Four men carried a paralytic
(Audience: Deacon Candidates) Sickness comes from sin. Sickness is not healed until sin is forgiven. The man is healed, therefore forgiven. We understand this, of course. The Scribes understood too,…
The Holy Family (2025)
The Holy Family – This is your annual reminder that Holiness is not only for Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The Catechism tells us that “All Christians in any state or…
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To Whom did John Go?
Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, the tetrarchs Herod, Philip and Lysanias, Annas, Caiphas… Today’s Gospel begins with a litany, though perhaps not a litany of saints. Tiberius – started strong, invested…
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Jesus looked at him and loved him
When we speak of the word of God, we speak simultaneously of the scriptures and of Jesus the Word made flesh. When we read the scriptures, they read us. If…
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We do not think as God does
Humans think a good life is an easy life. Jesus says take up your cross. Humans think victory means not losing. Jesus shows that it is rising again. Humans think…