This weeks readings tend to speak of past prophets and Widows in a town called Zarephath. A man named Naaman being healed. We see Jesus speaking about prophets not being accepted in their native place and next thing you know he is being jeered and booed and is roughly shoved out of town. What exactly is […]
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The eagle is the American Symbol. We had hunted it almost to extinction, but then we gave it sanctuary. We gave it support and all of the things it needed to survive. And it succeeded. A little help and a little education were given to everyone. Education goes a long way to helping others… 1
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As we think back John the Baptist seems to be what advent is. He is there telling us to straighten our ways. John calls to us to live the life that is holy and joyous. He can be intimidating as he showed last week with the Pharisee and Sadducees. So the range surmised seems like a
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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.
The Return of John… Big John Read More »
For three years we have had a cloud over us. Our own Mental Health being challenged. We are not meant to always be alone, everyone 6 feet apart. This separation as well as the constant drone of medical news pushing us places we never dreamt about. That was then. Now we need a chance to
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time10-25-2020 Today we have to go back into the annals of time. A wonderful time when God spoke to Moses and gave us His teachings on his desire for mankind. The people had escaped Egypt and were to be on their own. Like each of us as we have left our
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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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What are the stages in which The Gospel’s are written? They didn’t just pop in from the air. Let’s see the stages of development all with the handwriting of the Holy Spirit
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Below is all 4 of the Servant “songs” together from Isaiah. It is quite easier to read the entire “song” inits 4 parts tgether. Below each song I have also placed the notes for that particular section. Hopefully looking at all of it together will make a bit more sense. THe parts around these expound
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It is amazing to think that we are almost completed with the first 4 weeks of Lent. I hope it has been going well for you. Hopefully you have been able to stick with the commitment you made to expand your spiritual life over these few weeks. If not it certainly is not to late.
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