10:27-30 Dear Friends. The Easter triumph of love gives us hope no matter where life leads us in its twisting journey. The Easter Season ...

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER

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John 21:1-19 Dear Friends in Christ, Today’s selection is the end of John’s Gospel. It is commonly seen as a later addition to the original ...