November 8, 2009 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Henry Ward Beecher was a 19th century writer, clergyman, social reformer; abolitionist and speaker. In one of his many popular quotations he said, “It’s not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” In today’s first reading the poor widow gave the…
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Bulletin f
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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