by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A, Ordinary
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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A, Ordinary
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,...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 2011, Cycle A, Ordinary
`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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A, Ordinary
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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 5th Sunday of Lent, Cycle A, Lent
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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 4th Sunday of Easter, Cycle A, Easter
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;...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2011 | 2011, 2nd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A, Lent
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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2010 | 2010, 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C, Ordinary
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...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2010 | Cycle C, Ordinary
1. Todays’ Gospel provides us with a couple of characters most can identify with in one way or another. I think Beth and I could slip into the roles of Martha and Mary very easily. I’ll tell you what….next summer Beth is going to have a Job. This taking a 10 week...
by Fred Karpuk | Oct 14, 2010 | 5th Sunday of Lent, Cycle C, Lent
Is. 43: 16-21, Phil. 3: 8-14 and John8:1-11 1. I’ll bet we all have done a STUPID, HURTFUL or SINFUL thing or two in life. The Questions I want you to answer is: How did the consequences of those actions subsequently play out? Years ago, when I was in the sixth grade...
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