“Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” These words of Jesus have always challenged me since I feel I have been “entrusted with much” — good education, blessed vocation, excellent health, etc. But I remember a Peanuts strip where Lucy was complaining… Read More »
OCTOBER232018
St. Paul wrestled with the great crisis in the early church — how to integrate Jews and non-Jews into “one body.” He believed and taught that such unity was possible when it is founded on Christ. Christ “is our peace, he made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity.” What seemed like… Read More »
OCTOBER222018
Jesus told a parable about the man who after a successful harvest was deciding where to store his crop. ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones.’ In the story, the man didn’t consider his mortality — that we should look at things from the perspective of… Read More »
OCTOBER212018
LeRoy had huge blisters on each ear. When asked about it he explained. “My wife left the hot iron right next to the phone. When it rang I instinctively grabbed a handle and picked up the iron instead of the phone. Ouch! The worst part, it was a wrong number.” “Okay, that explains the blister… Read More »
OCTOBER202018
St. Paul opens his letter to the Church at Ephesus with a word of thanksgiving. “Hearing of your faith in the Lord Jesus and of your love for all the holy ones, I do not cease giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.” This was his normal practice even when he spends the… Read More »
OCTOBER192018
“In Christ you … were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance.” St. Paul tells us that the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives is the down payment from God giving a foretaste of heaven. In another letter (to the Galatians) St. Paul tells us what… Read More »
OCTOBER182018
Let us give thanks today for St. Luke. Without the Third Gospel we would not know the story of the Prodigal Son or the Good Samaritan. He left us the beautiful prayers the Benedictus and the Magnificat which the Church prays every day. He emphasized Jesus’ love for the poor. He pointed out the role… Read More »
October 21 2018 Bulletin
October 21 2018 wk 48 Bulletin
OCTOBER172018
In an age of “I’ll do my thing and you do yours” it is held to be in bad taste to chide the behavior of others. But Jesus and St. Paul did not hesitate to point out bad behavior. “Woe to you.” In the letter to the Galatians the Apostle lists some “works of the… Read More »
OCTOBER162018
St. Paul fought strenuously against those who insisted that in order to become a follower of Jesus, one need to be circumcised. This was a battle royal in the first century that is reflected in many of the New Testament texts. However, there aren’t any fights over circumcision nowadays. Those battles which loomed so large… Read More »
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