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Cycle A Thirty First Sunday Ordinary Time
CYCLE A 31ST ORDINARY (2011)
Malachi 1: 14; 2: 2, 8-10, 1 Thessa 1: 7-9, 13, Matt 23: 1-12
1. God has always tried to raise up good leaders for His people to help them live in TRUTH. And we all know that Jesus was sent as the ultimate TEACHER and LEADER of TRUTH. And we also know Jesus himself,...
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CYCLE B 34TH SUNDAY FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
Dn. 7:13-14, Rev. 1: 5-8, Jn 18:33-37)
Jesus in Scripture and the teachings of the church has some major titles: MESSIAH, PROPHET, PRIEST and KING. He receives these through God, His Father and through His accomplishments while on earth. Today on the last Sunday of the Church year, we celebrate the...
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Cycle C: Body and Blood of Christ
CYCLE C: BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST
Gospel Luke 9: 10-17, Gen. 14: 18-20 & Cor. 11: 23-26
We celebrate our parish feast day today: The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. That in too many Catholic people the connection in FAITH to the THEOLOGY of the church and SCRIPTURES, that Jesus is present...
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CYCLE C 3RD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Scripture: (Zeph 3: 14-18 and Luke 3: 10-18)
As we raised our children, my wife used ‘the Look’ to make them be Good. I used a fiery tirade to make them aware of a fault or transgression, but it ended with a positive note. It went like this: YOU’RE ROTTEN, DISPICABLE, INCORRIGBLE, YOU’RE DOWN...
CYCLE A 31ST ORDINARY (2011)
Malachi 1: 14; 2: 2, 8-10, 1 Thessa 1: 7-9, 13, Matt 23: 1-12
1. God has always tried to raise up good leaders for His people to help them live in TRUTH. And we all know that Jesus was sent as the ultimate TEACHER and LEADER of TRUTH. And we also know Jesus himself, established the church, leaving especially the Apostles and theirs successors,...
CYCLE A 3RD ORDINARY (2011)
Isaiah 8:23, 1 Cor. 1: 10-14, 17, Matt. 4: 12-23
1. The sin of Adam and Eve was in a nut shell, a sin of disobedience. The etymology of ‘disobedience’ tells us they DID NOT LISTEN to God. That’s why in a number of scripture verses we have the words: “HEAR O Israel” or “This is my Son…LISTEN to Him”; to bring us back from that...
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PRE-NUPTIAL BLESSING
Groom: With great joy, [__] and I stand before you and ask for your blessing upon our forth coming marriage.
Bride: And we ask for your continued prayers as well, so that [__] and I will grow in love and knowledge of one another.
Father of the Bride: [__], your mother and I, are happy that you have found the...
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Wedding/ Gospel Cana
You remember the BIG wedding that took place this spring in England: Prince William and Kate Middleton? The Carters were there at the time and they saw the 1ST KISS. Maybe you were among the Millions who viewed the pageantry and WEDDING VOWS on TV. I was most interested in the HOMILY. So just as Bishop Rowan began his homily at the Royal Wedding, with...
TRINITY SUNDAY CYCLE A 2011
Today, the Church liturgically celebrates the CLIMATIC mystery of Revelation known as the TRINITY. In this Mystery we believe that in One God, there are 3 persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who each possess in themselves a separate task to perform, but at the same time each share the same MIND and WILL to accomplish ALL in the end. ...
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CYCLE C: BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST
Gospel Luke 9: 10-17, Gen. 14: 18-20 & Cor. 11: 23-26
We celebrate our parish feast day today: The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. That in too many Catholic people the connection in FAITH to the THEOLOGY of the church and SCRIPTURES, that Jesus is present (Body & Blood, Soul and Divinity) in the Blessed Sacrament or the...
Cycle c 29th Sunday
Poverty, Immigration, Abortion, Health Care, Social Security, Terrorism, Economic Security, Rights Protection …Yes we are at a point where we must act to ‘Form our Conscience’. Education on each is important, but to gird our efforts IN THIS EXERCISE we must PRAY. We can’t stick our heads in the sand, for the list goes on and on… Affordable...
CYCLE A 27TH ORDINARY 2011
Isaiah 5:1-7, Philippians 4:6-9, Matthew 21: 33-43
The Big Man in basketball owns the lane. And defensively one of the greatest, sweetest, most desired plays he can make, is to REJECT some ones shot as they drive the lane in an attempt to make a basket. At least in my own mind, I was one of those SHOT BLOCKING MACHINES.
It wasn’t until years...
CYCLE A 21ST ORDINARY
Like the Disciples I think there are questions that God’s asks us to answer from our hearts. Three top questions might be:
Does God Exist?
Who do you say Jesus is (or is Jesus God)?
And Did Jesus establish the Church?
As Catholics, every Sunday, we gather together and proclaim that we have the answers to those questions…we speak them in the...
`CYCLE A 15TH SUNDAY
Isaiah 55: 10-11, Romans 8:18-23 and Matt. 13: 1-9
How’s your Flower or Vegetable Garden Growing? This year, I purposely bought seed and plants that were considered to be of a higher quality. In the last few years when I planted RADISHES for instance, I use seeds that I bought for like 10 packets for a dollar. And my radish yield was DISMAL. This...
CYCLE A 7TH ORDINARY
Lev. 19, 1-2, 17-18 1 Cor. 3 16-23 and Mt. 5: 38-48
Q: Do you want to be HOLY? Do you want to be PERFECT?
We say: WHY should I, WHAT does that mean and is it EASY to do?
While in the Catechism of the church, it says: “All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity”…that...
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CYCLE A 5TH SUNDAY LENT 2011
PICTURE your self at the cemetery, stationed near the grave site and casket of one someone who died. Remember the range of emotions that you went through. If it was someone you loved deeply, you were probably heart-sick. If for someone you really didn’t know, …well, you probably were not as emotionally attach. But by your presence your...
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Cycle A 4th Sunday Easter 2011
It is neat that one of the most cherished bible ANALOGIES of how man is to approach God and life and how God wants to relate to man, comes to us from the often used words of SHEEP and SHEPHERD.
Have you any experience with sheep? I have; 1 Lamb but 1 goat as well. Sheep are basic to middle East cultures. The Hebrew people were nomadic...
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CYCLE A 2ND LENT (#2)
Gen. 12: 1-4, 2 Tim 1: 8-10, Matt. 17:1-9
We always want the Good things in life, but we want it to come to us the ‘EASY” way. Whether it’s Health, Career, something Material or even a Relationship, if it doesn’t come “EASY”, many times we are likely to seek another route that is less burdensome or back off and quit.
Here we are, entering...
Amos 8: 4-7, 1 Timothy 2: 1-8, Luke 16: 1-13
1. The key line in our Gospel is…”you cannot serve both God and Mammon”. The problem is though, what is ‘MAMMON?” Sounds like a Monster Movie. “The RETURN of the MAMMON”.
2. ‘Mammon’ is a Aramaic word used in some bible translations meaning PROPERTY and WEALTH. Jesus, uses it in a NEGATIVE connotation, to condemn...
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