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ARCHIVE, January 2002 - July 2004
Friday, July 30, 2004
Seventeenth Week in Ordinary time
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Thursday, July 29, 2004
Feast of St. Martha
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Seventeenth Week in Ordinary time
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Friday, July 23, 2004
Sixteenth Week in Ordinary time
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Sixteenth Week in Ordinary time
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Friday, July 16, 2004
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
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Thursday, July 15, 2004
Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Memorial of Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Thursday,
July 1, 2004
Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Wednesday,
June 30, 2004
Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Tuesday,
June 29, 2004
Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Wednesday,
June 23, 2004
Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
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Tuesday,
June 22, 2004
Feast of St. Thomas Moore and John Fisher
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Saturday,
March 13, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
The Gospel of the Prodigal Son has countless aspects to meditate. One
is the way the older brother reacts to his father's celebrating the
return of the prodigal son. He's upset. There is reasonableness in this
reaction from the point of view of strict justice, but family—the
Christian family—is not based on justice alone. (continued...)
Friday,
March 12, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
The first reading at today's Mass is the story of how the brothers of
Joseph, one of the twelve sons of Israel, sell him into slavery after
nearly murdering him. The motive for murder is their jealousy over the
fact that Joseph was Israel's most beloved son of twelve. (continued...)
Thursday,
March 11, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
"More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy;
who can understand it? I, the Lord, alone probe the mind and test the
heart, to reward everyone according to his ways, according to the merit
of his deeds." (continued...)
Wednesday,
March 10, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
Jesus predicts his Passion and Death and the Church has us recall the
prophet Jeremiah. "The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem
said, ‘Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah.'"
The plot is contrived by carefully noting Jeremiah's words to see how
he might be destroyed "by his own tongue." How striking
it is that the same plot and the same protagonists are involved as in
the time of Jesus. (continued...)
Tuesday,
March 9, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself
will be exalted. As in yesterday's readings, the leitmotif today is
about the need for humility. In fact, throughout this week we are reminded
every day about the consequences of pride-especially of the Pharisees
and scribes of Israel-and the humility of Jesus who gives himself up
for us. (continued...)
Monday,
March 8, 2004 - Second Week of Lent
Daniel makes an act of contrition for all the people of Judah and Israel.
In the responsorial psalm we ask God to remember not our iniquities.
If we examine our conscience carefully, we see that over the years we
have gone against God and often justified it by pretending that we did
not really know better and that we had the right intention. (continued...)
Thursday,
March 4, 2004 - First Week of Lent
The story of Esther is worthwhile reading. Today's passage from the
Book of Esther is about her recourse to prayer to prepare for a major
challenge in her life. She was queen, beautiful, influential, but still
relied on prayer and fasting to do what her people needed her to do:
no less than to save them from annihilation. The reading today offers
us her prayer, but it is helpful to understand the circumstances. (continued...)
Wednesday,
March 3, 2004 - First Week of Lent
Forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed. God instructs Jonah to announce
this. When the people hear it, they understand why this is going to
happen. It is due to their wickedness. Each recognizes that he must
turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in his hand. The
people of Nineveh repent, do penance. God relents. (continued...)
Tuesday,
March 2, 2004 - First Week of Lent
Right before this instruction to forgive, Jesus teaches his disciples
how to pray: Our Father, who art in heaven?" The world suffers from
an epidemic of anger. We are angry-rightly so-when we have experienced
injustice. But we have a hard time forgiving the person who inflicted
the injustice and hurt us, or hurt someone we love. (continued...)
Monday,
May 19, 2003 - Fifth Week of Easter
Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory. (Ps 115:1) In today's
first reading after Paul and Barnabas cure the crippled man, lame from
birth, the priest of Zeus and the people of Lystra want to offer sacrifices
to them as Gods. Paul and Barnabas insist to the crippled man that they
share the same nature as him, human nature. (continued...)
Tuesday,
May 20, 2003 -Fifth Week of Easter
Yesterday Paul and Barnabas were looked upon as gods by the people of
Lystra, who prepared to offer them sacrifices for curing a crippled
man. Today they are attacked, stoned, and Paul is left for dead outside
the city. What a difference a day makes! (continued...)
Tuesday,
April 1, 2003
In today's first reading from the book of Ezekiel, the prophet
speaks of water flowing from the temple. (continued...)
Friday,
March 21, 2003
The first reading from the Book of Genesis tells the story of Joseph,
and it?s a very powerful story. (continued...)
Thursday,
March 20, 2003
The rich man in today's Gospel is suffering torment in the flames
because of the evil he has done in his life. (continued...)
Tuesday,
February 4, 2003
We see in the first reading of today's mass how Jesus, the writer of
the letter to the Hebrews says, is the leader and the perfector of faith.
(continued...)
Monday,
February 3, 2003 - Memorial of St. Blasé
In today's gospel, it is almost frightening to see this man who is in
the tombs possesed by demons and completely out of his mind, totally
crying out and out of control. (continued...)
Friday,
January 31, 2003 - Memorial of John Bosco
In today's first reading in the Letter to the Hebrews, the writer reminds
us how the Hebrews had to endure a great contest of suffering. (continued...)
Thursday,
January 30, 2003
In the responsorial psalm today, we pray, "Lord, this is the people
that longs to see your face". It refers to us. We long to see the
face of God. (continued...)
Wednesday,
January 29, 2003
In today's Gospel, our Lord not only recounts the elaborate parable
about the sower, but then explains it afterwards. (continued...)
Tuesday,
January 28, 2002
We are celebrating the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor
of the church. (continued...)
Writings
On
the 30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Today is the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, which closes the Unity
Octave that the Church celebrates each year. We unite our prayers to
those of Jesus in the upper room the night before he died, that all
may be one. (continued...)
The
Soul of Business: Creation, Personal Development, and Profit
Many questions have been raised lately about how employers can do a
better job of communicating a sense of ethics to their employees. The
answer is deceptively simple: no company can successfully communicate
a system of ethics to anyone unless it has such a system already in
place. (continued...)
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