6/28/09 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMEGOSPEL MARK 5:21-43 “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” In today’s Gospel, as Jesus restores the daughter of Jairus to life, he gently commands her to rise from her bed. He speaks in his Aramaic language. “Talitha cumi.” This is one of the rare occasions when the actual Aramaic…
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6/21/09 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 “Who is this whom even wind and sea obey?”A storm can be a terrifying experience. The wind shrieks in the rigging. Mammoth waves of black water crash on top of each other and burst into white foam. The boar slams into an advancing wave. As it…
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6/14/09 Solemnity – Most Holy Body and Blood of ChristGospel: Mark 14:12-16“This is my body. This is my Blood.”Three years after Christopher Columbus discovered America, Leonardo da Vinci, then 43 years old, began to paint his vision of the Last Supper on the wall of the dining room in the Santa Maria delle Gracie Church…
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6/7/09 Trinity Sunday Gospel Matthew 28:16-20 “Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” When Jesus sent the disciples out to all the world, they must have been fearful of such a monumental task. They might have wanted more than his assurance that he would…
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