Sunday Readings: Ecclesiastes 1.2; 2.21-23; Colossians 3.1-5,9-11; Luke 12.13-21 “You fool! This night your life will be demanded of you. To whom will all this piled up wealth of yours go?” – Luke 12.20 In Jesus’ parable a man builds bigger granaries for an abundant harvest and keeps the surplus for himself. These blessings in reserve […]
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Sunday Readings: Genesis 18.20-32; Colossians 2.12-14; Luke 11.1-13 “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” – Luke 11.9 To pray that God’s name be hallowed and that God’s kingdom come is to acknowledge that all barriers to love must be dissolved.
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Sunday Readings: Genesis 18.1-10; Colossians 1.24-28; Luke 10.38-42 “Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him to her home. She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teachings” – Luke 10.38-39 In Sunday’s gospel Mary sits at Jesus’ feet to listen to his
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Sunday Readings: Deuteronomy 30.10-136)?4; Colossians 1.15-20; Luke 10.25-37 “Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the man who fell in with the robbers?” – Luke 10.25-37 Compassion may be understood as the capacity to be attracted to and moved by the vulnerability of someone else. It requires the willingness to risk, to
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Sunday Readings: Isaiah 66.19-14; Galatians 6.14-18; Luke 10.1-9 “Jesus appointed 72 other missionaries and sent them in pairs ahead of him to every town and place he intended to visit.” – Luke 10.1 Jesus asks of new disciples the same radical, itinerant way of life he models on the way to Jerusalem. His followers will
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Gospel Reflection for June 30, 2019, 13th Sunday Ordinary Time Sunday Readings: 1 Kings 19.16, 19-21; Galatians 5.1, 13-18; Luke 9.51-62 “As the days were being fulfilled for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.” – Luke 9.51 In the first verse we hear this Sunday, Jesus sets out for
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Scripture Readings: Genesis 14:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-26; Luke 9.11-17 “Then taking the five loaves and the two fishes, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven, pronounced a blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to his disciples for distribution to the crowd.” – Luke 9.16 When we gather at Eucharist, we remember Jesus’ giving his whole
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In honor of the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ, we offer you a tiny retreat based on the feast’s Gospel. This retreat is especially for those who do not get Sunday by Sunday. Please feel free to pass the retreat on to a friend. To begin place yourself in the
Sunday Readings: Proverbs 8.22-31; Romans 5.1-5; John 16.12-15 “When the Spirit of truth comes, this One will guide you along the way of all truth. The Spirit will not speak independently but will speak only what the Spirit hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.” – John 16.13 In Sunday’s
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