The Return of John… Big John
The prophet John the Baptist can be a scary person, but only becauze he loves everyone so much. It is only because of his love that he challenges us to be just like Christ.
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Biblical Reflection
Reflections on Scripture
26th Sunday In Ordinary Time
How many times in my life did I say no to my father…? Probably once…. And the joy of learning was applied to my backside. And of course I said yes after that. But we look at the individual readings today they can each lead to confusion. In Jerusalem there were two types of people
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Progress through Life should not be Vanity
I am always happy to speak about the Old Testament… After all it is not a part of the Scriptures that Christians in general know very well. Sure, we all probably have Genesis and Exodus down pretty well… but Ecclesiastes?? Let’s talk about the book Except for a pretty famous song by the Byrds back
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Do the workers love the others?
One of the best known of the parables many try to tie down God. I believe in you , but I need some sort of sign. Numerous times Jesus says there will not be a sign, yet we continually ask for it. Jesus continually tells us that God/He is in charge. Human beings really don’t
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Do I want to be a Wicked Servant? I already am!
IN today’s Gospel a servant would not show mercy to another human being, even though he received mercy from his Master. The Master finds out about it and takes everything away from the servant. How do we feel about this? Glee? Happiness? The evil one got what is coming to him? How do we account
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July 4th and the yoke of love
Happy 4th of July Weekend. We are celebrating our Independence Day .. but just how independent are we? Jesus claims his yoke to be easy this weekend, but easy compare to what? And for whom? Come to me all you who labor and are burdened… So who is it, that Jesus is talking to? Is
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Whats Love got to do with it?
Today’s Gospel reading is from Matthew 5. Which means of course we have reached the Beatitudes. Jesus speaks to the crowds about who we should love Jesus here is getting to the root of an issue. And one we seem to continue looking at today. And has raised it heads very severely. He wants each
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Paul Bombed in the Aerogapus
Wednesday 6th Week of Easter Reading: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 Good day today is Wednesday of the 6th week of Easter. We must be getting close to the Ascension and Pentecost. The reading I want to focus on today is form the 17th Chapter of Acts of the Apostles. At this point in Acts the letter
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Transmission of Divine Revelation
Hello to you all today! Well as I am recording this We are celebrating Good Friday. I suppose that the celebration of Good Friday goes back to the year after Jesus was Crucified. It does not appear that Mary, John or any of the others there were celebrating that first Good Friday. God’s plan had
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