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November 1, 2009 All Saints Day When the peace activist Jesuit Fr. John Dear was discerning his vocation, he took a trip to the Holy Land. One afternoon he went up the hill where Jesus preached his Sermon on the Mount. On a plateau overlooking the Sea of Galilee he found the beautiful little Church…
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October 18, 2009 Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 10:35-45 The English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton once observed: “There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.” James and John, in their vanity, want to sit with Jesus on his throne in the kingdom. Jesus…
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October 11, 2009 Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 10:17-30 A rich man was dying, and when an angel appeared to tell him it was time to go, he pleaded with the angel to let him take one piece of luggage. The angel agreed, so the man got out his biggest suitcase and…
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October 4, 2009 Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 Despite the fact that Jesus said people “will not separate what God has joined together,” men and women are doing a lot of separating these days. Studies say that nearly half of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. More and…
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