Category: Pastor’s Message

January 31, 2010 The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” In today’s Gospel, people didn’t recognize Jesus as anyone more than just a Nazarean like them. He was merely the son of Joseph. Like Jesus, some people don’t get recognized. Recently more than 1,000 folks hurried past the world famous…
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January 24, 2010 The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Sometimes we hear the word, but just don’t understand. The people in the synagogue did not recognize that Jesus was talking about himself when he declared that he was the fulfillment of the scripture he had just read…
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January 17, 2010 The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Timing is everything. Jesus was waiting for a sign from the Spirit to begin his ministry. He went to a wedding at Cana with his disciples and his mother, who noticed that the young couple had run out of wine. She told Jesus about it. At…
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January 10, 2010 Baptism of the Lord Baptism is the third welcoming ceremony for a newborn child. The first was at birth, when the parents embraced the new child into their lives. The second was when the rest of the family greeted their newest member. The third is the rite of baptism when the child…
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