Pastor's Message:
22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
August 31, 2008
22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: PROFILES IN COURAGE
In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks us what it would profit us if we gained the whole world and forfeited our life. Things of this world are meaningless in heaven.
There once was a rich man who wanted to take his wealth with …
August 24, 2008
21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: STELLAR AND SHAME-FACED
Ronald Reagan enjoyed saying: “Hard work never hurt anybody, but why take the chance?”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that if we wish to follow him we must deny ourselves and take up our cross. Form the cushiony chair of comfortable …
August 17, 2008
20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: RELENTLESS LOVE
In the Christian world of 19th century Britain, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, because he came from an Italian family of Sephardic Jews, was treated by some as an outsider, ever after he joined the Anglican church.
Disraeli once said, “Through perseverance many people …
August 10, 2008
19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: GOD MOMENTS
One YouTube clip of magician Criss Angel shows him stepping off the side of a swimming pool and walking out onto the surface of the water. It looks like he’s walking on an unseen floor a few inches below the surface. Then …
August 2, 2008
18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: FEED THE HUNGRY
If you travel to the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus, in Turkey, you will see “wagon wheel” symbols carved in the doorways of the homes of the early Christians. These eight-spoked wheels were a secret, Christian symbol made by …
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