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Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel reflections: United in mind and purpose

Living with Christ Jan 24, 2020 0

I urge you, brothers and sisters ... that all of you agree in what you say ... that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose. (1 Corinthians 1:10) For the approximately past 15 years I have periodically attended one week of…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel Reflections: A prayer for salvation

Living with Christ Jan 17, 2020 0

I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 49:6) When I hear the word “salvation,” my first thought is of a kind of personal benefit, something that I or another person can claim…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: A mystery still

Living with Christ Jan 3, 2020 0

The mystery … has now been revealed. (Ephesians 3:3, 5) Here’s the “mystery”: God was revealed to a particular people — the Jewish people — but all along, God intended to to be revealed eventually to everyone. For a long time this plan was…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Gospel reflection: A humble heart

Living with Christ Dec 30, 2019 0

Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. (Luke 2:19) May the Virgin make our hearts humble and submissive like her son’s heart. In her, the heart of Jesus was formed. Let us learn to be humble, accepting humiliations…

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Christmas Gospel reflection: Christmas … always

Living with Christ Dec 23, 2019 0

This will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. (Luke 2:12) I confess I sometimes sympathize with the Grinch. I look for ways to stop Christmas from coming. The closer it gets, the…

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Sunday Gospel Reflections: Imperfect circumstances

Living with Christ Dec 19, 2019 0

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. (Matthew 1:18) This introduction leaves us waiting in expectation of a story that will leave us mesmerized. We anticipate some logical explanation about the Incarnation. But this does not…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Prayerful pauses

Living with Christ Dec 13, 2019 0

Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. (James 5:7) I gave a talk in a parish on…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Gospel reflection: It must have been this way

Living with Christ Dec 9, 2019 0

Many of the Marian doctrines and feasts — so troublesome to those who hold that Scripture is the sole source of what can be known about Jesus and Mary — have roots in the earliest centuries of the Christian faith. These Christians seem to…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel reflections: The face in the mirror

Living with Christ Dec 6, 2019 0

John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (Matthew 3:1-2) There are times my children’s faults weigh heavily on me. Why does she procrastinate so? Why don’t they pick…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Making vision of peace a reality

Living with Christ Nov 19, 2019 0

They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks (Isaiah 2:4). The prophet Isaiah wrote this verse in the eighth century B.C., a critical time in the Israelites’ history when they were being invaded by…

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