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

CHRIST THE KING

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The Thirty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Lk 23: 35-43 Dear Friends, On this feast of Christ the King, we celebrate a “kingdom of truth and ...

CALL TO HOLINESS-4

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Evangelization and Contemplation: Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus Over the past several years, I have called upon Teresa of Avila and Pope Francis...

THIRTY THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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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...

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Dear Parishioners, Today’s challenge for Jesus is with the Sadducees. They were a small but powerful and elitist group in the Jewish hierarc...

Thirty First Sunday of Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Lk 19:1-10 Dear Parishioners, Luke gives us a truly rich character in the wealthy tax collector, Zacchaeus. In today’s story, Luke taps into...

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Dear Parishioners, As I ponder the deep riches of today’s parable, I am inclined to reflect on my early Catholic formation. I grew up in St....

THE PARABLE OF THE JUDGE

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TWENTY NINTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Lk 18:1-8 Dear Friends, We, as a faith community, have journeyed with Luke on our way to Jerusalem for ...

TWENTY EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Luke 17:11-19 Dear Friends, Most Gospel stories are deeper and more challenging than they seem on the surface. Today’s story of the ten lepe...

TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Lk 17:5-10 Dear Friends, For us, the treatment of the servant in today’s gospel passage can be both distracting and upsetting. We need to mo...

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...