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by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2007, 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C, Ordinary
CYCLE C 7TH Brothers and Sisters, Greetings from Blessed Sacrament Parish. 1. The work of the church can be described in 1 word. Evangelization. That work, under the leadership of Bishop Nickless, Fr. Guenther and the rest of the Catholic Parishes of Sioux City, is...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2014, 4th Sunday of Advent, Cycle A
2 Samuel 7:1-5, Romans 16:25-27, Luke 1: 26-38 Prologue: In 1989 Beth and I had 4 Children. Youngest at 6 Years old. It was time for her to go back to Teaching. 6 months into the school year she became pregnant with our 5th Child. To break the news to the other 4, we...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2011, 30th Sunday of Ordinary TIme, Cycle A
The Sioux City area has a tremendous history of immigrant people. 1. “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.” Exodus 22:21 2. When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2014, 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Ex 22:20-26, 1Thes 1:5-10, Mt. 22:34-40 1. I hope you’re not, tuning out as irrelevant, the Political-Religious Turmoil that is taking place (Pause), …in our Sunday READINGS over the last 4 weeks, punctuated in chapters 20-22 of Matthew’s Gospel. We...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2014, 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A
1. What’s Your OPINION? How do you like my Mutton Chops? 2. What is your OPINION of the Punishment that Mankind received because of Adam and Eve’s personal, unrepentant sin that led God to levee His supposedly JUST condemnation on us all. Was this FAIR?...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 19th Sunday of Oridnary Time, 2014, Cycle A
1. Last week we began the readings which bear witness to God’s PROVIDENTIAL CARE. In the Gospel of Feeding 5000, we see that CARE for our physical needs as He prefigures his CARE for our Spiritual in the Eucharist. Today we learn by 3 stories, God is always...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2014, Cycle A, Trinity Sunday
Ex. 34: 4-6, 8-9; 2-Cor. 13: 11-13; John 3: 16-18; 1. Have you ever asked and answered yourself the Question: Who Am I? If I was to describe ‘Who I am’, it would range from, I am Fun to be around, a Good Singer, to being a hard worker. In word and action...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 1, 2015 | 2014, 33rd Sunday Christ the King, Cycle A
1. There is a THEME that runs through the 1st reading, the psalm and our Gospel. They each take the ROLE of a SHEPHERD and the tasks of herding SHEEP and apply them to our earthly or Spiritual lives. The 1st reading and Gospel both employ the task of a shepherd...
by Fred Karpuk | Mar 16, 2014 | 2013, 32nd Sunday of Ordinary, Cycle C
CYCLE C 32ND ORDINARY 2013 2 Maccabees 7:1-2 9-14, 2Thesalonians 2:16- 3:5, Luke 20, 27-38 1. In a quote from the 1963 Vatican II Document Gaudium et Spes No. 43 (whose 50th year we are celebrating), it spoke to the problem of Catholics living the faith. It said, the...
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