Category: Pastor’s Message

 8-16-09           TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME                                                                         GOSPEL:  JOHN 6:51-58 “My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.” Today’s Gospel speaks of “eating flesh and drinking blood” – uncomfortable images of human and animal sacrifice.  We are far removed from an altar heaped with offerings to appease an angry god.  Yet, the…
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 8/09/09            NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME                                                                         GOSPEL: JOHN 6:41-51 “I am the living bread that came down from heaven.” In today’s Gospel Jesus makes an astounding promise.  He says, “Anyone who believes has eternal life.”  With such a prize it would seem that everyone should be busy about making sure they believe. Yet many…
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 8/2/09     EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME                                                             GOSPEL: JOHN 6:24-35 “Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” A little girl walked to and from school every day.  One morning the weather looked bad.  By afternoon the wind had whipped up and the lightning began to crackle…
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7/26/09 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: John 6:1-15 “He distributed as much as they wanted to those who were reclining.” If Jesus were to perform his miracles today, he would be wanted by the FDA for turning water into wine without an alcohol permit; the EPA for killing fig trees; the AMA for practicing…
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7/19/09 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 6:30-34 “They were like sheep without a shepherd.” A cartoonist depicts a father besieged with demands. His boss is on the phone demanding the report that was due at 10 that morning. Someone is pounding on the front door. The family dog is barking. His little daughter…
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