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Action and urgency pervade our liturgy on this first Sunday of Advent. Grant your faithful, we pray almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ … (opening prayer); Come, let us climb the LORD’S mountain … (first reading); We will go up to the house of the…
Most Catholics have heard of the Franciscans, Dominicans and Benedictines. The Franciscans work for the poor and the Dominicans are preachers. Benedictines are known for their contributions to liturgy. Fewer Catholics have heard of “Precious Blood Spirituality” and even less know what it means. A year ago, I introduced our…
Today we end Year C of our lectionary, the year when we have heard the Gospel of Luke read on many Sundays. Today we hear part of Luke’s passion account. Jesus is on the cross, speaking with the criminals being crucified on either side of him. It is a suffering…
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is talking to his disciples about the times they are living in, and what might be coming. They ask him, “What sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?” Before today’s young adults were born, Pope Saint John XXIII called Vatican Council…
There is an anecdote about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He was the Jesuit paleontologist and mystic (1881-1955) whose writings are the foundation of Catholic process theology. Teilhard was a stretcher bearer in the trenches of World War I. The story goes that someone there with him asked if he was…
As we remember those who have gone before us and leaving us their example, I keep thinking that all of us are “on our way.” Just recently I attended a national conference which had as its thrust, “missionary discipleship.” For me these two themes fit together for several reasons. Since…
Today we hear the familiar story of Zacchaeus, the man in the tree. Our lectionary skips the preceding and contrasting story about the wealthy official who, unlike Zacchaeus, cannot give to the poor in order to follow Jesus. So clearly Zacchaeus, who is wealthy, has the internal freedom to give…
For several of the last years, I met homeless people, at shelters, or as patients at the county hospital. It surprised me how they almost never made excuses for themselves. They admitted freely to addictions, to lives marked by irresponsibility and even crime — that is, they were admitted sinners.…
“But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Our Gospel ends with this question. It is not easy being a disciple of Christ, and in Luke’s Christian community, some people had given up their faith because the second coming of Christ in glory had not…
Outsiders, “others,” are prominent in Sunday Scriptures this week. In the Hebrew Scripture reading, we hear the ending of the Naaman story. He was a Syrian who comes to the Hebrew prophet Elijah for healing. The Gospel follows with the account of the curing of 10 lepers — themselves ostracized…
