We’ve all heard the jokes that start out, “I’ve got good news and bad news. Which do you want first?” There’s one joke about two friends in the nursing home who spent hours reminiscing about their days playing baseball. They made a pact that the first one who died would come back to tell the…
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In the Gospel today, Simon the Pharisee is resentful of the “sinful” woman who is annointing and kissing the feet of Jesus. Jesus teaches Simon a lesson in forgiveness: “The greater the sin forgiven, the greater the love expressed. Jesus invites us to cancel debts and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Yet our…
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An old man named Otto prayed every week that God would let him win the lottery. Otto dreamed of getting a phone call from the lotter office. People even began to give him the nickname “Lotto” because winning was all he could talk about. But his phone never rang. After years of fervent prayer and…
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