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Month: August 2022

Vigilance in Obedience to Christ

Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, Jesus gives His followers instructions about vigilance in their obedience to Him.  The message:  expect the unexpected. Gospel (Read Lk 12:32-48) Our reading today follows Jesus’ earlier exhortation to His disciples about anxiety:  “Don’t be anxious about your life, what you shall eat … or what you shall put […]

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Stewardship and Catholic Farming

According to Genesis 1:29-30, God created the garden of Eden depicting the growth of plants and animals and forming humans as farmers to care for the soil. Then in John 15:1, Jesus tells people that His Father is a farmer, underscoring for life the importance and gravity of farming. After all, without God’s food raised […]

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Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

Reading I Dn 7:9-10, 13-14

As I watched:

    Thrones were set up
        and the Ancient One took his throne.
    His clothing was bright as snow,
        and the hair on his head as white as wool;
    his throne was flames of fire,…

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Pius XII:  The Pope Who Defied Hitler

At the end of the Second World War, Pope Pius XII was universally acclaimed for his courageous leadership. The Jewish…

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