Podcasts by Audio Divina
Audio Divina, is a Lectio-Divina styled reflection on the upcoming Sunday's gospel, presented by world-renowned biblical scholar Rev. Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB AM.
The podcast offers a fantastic resource to those who are studying, or simply hunger for the gift that comes from listening and understanding the Word of God.
Presented in a medium easily accessible to all ages in the modern world, it is a perfect example of Don Bosco's teaching that ministry must be presented to the young in a realm and a method that they can understand.
New episodes will be released each Wednesday of the week reflection on the coming Sunday's gospel.
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Living the in-between-time from 2022-05-18T01:02
6th Sunday of Easter: As Jesus moves further into his Last Discourse with his disciples before his passion, death, and resurrection, he tells them that he must depart from them. Bu...
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Practice what you preach - 8th Sunday of the Year from 2022-02-23T00:09:36
Practice what you preach: Called to live a radical questioning of the establishment compassionately, Jesus closes his Sermon on the Plain by asking that we be authentic, the we ...
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Sermon 2: Be compassionate - 7th Sunday of the Year from 2022-02-16T23:48:57
Sermon 2. Be compassionate: The radical nature of Jesus' preaching in his blessings and woes continues. He next instructs us on how we are to live the radical nature of God's ne...
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Sermon 1: The new Order - 6th Sunday of the Year from 2022-02-09T00:00
Sermon 1: The new Order: Jesus' ministry began with the call of the disciples. He next establishes his Twelve Apostles, his future missionaries, comes down onto a plain with them, ...
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Simon the sinner becomes Peter the disciple - 5th Sunday of the Year from 2022-02-02T00:41:38
Simon the sinner becomes Peter the disciple: Jesus' word attracts so many people that he must take refuge and preach from a boat. Simon the fisherman wonders about Jesus' comman...
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A scheme of Jesus' mission and destiny - 4th Sunday of the Year from 2022-01-26T00:00
A scheme of Jesus' mission and destiny: Directly related to Jesus' proclamation of God's year of favour last Sunday, not all are happy. Who does Jesus think he is? The people in...
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Luke's design and the Year of Favour - 3rd Sunday of the Year from 2022-01-19T00:00
Luke's design and the Year of Favour: The Year of Luke opens with a self-portrait of Luke, a third generation Christian, writing his story of Jesus for a Gentile world. The acti...
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Do whatever he tells you - Second Sunday of the Year from 2022-01-12T00:00
Do whatever he tells you: The Gospel reading for today, chosen from the Gospel of John, reports Jesus' first public act in that Gospel. Despite the challenge that Jesus issues t...
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The Mightier One has Come - The Baptism of the Lord from 2022-01-05T00:00
The Mightier One has Come: This Sunday marks the end of the Christmas celebrations and the beginnings of the Ordinary Sundays of the Year. We continue to read Luke's Gospel, as ...
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God's Revelation to the World - Feast of the Epiphany from 2021-12-29T00:00
God's Revelation to the World: The figures of wise men who come from the east represent the coming of the whole world to worship Jesus. The figures of Herod and his wise men rep...
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Busy with the affairs of my Father - The Holy Family from 2021-12-26T00:00
Busy with the affairs of my Father: The final epsiode of Luke's story of Jesus' infancy is the only place where Jesus speaks. His parents' concerns over his loss are challenged ...
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The Word became Flesh - Christmas Morning from 2021-12-25T00:00
The Word became Flesh: The Prologue to the Gospel of John is among the most profound passages in the Bible. It tells of the pre-existent union of love between God and the Word, ...
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Swaddling cloths and a manger on the road - Christmas Night from 2021-12-22T00:00
Swaddling cloths and a manger on the road: Luke's account of a birth of Jesus, as with the appearance of John the Baptist, is fixed in a given time and place. But it is surround...
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Why should we be honoured? - 4th Sunday of Advent from 2021-12-15T00:00
Why should we be honoured? Two mothers meet, as Mary visits Elizabeth. Elizabeth and the child she is carrying salute the greatness of Mary, a greatness that has been bestowed o...
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What must we do? - 3rd Sunday of Advent from 2021-12-08T00:00
What must we do?: Continuing his ministry of preparation for the Lord, John the Baptist instructs the people, the tax-collectors, and the soldiers, that they are to do justly wh...
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Prepare the Way of the Lord - 2nd Sunday of Advent from 2021-12-01T12:30
Prepare the Way of the Lord: The great figure of Advent, John the Baptist, set in a time and place in the history of humankind, proclaims a time of preparation for the Lord, and...
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The two advents of Jesus - 1st Sunday of Advent from 2021-11-24T02:35
The two advents of Jesus: The first Sunday of Advent does not focus upon the coming of Jesus at Christmas time, but on the final coming of Jesus at the end of all time. This Gos...
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I am a King - Jesus Christ-Universal King from 2021-11-17T00:30
I am a King: The final Sunday of Year B is dedicated to Jesus' universal kingship. As we have seen throughout our reflections on the Gospel of Mark, Jesus lays no claim to be a ...
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My words will not pass away from 2021-11-10T00:10
My words will not pass away: We hear words from the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark for the last time in Year B. Writing to Christians who thought that the end was near, he insists ...
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She has given her whole life from 2021-11-03T03:30
She has given her whole life: Following Jesus' encounter with a Scribe who accepts the centrality of the love commandment, Jesus attacks "the scribes" who pretend to be religiou...
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The first of all the commandments from 2021-10-27T01:30
The first of all the commandments: On arrival in Jerusalem, Jesus meets opposition. These passages are not in the Lectionary, but they lead to Jesus' encounter with a Scribe. Ac...
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Leaving all, he followed him from 2021-10-20T02:16
Leaving all, he followed him: The journey to Jerusalem is nearing its end, but as Jesus and the disciples climb from Jericho to Jerusalem, blind Bartimaeus abandons everything, ...
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Not to be served, but to serve from 2021-10-13T02:10
Not to be served, but to serve: James and John, and the other ten members of "the Twelve" continue to misunderstand Jesus. They seek only places of honour and authority. Jesus c...
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What must I do? from 2021-10-06T03:10
What must I do?: A rich man's desire to know what he must do to inherit eternal life leads Jesus to love him and focus upon the only thing that is blocking his commitment to the...
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From the beginning of creation from 2021-09-29T03:30
From the beginning of creation: Tested by the Pharisees on his interpretation of divorce, approved by Jewish Law under certain conditions, Jesus abandons Law, and describes how ...
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To be for or against Jesus from 2021-09-22T02:30
To be for or against Jesus: The disciples continue to misunderstand their call to follow Jesus, as they tried to stop someone who was not following them. Jesus against corrects ...
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Serving and receiving from 2021-09-15T02:00
Serving and receiving: Continuing his journey to Jerusalem, Jesus announces his forthcoming death and resurrection a second time. Again the disciples do not und...
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Who do you say that I am? from 2021-09-08T05:20
Who do you say that I am?: At the centre of Mark's Gospel, and after his recognition by the Gentiles, Jesus asks his disciples who they think he is. Peter's response, "You are t...
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A missionary journey into Gentile lands from 2021-09-01T01:00
A missionary journey into Gentile lands: Jesus sets out on a mission to Gentile lands. After healing the daughter of a Gentile woman, he journeys north and then east, always wal...
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Observing human traditions from 2021-08-25T03:30
Observing human traditions: After four Sundays reflecting upon John 6, the Lectionary returns to the Gospel of Mark, but maintains its focus upon "eating." The leaders of Israel...
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Decisions are made from 2021-08-18T00:00
Decisions are made: Jesus' teaching comes to an end, but many disciples find it too hard and leave him. Only the Twelve, led by Peter, confess their faith in him, but even among...
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"The Mother of My Lord" from 2021-08-11T00:00
"The Mother of My Lord": Immediately prior to this encounter in Luke's gospel tells of the annunciation of John the Baptist to Zechariah, and the annunciation of Jesus to Mary. ...
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Solemnity of Saint Mary of the Cross (McKillop) from 2021-08-04T02:23:40
Solemnity of Saint Mary of the Cross (McKillop): To celebrate the Feast of St Mary McKillop, the Church has wisely chosen a Gospel text from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. It is pe...
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The search for the true bread from heaven from 2021-07-28T04:35
The search for the true bread from heaven: Reunited at Capernum, the people still seek bread. But it is a bread that perishes, like the bread given in the desert during the Exod...
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A gift of bread at Passover time from 2021-07-21T01:30
A gift of bread at Passover time: Jesus gathers his disciples on a mountain by the Sea of Galilee at Passover, and many come because they have seen Jesus' miracles. He nourishes...
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The missionaries return, but need further guidance from 2021-07-14T00:45
The missionaries return, but need further guidance: While the disciples are on mission, John the Baptist is slain. They return, unaware that their mission will cost them everyth...
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The disciples are sent out on their first mission from 2021-07-07T00:00
The disciples are sent out on their first mission: Already called, Jesus now sends out his disciples to continue his mission, instructing them to depend only upon God, and to li...
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A prophet is despised only in his own country from 2021-06-30T02:10
A prophet is despised only in his own country: Jesus' wisdom and powerful miracles generate wonder when he comes home to his village. But his own people cannot see beyond his pa...
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Two women are given life by Jesus' touch from 2021-06-23T02:00
Two women are given life by Jesus' touch: The daughter of Jairus and the woman with a flow of blood experience new life because of the touch of Jesus.
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Jesus Controls the Storm from 2021-06-20T00:00
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Jesus teaches his new family about the Kingdom from 2021-06-09T05:05
Jesus teaches his new family about the Kingdom: Having established his new family, in the midst of rejection and opposition, Jesus begins to teach in parables, and the explain t...
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Do This In Memory of Me from 2021-06-02T03:35
Body and Blood of Christ: The account of Jesus' final supper with his disciples, a Passover meal, challenges all Christians to celebrate Eucharist in his memory, and to be a Euc...
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. from 2021-05-26T00:00
Trinity Sunday: The final words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew introduce something entirely new into the message of God's saving presence among us: a Father, a Son, and a Hol...
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The gift of the Spirit and our Mission from 2021-05-19T12:35
Pentecost Sunday: The Gospel of John tells of the gift of the Spirit on two occasions: at the Cross and at the Resurrection. One founds the Church, the other sends it forth in m...
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Living the in-between-time. - The Ascension of the Lord from 2021-05-12T06:05
The Ascension of the Lord: Early Christians found the fearful flight of the women that ended Mark's Gospel (Easter Night) hard to accept. They thus added a longer ending, tellin...
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The love commandment - Sixth Sunday of Easter from 2021-05-05T01:15
Sixth Sunday of Easter: Continuing the theme of abiding in the true vine from last Sunday, Jesus issues the command to love. Christians are to love as Jesus loves. He has chosen...
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I am the true vine - Fifth Sunday of Easter from 2021-04-28T06:45
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Jesus continues to identify himself with images that come from Israel's history. Israel was seen as God's vine. But Jesus is the "true vine." Only throug...
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I am the Good Shepherd - Fourth Sunday of Easter from 2021-04-21T00:00
I am the Good Shepherd: Catching up a theme dear to Israel, the Messiah as a shepherd, that comes from the story of King David, Jesus makes it known that he is not just the shep...
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Witnesses of repentance and forgiveness of sins - Third Sunday of Easter from 2021-04-14T02:20
Third Sunday of Easter: In a way that repeats what happened to the disciples walking to Emmaus, Jesus is present to his disciples, offering them peace, joy and sharing a meal wi...
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Faith is born in the earliest Church - Second Sunday of Easter from 2021-04-07T04:40
Second Sunday of Easter: Today’s reading focuses upon The risen Jesus’ gift of peace and to frightened disciples. Most importantly, it blesses all subsequent disciples who, unli...
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We do not know where they have put him - Easter Sunday from 2021-04-04T00:00
Easter Sunday: Neither Mary Magdalene or the two disciples recognise that Jesus has been raised, even though the see the emptiness of the tomb and the burial cloths. But t...
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Early in the first day - Easter Vigil from 2021-04-02T23:00
Easter Vigil: The women who have been at the Cross and seen the burial have no idea of a resurrection. But an empty tomb and the Easter message announce that Jesus has bee...
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A crucified King - Good Friday from 2021-04-01T23:00
Good Friday: A story of Jesus' lifting up and enthronement as King on the Cross.
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I give you an example - Holy Thursday from 2021-03-31T23:00
Holy Thursday: Jesus symbolically shows his limitless love for his own in his self-gift for “his own.” His loving care for others is the way all his disciples are called to foll...
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My God, why have you abandoned me? - Passion Sunday from 2021-03-24T02:00
Passion Sunday: The passion account of the Gospel of Mark is full of violence and pain. But in his suffering he shares bread and wine with those who deny, betray and flee,...
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The hour has come - Fifth Sunday of Lent from 2021-03-17T02:00
Fifth Sunday of Lent: With the arrival of non-Jews who wish to see Jesus, he recognises that the hour of his lifting up and glorification on the Cross has come.
God so loved the world - Fourth Sunday of Lent from 2021-03-09T23:00
Fourth Sunday of Lent: The heart of the message of the Gospel of John: the reason why God sent his Son into the world: to love, and not to judge.
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Listen to him! - Second Sunday of Lent from 2021-02-23T23:00
Second Sunday of Lent: As Jesus calls disciples, his transfiguration shows and tells who he is, and why all who claim to follow him must listen to him.
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He was with the wild beasts - First Sunday of Lent from 2021-02-18T11:30
First Sunday of Lent: Mark’s very brief account of Jesus’ temptation tells of his re-establishing God’s original created design.
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Reward from your Father in Heaven - Ash Wednesday, Year B from 2021-02-17T00:45:30
Ash Wednesday: Jesus instructs his disciples to focus upon the God who makes sense of life and love, rather than themselves and their glory.
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"If you want to... Of course I want to!" - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B from 2021-02-09T23:17:58
"If you want to... Of course I want to!"
The opening cycle of Jesus' miracles comes to a close in this encounter with a leper, who is ostracised from society and regarded...
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The Kingdom of God Must Go Elsewhere - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B from 2021-02-02T22:42:05
The Kingdom of God Must Go Elsewhere:
Jesus remains closely associated with the town of Capernaum as the goodness and healing of the Kingdom of God that comes in his word...
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An Authoritative Teaching That is New - 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B from 2021-01-26T23:00
An Authoritative Teaching That is New:
No longer alone, Jesus teaches in the Synagogue in Capernaum. All wonder at the newness and authority of his teaching. Then he teac...
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A Vocation that Costs no Less than Everything - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B from 2021-01-20T06:19:44
A Vocation that Costs no Less than Everything: Bursting onto the scene alone, Jesus announces that the Kingdom of God is at hand. His first action is to call others to follow hi...
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What is it that you expect from Jesus? - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B from 2021-01-13T08:01:58
What is it that You Expect from Jesus?: Like all the Gospels, John opens with the call of the first disciples. The Baptist points away from himself, directing his disciples to t...
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My Son, the Beloved - The Baptism of the Lord, Year B from 2021-01-05T23:00
My Son The Beloved: The Baptism of Jesus leads us from our celebration of the incarnation of God in the person of Jesus, to reflection upon the ministry among us that lies ahead...
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A Child Reveals God to the World - The Epiphany of the Lord, Year B from 2020-12-29T23:00
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Unshakable Trust in the Ways of God - The Holy Family, Year B from 2020-12-26T22:00
Unshakable Trust in the Ways of God:
Mary and Joseph respond without question to the Law of Israel as they present their first-born in the Temple. They are told that thei...
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The Word Became Flesh - Christmas Day Year B from 2020-12-22T23:30
The Word became Flesh: The Prologue to the Gospel of John is among the most profound passages in the Bible. It tells of the pre-existent union of love between God and the Word, ...
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Swaddling Cloths and a Manger on the Road - Christmas Night, Year B from 2020-12-21T23:56:18
Swaddling cloths and a manger on the road: Luke's account of a birth of Jesus, as with the appearance of John the Baptist, is fixed in a given time and place. But it is surround...
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Accepting the Word of God - 4th Sunday of Advent, Year B from 2020-12-15T23:00
Accepting the Word of God:
The final Sunday of Advent points toward Christmas Day with a Gospel reflection on the Annunciation to Mary of Nazareth. One of the most belov...
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I am not the Christ - 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B from 2020-12-08T23:00
I am not the Christ:
The Roman liturgy devotes two Sundays to the figure of John the Baptist to help us prepare for Christmas. In the Gospel of John he is presented as b...
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The Witness of John the Baptist - 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B from 2020-12-01T23:00
The Witness of John the Baptist:
The opening page of the Gospel of Mark presents two amazing witnesses to the coming of Jesus.
First of all, the voice of God call...
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The Two Advents of Jesus - 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B from 2020-11-24T23:00
The Two Advents of Jesus:
Today’s Gospel reading comes from the end of Jesus' ministry in the Gospel of Mark, repeating much of what we encountered in the final weeks o...
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Recognising Jesus in the Least of his Brethren - Christ the King, Year A from 2020-11-17T23:00
Recognising Jesus in the Least of his Brethren:
Closing our year of reflection upon the Gospel of Matthew, we hear of Jesus’ Lordship over the good and the evil.
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Living the In-Between-Time - 33rd Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-11-10T23:00
Living the In-Between-Time :
Jesus instructs us on the seriousness of our commitment to the in-between-time. The Master leaves for a distant land and gives his servants ...
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The Gift of the Now and the Promise of the Not Yet - Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A from 2020-11-03T23:51:02
The Gift of the Now and the Promise of the Not Yet:
As Jesus' life-story comes to an end, he focusses his attention upon the end of all history, and God's final judgment....
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A Program for Holiness - All Saints Day, Year A from 2020-10-27T23:00
A Program for Holiness:
We pause our reading of the final pages of Matthew to go back to the beginning of Jesus' ministry in his sermon on the mount, where a new and perf...
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The greatest commandment - 30th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-10-20T21:57:13
The greatest commandment: Bringing the conflict between Jesus and the leaders of Israel to an end, Jesus astounds them as they attempt to trap him in a debate over the most impo...
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Give to God what belongs to God - 29th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-10-13T22:02:44
Give to God what belongs to God: The leaders of Israel take the initiative, sending representatives of the Pharisees and some Herodians to trap Jesus. Righteous Religion - the P...
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Invitation to a wedding feast - 28th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-10-06T22:30:25
Invitation to a wedding feast: Through the parable of the wedding feast, Jesus continues his questioning of Israel's leadership. But this is no ordinary wedding. It is the weddi...
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The stone rejected by the builders that is the keystone - 27th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-09-30T02:04:06
The stone rejected by the builders that is the keystone: Jesus continues to challenge the leaders of Israel. Adopting the symbol of a Vineyard for God's chosen people, he accuse...
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Putting our lives where our words are. - 26th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-09-22T22:22:17
Putting our lives where our words are: Jesus has now entered Jerusalem, and driven out those who would make the Temple into a robbers' den. He resumes conflict with the leaders ...
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The Kingdom of Heaven is different! - 25th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-09-16T01:11:02
The Kingdom of Heaven is different: Jesus' final moment teaching his disciples is dedicated to increasing their understanding of the strangeness of God. The payment of a denariu...
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Be compassionate as I am compassionate - 24th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-09-09T01:10:54
Be compassionate as I am compassionate: Peter thinks that we can put a number on the people whom we forgive. Jesus continues to insist on the radical nature of Christian forgive...
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See how they love one another - 23rd Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-09-01T23:12:13
See how they love one another: Today's Gospel comes from Matthew's description of to Jesus' formation of disciples. He delivers a discourse on how the Christian community is to ...
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The challenge of being a disciple of the Son of Man - Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-08-25T23:25:46
The challenge of being a disciple of the Son of Man: The faith-filled Peter, the rock upon whom the Church is built, today becomes another rock: a stone, a stumbling block. Jesu...
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The Gift of True Faith in Jesus - Twenty-First Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-08-19T00:13:27
The gift of true faith in Jesus: We have seen Peter's little faith in the storm. Today he responds well - on behalf of all believing disciples - to Jesus' question, "Who do you ...
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Scraps from the Master's Table - 20th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-08-11T23:00
Scraps from the Master's Table: Jesus has fed Israel from his table. But they prefer their own ways to his gifts. A Canaanite woman highlights their weakness, and point out the ...
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Jesus' presence to those of little faith - 19th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-08-04T23:27:04
Jesus' presence to those of little faith: One of the most evocative Gospel stories follows immediately upon the multiplication of the loaves and fish. Jesus, after a moment with...
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You give them something to eat - 18th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-07-28T22:33:06
You give them something to eat: The multiplication of the loaves and fishes at the lake is a foretaste of the Eucharist, but it is more. Jesus heals the crowds who seek him eage...
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Treasures both old and new - 17th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-07-21T22:19:26
Treasures both old and new: Jesus has spoken of the inevitable victory of the Kingdom, and the fact that it is gathered from a mixed bag of believers and non-believers. Today Je...
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Seed is sown. Will it bear fruit? - 15th Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-07-07T23:00
Seed is sown. Will it bear fruit?: Jesus begins to tell a series of parables that will be received by some and rejected by others. The leaders of Israel remain "outside" the Kin...
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The Necessary Yoke and Burden - 14th Sunday of the Year - Year A from 2020-07-01T02:54:32
The necessary yoke and burden: As the Gospel of Matthew moves away from the description of Jesus as a preacher and a healer, he will begin to encounter opposition. Before that b...
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The costs and rewards of discipleship - 13th Sunday of the Year - Year A from 2020-06-23T23:00
The costs and rewards of discipleship: Today's Gospel is dominated by the expression "anyone." That means all of us! We are first challenged by need to put the love of Jesus Chr...
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Do not be afraid - Twelfth Sunday of the Year from 2020-06-16T23:09:50
Do not be afraid: Sent out as missionaries of Jesus, he instructs us that we must not fear. There will be difficulties, but we are to trust in God, who cares for the smallest an...
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We are the eucharistic presence of Jesus Christ - Body and Blood of Christ from 2020-06-10T00:24:24
We are the eucharistic presence of Jesus Christ: All of the Gospels tell of Jesus' multiplication of the loaves and fish by the Lake of Galilee. John reports Jesus' words to his...
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The oneness that Love creates - Trinity Sunday from 2020-06-03T00:08:14
The oneness that Love creates: This brief Gospel is one of the most famous texts from the Bible. Behind these few famous words of Jesus lies the secret of what we call the myste...
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The oneness that Love creates - Trinity Sunday from 2020-06-03T00:08:14
The oneness that Love creates: This brief Gospel is one of the most famous texts from the Bible. Behind these few famous words of Jesus lies the secret of what we call the myste...
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The gift of the Spirit puts and end to fear - Pentecost Sunday from 2020-05-27T00:29:25
The gift of the Spirit puts and end to fear: In the Gospel of John's account of the encounter between the risen Jesus and his disciples, they gather again in the upper room. Bef...
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I will be with you always! from 2020-05-19T23:00
I will be with you always! The celebration of the Ascension of the Lord marks the end of an era. Jesus is no longer with us. The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles tell...
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To love Jesus and to keep the commandment of love from 2020-05-12T23:00
To love Jesus and to keep the commandment of love: Anyone who claims to love Jesus must live according to his commandments. We all hope to love Jesus, but wonder if we can keep ...
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I am the way, the truth, and the life - 5th Sunday of Easter from 2020-05-05T23:15:38
I am the way, the truth, and the life: Last week, we heard Jesus present himself as "the gate," and now we hear why - he is the way, the truth, and the life. On the night before...
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I am the gate! from 2020-04-29T04:38:50
I am the gate!: The tenth chapter of the Gospel of John eventually identifies Jesus as the Good Shepherd, as do other passages in the Gospels (see John 10:11-18; Luke 15:3-7; Ma...
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From Jerusalem to Emmaus, and back again! from 2020-04-22T01:59:18
From Jerusalem to Emmaus, and back again!: For Luke, the centre-point of God's saving presence among us is Jerusalem. There all the Paschal events take place. There the communit...
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Blessed are Those Who do not See, Yet Believe from 2020-04-15T01:00:45
Blessed are those who do not see, yet believe: Today’s reading focuses upon the risen Jesus’ gift of peace to his frightened disciples. Most importantly, it blesses all subsequent disciples who, un...
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The Birth of Easter Faith from 2020-04-11T23:30
The Birth of Easter Faith: The empty tomb does not generate belief in Jesus as the Risen One for Mary Magdalene, Simon Peter and the Beloved Disciple. But they are drawn to the tomb. There they see...
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The Risen Jesus Promises a New Era in Galilee from 2020-04-11T00:00
Matthew reports earth-shattering events such as an earthquake, splitting of rocks and the resurrection of the dead at Jesus' death and resurrection, marking the turning point of the ages. The women...
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The Death of Jesus, and the Birth of the Church from 2020-04-10T06:38:50
Matthew's passion narrative tells the story of Jesus' last night with his disciples, his arrest, trials, and eventual execution. Through this account of Jesus' unjust and violent death Matthew has ...
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The Foot Washing from 2020-04-09T00:00
Jesus symbolically shows his limitless love for his own in his self-gift for “his own.” His loving care for others is the way all his disciples are called to follow.
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The Death of Jesus, and the Birth of a New Era from 2020-04-01T11:00
Matthew's passion narrative tells the story of Jesus' unjust and violent death, insinuating a message central to his understanding of what God has done for us in and through Jesus: he has opened t...
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Do you believe this? - 5th Sunday of Lent - Year A from 2020-03-24T23:27:11
The disciples, Martha, Mary, and the Jewish people all struggle to cope with Jesus' claim to be the resurrection and the life. His restoration of Lazarus to life is a sign that his claim is true, ...
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From blindness to sight - from sight to blindness - 4th Sunday of Lent from 2020-03-17T22:30
The story of the man born blind leads us further in our understanding of true faith. Gradually he comes to confess that "the man called Jesus" is a "prophet," possibly "from God," and falls before ...
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The Saviour of the World - 3rd Sunday of Lent Year A from 2020-03-10T22:00
The Samaritan woman is led by Jesus from total inability to accept his offer of waters that will produce eternal life, through the hope that he might be the Messiah. Summoned by their kinswoman, th...
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No Place to Pitch a Tent from 2020-03-03T23:34:07
The transfiguration indicates that the suffering Son of Man is also the Messiah, the Son of God. Chosen disciples are witness to this truth, and they would like to bring Jesus' journey to death to...
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Reward from your Father in Heaven - Ash Wednesday Year A from 2020-02-26T01:00
Jesus instructs his disciples to focus upon the God who makes sense of life and love, rather than themselves and their glory.
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The testing of God's Son - 1st Sunday of Lent, Year A from 2020-02-25T22:40:02
Our Lenten Gospels begin with Matthew's account of Jesus' temptation by Satan. Immediately prior to this passage, a voice from heaven cried out that Jesus is God's beloved Son so Satan tests whethe...
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To be perfect as our Father is perfect - 7th Sunday of the Year from 2020-02-18T22:08:40
Jesus ends the pattern of teaching the Law of Moses, the end-point is a vocation to love. The practice of vengeance must be replaced with unconditional love for all. As God loves us unconditionally...
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Until heaven and earth disappear - 6th Sunday of the Year from 2020-02-11T22:00
Jesus continues to reflect upon the Laws by reminding everyone of them. He interprets that law with the words, "But I say to you." On the authority of his own person and word he does not deny the v...
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Salt of the earth and light of the world - 5th Sunday of the Year from 2020-02-05T00:29:01
The famous sermon on the mount, Jesus insists that Christian life must flow from deep internal faith. When that is the case, the lives of Christians will continue and perfect the function of the La...
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Salvation for all the Nations from 2020-01-29T00:56:26
Jesus' is presented in the Jerusalem Temple where Simeon proclaims that a new age has arrived. All the Scriptures expected has arrived: light for both Jew and Gentile. Yet, this child will cause di...
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Jesus ' ministry begins with power from 2020-01-21T22:27:40
The ministry of Jesus opens as that of John the Baptist comes to a close. His presence in Galilee recalls the promise of the Prophet Isaiah that light now dawns for both Israel and the Gentiles. Je...
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The Lamb of God and Son of God - 2nd Sunday of the Year, Year A from 2020-01-14T21:56:26
John the Baptist sees Jesus passing but as the most reliable witness to Jesus, he can look upon Jesus and proclaim that he is the Lamb of God. He perfects the Jewish tradition of an expiatory lamb...
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All that Righteousness Demands - The Baptism of the Lord, Year A from 2020-01-07T21:00
All Gospels record Jesus' Baptism; the moment he begins his public messianic ministry. Matthew alone records God has a plan, through Jesus' interactions with John the Baptist. Jesus' first words in...
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The Man from Nazareth - The Holy Family - Year A from 2019-12-25T22:00
The birth of Jesus was accompanied by the murder of innocent Jewish children and a return from Egypt, fulfilling a prophecy that once applied to Moses: "Out of Egypt I have called my Son." However,...
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The Word became Flesh - Christmas Day Year A from 2019-12-24T20:00
The Prologue to the Gospel of John is among the most profound passages in the Bible. It tells of the pre-existent union of love between God and the Word, the Word's saving gifts of light and life, ...
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Swaddling cloths and a manger on the road - Christmas Night, Year A from 2019-12-23T23:30
Luke's account of a birth of Jesus, as with the appearance of John the Baptist, is fixed in a given time and place. But it is surrounded by the symbols of swaddling cloths, only used for a king, a ...
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Born of the Spirit, the Saviour and the Emmanuel - 4th Sunday of Advent Year A from 2019-12-17T23:49:14
Jesus' birth story contains a message full of wonderful promise. The puzzlement of Mary's pregnancy is overcome by the angel's explanation that this child is “of the Spirit". Matthew's story of Jes...
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Are you the one who is to come? - 3rd Sunday of Advent Year A from 2019-12-11T01:50:09
From prison, John the Baptist asks an anxious question of Jesus: is he the one who is to come, or must we wait for another. Jesus responds by announcing that he is the fulfilment of the messianic p...
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The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand - 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A from 2019-12-03T22:35:45
John the Baptist calls for conversion, and the acceptance of a ritual of baptism using the words that Jesus will also use. But what John is doing is only a preparation for the fiery immersion into ...
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The Two Advents of Jesus - 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A from 2019-11-27T02:57:19
Towards the end of Matthew's Gospel, Jesus uses the story of Noah to teach us that the ordinary things go on as we live our Christian lives, rejoicing in what we were given at the first coming of J...
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A crucified King? - Christ the King, Year C from 2019-11-19T22:10:49
As Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple, his disciples assume that he is speaking of the proximate end of the world. He corrects them by pointing to the long history of suffering and faithf...
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When will the end come? - 33rd Sunday of the Year, Year C from 2019-11-12T22:00
As Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple, his disciples assume that he is speaking of the proximate end of the world. He corrects them by pointing to the long history of suffering and faithf...
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The Sadducees strike back - 32nd Sunday of the Year, Year C from 2019-11-05T22:00
Having arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus preaches in the Temple. The Sadducees attempt to discredit his teaching, based on their understanding of the Law. Jesus shows them that they neither understand th...
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Jesus and the tax-collector from 2019-10-29T22:37:05
As Jesus passes through Jericho, nearing Jerusalem, a tax-collector is prepared to make a fool of himself to see him. Lovingly welcomed by Jesus, everyone is shocked that a religious figure like Je...
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The Pharisee and the tax collector - 30th Sunday of the Year, Year C from 2019-10-23T00:57:33
Jesus tells his famous parable about a Pharisee who thinks he is a good person, and a tax-collector who is aware of his failures. This situation endures today. We are all called to approach God hum...
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Faith and prayer - 29th Sunday of the Year - Year C from 2019-10-15T23:47:05
Wicked and unjust judges can be persuaded to render justice if it serves their own ends, so how much more would our gracious God give hope and satisfaction to those who turn to him? But we must bel...
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The faith of a Samaritan - 28th Sunday of the Year - Year C from 2019-10-09T00:15
Jesus' journey to Jerusalem goes on, and he encounters ten lepers. Asked to fulfill the legal requirements to re-enter Jewish society through the approval of the priest, they set off, only to find ...
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The faith of a servant - 27th Sunday of the Year - Year C from 2019-10-01T23:59:59
As Jesus' instruction of his disciples nears the end, he focuses upon the need for faith. Jesus instructs them that even with very little faith, they will work miracles. Faithful servants receive e...
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What if someone should rise from the dead? from 2019-09-24T23:02:36
Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus is told entirely in the light of Jewish folk-lore. As their situations are reversed, the rich man speaks to Abraham, seeking comfort for himself, and ligh...
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Jesus praises the cunning steward - 25th Sunday of the Year - Year C from 2019-09-17T23:00
Today's Gospel is puzzling. The rich man's steward seems to be a thief, yet Jesus praises him. The Jewish law against making interest on a loan lies behind the steward's actions, and the master mus...
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There was a man who had two sons - 24th Sunday of the Year - C from 2019-09-10T22:39:13
The God who brings fire on earth in and through Jesus, who sends us to the broken, and asks that we place first things first may seem demanding. But that same God is the Father who gives his childr...
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The Cost of Discipleship from 2019-09-04T01:42:36
Jesus' challenging words on discipleship now seem to become more than challenging: they are harsh. Anyone who wishes to be a disciple much reckon their deepest and most intimate relationships, and ...
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Whoever exalts himself will be humbled - 22nd Sunday of the Year. C from 2019-08-28T01:25:52
Within the setting of one of Luke's favourite scenes, a meal-table, Jesus turns the value-system and the way of judging one another on its head. We expect honours and privileges to be given to the ...
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We have heard you preach and shared your table from 2019-08-21T01:00
When asked who will be saved, Jesus responds that we must work hard to enter the narrow door. Many who regard themselves as having a privileged place because they have shared a meal with Jesus and ...
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Fire on earth - 20th Sunday of the Year from 2019-08-14T02:47:20
A fire burnt in the life of Jesus, his unconditional acceptance of what his Father asked of him, and it dominated his life- to the Cross. The same fire burns in all of us who follow him. We are cal...
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Servants of the Servant Messiah - 19th Sunday of the Year from 2019-08-07T01:09:28
Jesus instructs his disciples on the need for them to be servants, ready for the return of their servant Messiah, so that he may serve them yet again. We only know that this moment will come. We do...
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Storing up treasure - 18th Sunday of the Year from 2019-07-31T01:35:44
It is important that we be good stewards of the treasures that come to us through our hard work, and our care for others. But the danger is that we come to thing that our lives are made secure by w...
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Teach us to pray from 2019-07-24T02:03:06
Today's Gospel tells us how to respond to our God, who is our Father, as Jesus responded to his Father. This much loved prayer calls us to place God's name and God's kingdom first. How hard that ca...
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To serve, to listen - or both? from 2019-07-17T04:11:57
The famous episode of Jesus' presence in the house of Martha, accompanied by her sister Mary, must be interpreted in the light of immediately before this account, Luke tells last week's parable: th...
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Who is my neighbour? from 2019-07-10T01:00
A lawyer wishes to get the better of Jesus. Is Jesus able to give one Law that gives eternal life? He provides that law of love of God and neighbor, but the lawyer insists - who is my neighbour? Je...
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To be a missionary of Jesus from 2019-07-03T01:00
As Jesus set out for Jerusalem, he instructed his disciples on the cost of discipleship. However, there is more to being a disciple of Jesus. A disciple must also be a missionary: sent out to procl...
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Following Jesus to Jerusalem from 2019-06-26T02:38:58
Today's reading marks a turning point in the story of Jesus. After his ministry in Galilee, he sets his face to go to Jerusalem, where he will be received into heaven. But a Samaritan village will...
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They all ate, and were filled. from 2019-06-19T02:05:38
Luke's account of the multiplication of the loves and fishes tells us of Jesus' ongoing eucharistic presence, always open in the baskets of pieces of bread that remain at the end of the meal. But ...
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The Father, his Word, and his Truth - Trinity Sunday from 2019-06-12T01:10:58
Easter Season closed with the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit. The "Ordinary time of the year" begins with the extraordinary tradition of our triune God. Jesus always looked to his Fathe...
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The Holy Spirit will teach you everything from 2019-06-05T02:47:30
The Season of Easter closes in the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit. A new law, the Law of Jesus, now determines our lives. The role of the Spirit is to keep reminding us of that law, gui...
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