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The Third Sunday of Advent brings us the story of St. John the Baptist telling those to be baptized to put sin behind them, be generous, don't abuse others or take advantage. It is very different from self-help as the next thing St. John says is to prepare for the one that will baptize with water and fire.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121524.cfm
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The Gospel of Luke tells the story of St. John the Baptist on the Second Sunday of Advent:
A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The winding roads shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
Help always comes from the boonies, the outsiders. Learn more this week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120824.cfm
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Mangler du episoder?
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This weekend we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. ""My kingdom does not belong to this world.
If my kingdom did belong to this world,
my attendants would be fighting
to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.
But as it is, my kingdom is not here." John 18
How is Jesus a king as David was king and God is king. This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112424.cfm
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Spiritual, but not religious is to be alone in a dangerous neighborhood. Christ is both the Messiah and the New Temple. Why does he answer our human needs for security. This week on OVC.
Architectural model of the temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem After a design by Thomas Newberry British (1883)
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 554 This monumental nineteenth-century architectural model of Solomon’s Temple exhibits skilled craftsmanship and exquisite artistry, as well as architectural ingenuity and conceptual brilliance.
Readings 33rd Sunday in OT: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111724.cfm
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In the image, Melchizedek lays his hands on Abram. The Book of Hebrews looks at this moment in Genesis as the origin of the priesthood of Christ. "Brothers and sisters:
The levitical priests were many
because they were prevented by death from remaining in office,
but Jesus, because he remains forever,
has a priesthood that does not pass away.
Therefore, he is always able to save those who approach God through him,
since he lives forever to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7. What does this have to do with Jesus and the Temple Mount in the Gospel for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time. This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110324.cfm
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Ambition, glory and honor - is the desire for these things evil. Jesus doesn't say that. Instead, to be ambitious in service, to be the least of all and the servant of all, this is ambition, glory and honor in God's eyes.
""You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10
Readings for the 29th Sunday in OT: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102024.cfm
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Prudence is good judgment expressed in the choices you make. The grace of prudence is to choose wisely about matters eternal. In this week's OVC, the Lord teaches this lesson to a wealthy young man.
"I prayed, and prudence was given me;
I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,
nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;
because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand,
and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.
Beyond health and comeliness I loved her,
and I chose to have her rather than the light,
because the splendor of her never yields to sleep.
Yet all good things together came to me in her company,
and countless riches at her hands." Wisdom 7
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101324.cfm
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"But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh." Mark 10.
This week, Jesus on Marriage and Divorce on OVC.
Art: Marriage Contract: Late Period, 380–343 B.C. Dating to the 30th Dynasty, just before the conquest of the Persian Empire and hence of Egypt by Alexander the Great, this papyrus records a marriage contract. It is written in Demotic, which refers both to the language itself (a late form of Egyptian) and to the script.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100624.cfm
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My Sunday homily on vocation to the priesthood.
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For some people tatoos are personal expressions, windows to the soul. Can you recognize someone's true self through a tattoo? Flannery O'Connor says yes! Tatoos are subjective expressions of the human interior life. Sacraments are visible expressions of the reality of divine life. This week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092224.cfm
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God's love is unconditional. Discipleship is not. "You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble." James 2: 19 What are the conditions of discipleship? Listen this week to OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091524.cfm
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Supernatural events both holy and demonic. What to do about them? The Vatican has some new instructions, this week on OVC.
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The Eucharist and the power of God. "Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ: for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Cor. 12:9. Power in our weakness, John 6, this week on OVC.
Readings for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082524.cfm
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Fr. John' homily for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081824.cfm
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Learn about the teen experience of the Steubenville West retreat.
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We are saved by faith, not by sight. Sin disintegrates the human integration of body and soul. Sin teaches us to love the corruption of evil instead of the holiness of God. The Eucharist is the remedy for our sin sick souls. More this week on OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080424.cfm
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This weeks Gospel from John 6 tells the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 in the desert. It is the beginning on Jesus' discourse on the Eucharist. "Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you." John 6:53. Catholics understand that Christ is substantially present, body, soul, divinity in the Eucharist - we call this the real presence. Why do we differ, however, about receiving in the hand or on the tongue? Lots to talk about there in this weeks OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072824.cfm
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In the Gospel from Mark 6, Jesus sends out the twelve apostles with authority over demons, to anoint with oil to cure the sick and the power to preach the good news, "Repent." In short, go beyond your mind (metanoia) and change how you think. We tether our spiritual life to reality when we meditate on the circumstances of our upcoming death and what it says about our life in the here and now. Take courage and follow 'the Way.'
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071424.cfm
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Jesus comes home to Nazareth in Mark 6. He is met with skepticism and rejection despite all of his signs and teaching. Dr. Carlos Eire of Yale University has written a book challenging the ubiquity of modern skepticism. In They Flew: A History of the Impossible, Dr. Eire discusses levitation and other preternatural phenomenon amongst three Catholics, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Joseph Cupertino and Ven. Maria Agreda. Multiple witnesses and many fantastic experiences open up a discussion of what is possible in reality. Eire challenges the comfortable skepticism and its foundations with a discussion of the history of the impossible.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070724.cfm
Art: Saint Teresa of Avila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory
Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens Flemish (public domain)
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What is love? Is it based on the qualities another has, or the length of a relationship, or just something inside me? St. Thomas Aquinas maintains that all love is love of God according to our deepest desires. Learn more about love in this week's OVC.
Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062324.cfm
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