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Ugh! That might be our feeling on hearing in the Gospel how Jesus heals the deaf and dumb man by putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting and touching his tongue. This is Mark’s Gospel, the earliest Gospel, written just 30 or so years after Jesus’ death. So…
What makes a person good? The legal system judges people good or evil by whether they keep laws. But it is easy to see the limits of that approach. A stingy person may well be keeping all financial laws. An honest person may never tell a lie but also never…
Sometimes you hear this question: What is the hardest saying of Jesus? Is it the one about no divorce? Or about selling all you have and giving it to the poor? Or that we must die, like the grain of wheat, in order to live forever? Or that we must…
Only rarely does this Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary fall on a Sunday during Ordinary Time, when the liturgical focus is on the teaching and ministry of Jesus. One of the churches I was in charge of had an impressive statue of Mary. It was suspended from the sanctuary…
In last week’s passage from Exodus, Moses is complaining to God. Even though God had provided the people with manna and quail, they were bitterly complaining about the food they were given. Moses said: “Why … [did] you burden me with all this people? Was it I who conceived all…
The other night, at the last light of dusk, the motion-sensor light on the garage came on, illuminating the backyard. Curious, I looked out to see what triggered it and saw a tawny doe with her twin fawns. The spots on the twins were just beginning to fade but were…
My Italian father insisted that there always be bread on the dinner table, no matter what the meal was! Bread is the “staff of life” in so many cultures. I’ve noticed that inflation in underdeveloped countries is often measured by a rise in the price of bread, and emergency food…
Our current lectionary cycle is B, in which Mark’s Gospel is frequently used as the Sunday Gospel. But Mark’s is a short Gospel. So for five weeks in year B, we switch to the Gospel of John and hear the “bread of life” passages from John, Chapter 6. Remember, John’s…
On this 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (the counted weeks of the liturgical year), the first Hebrew Scripture reading and the Gospel both speak about shepherds. So I expect we might hear homilies about this theme. But the second reading from Ephesians is especially significant for our Precious Blood family.…
“He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick. …” The simple walking stick — not the fancy, manufactured poles you can buy in a sporting goods store but a wooden stick — is a beautiful symbol for the commission we all have to bring the…