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Month: January 2012

3rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, “South Pacific”, the characters sing, “Some Enchanted Evening, you will see a stranger, you will see a stranger, across a crowded room.” They lyric continues that “you know,” even then, that he is the one. It concludes, “Once you have found him, never let him go.” Such was the…
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2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

In the 40’s frenzied bobby soxers screamed themselves into hysteria at the sight of the young singer Frank Sinatra. In the 60’s, it was Beatlemania as the rock group from England toured the United States. These days, another generation falls into a frenzy at the sight of teen idols like Justin Bieber. The pope is…
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EPIPHANY

King Herod will stop at nothing to eliminate a potential rival for his throne, even defying the heavenly sign of the star that announces this new King. Failing to co-opt the visiting astrologers, he dispatches his soldiers to kill every male infant in Bethlehem. Jesus is Lord, and his coming will challenge every other loyalty…
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