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Thomas…the first 12 stepper

The Risen one carries in His risen body the wounds of His crucifixion which leads to His death. He now invites Thomas to enter His wounds and in doing so Thomas, the denier, is brought to faith and wonder. He then utters the words that are repeated again and again by believers down through the […]

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“Come Rest In Me”

We are given each year, Forty days to prepare ourselves to be drawn anew, into the Pascal Mystery. Each year has to be a new experience as we are made ever renewed by The Same Power that raised the historical Jesus from the dead to become The Christ, The Risen Lord. This newness becoming is […]

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The Shalom of God, incarnated for us, dead-enders…Part 2

A Rabbi from Texas has drawn the following distinctions between Shalom and peace:One can dictate peace; shalom is a mutual agreement. Peace is a temporary pact; shalom is a permanent agreement. One can make a peace treaty: shalom is the condition of peace.Peace can be negative, the absence of commotion: shalom is positive, the presence […]

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The Shalom of God, incarnated for us, dead-enders

This second Sunday after Easter places before us a smorgasbord of spiritual realities to nourish, strengthen, console, and challenges us. There is not one sermon, blog or book that can ever adequately convey all that is both “hidden and revealed” in this Gospel. All I can do within the limitations of my vocabulary is present […]

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The Paschal Mystery continued…

“After Jesus died what happened next?” is a favorite question for me to ask. The inevitable answer, “He rose.” Resurrection did happen but not right away. First He was buried. He spent three days in the tomb. It was only after those three days in the tomb that He was resurrected. How many sermons ever […]

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The Paschal Mystery

“O God, You have heard the cry of my heart because it was You God, who cried out within me.” This is one of my favorite quotes from Thomas Merton. How wonderfully consoling are those words. WE never suffer alone. We may and think so, but our reflective understanding of what it means to be […]

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Good Friday

The Easter Triduum, which we have now been called to enter has been described in many ways by so many preachers, teachers and authors. These three days are one continuous celebration of The Paschal Mystery. The celebration begins with the sign of the cross on Holy Thursday. (This sign marks the beginning of all Catholic […]

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Holy Week

This week Holy Week is when the rubber really hits the road, for us who follow in the footsteps of Jesus, The Christ, The God-man from Galilee. Where He has gone, we are to follow. It is gut check time. It is when we put on our grown up pants and get honest. NOT totally […]

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A Boring Life???

Guilt, anger, and resentment are really heavy burdens for us to haul around. Just think of all the energy it takes to control, deny, stifle these so, so human, emotions within ourselves. On the other hand, how free we feel, how energized we feel, when we give ourselves the freedom to feel, experience, express and […]

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Individual Thorn part 2

Rousseau said, “Man was born free and everywhere I look I see him chained.” Resentment is a destroyer of individual lives and family ties. We are told what hurts a relationship is not what is on the table, it is under the table. Resentment not dealt with grows and festers over the years. It infects, […]

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