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Finding our vocation: a reflection on this Sunday’s Mass readings
February 07, 2019
Fifth Sunday of the Year Is 6:1-8; 1 Cor 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11 (Year C) In the language of the secular world, the word “vocation” refers to a personal choice. In a very loose sense, it is used to describe the life choices that we make and the careers we choose to follow. Throughout the Scriptures,
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January 31, 2019
Fourth Sunday of the Year Jer 1:4-5 & 17-19; 1 Cor 12:31 – 13:13; Lk 4:21-30 (Year C) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you; I have appointed you as prophet to the nations.” The prophet Jeremiah’s account of his calling follows a familiar
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January 24, 2019
Third Sunday of the Year Neh 8:2-6 & 8-10; 1 Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4 & 4:14-21 (Year C) ‘The Law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul. The precepts of the Lord are right, they gladden the heart. The command of the Lord is clear, it gives light to the eyes.” The responsorial
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January 17, 2019
Second Sunday of the Year Is 62:1-5; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-11 (Year C) “About Zion I will not be silent … No longer are you to be named ‘Forsaken’, nor your land ‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called ‘My Delight’ and your land ‘The Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight in you, and your
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January 10, 2019
The Baptism of the Lord Is 42:1-4 & 6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Lk 3:15-16 & 21-22 (Year C) “Now, while Jesus after his own baptism was at prayer, heaven opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily shape, like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the beloved; my
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January 03, 2019
The Epiphany of the Lord Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3 & 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 (Year C) The celebration of the Epiphany is, in many ways, a joyful meditation on the meaning of Christ’s birth. Luke concluded his account of the Nativity with the observation that “Mary treasured these things and pondered them in her heart.” In
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December 20, 2018
The Christmas story, as related in the Gospels, furnishes the background for memories that reach back to childhood. Few of us, either as children or admiring parents, can ever forget the Christmas Nativity plays that created such excitement in our earliest years at school. Frequently they are remembered as much for what went wrong as
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December 13, 2018
Third Sunday of Advent Zeph 3:14-18; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 (Year C)  ”Truly, God is my salvation; I trust, I shall not fear. For the Lord is my strength, my song, he became my saviour. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.” The responsorial psalm articulates the mounting joy with which
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December 06, 2018
The Second Sunday of Advent Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:3-6 & 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 (Year C) Israel’s long history was inextricably intertwined with the desert wilderness that hemmed her southern and eastern boundaries. The long journey from Egyptian enslavement to the freedom of the Promised Land had been spent in the wilderness. Here the people had
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November 29, 2018
First Sunday of Advent Jer 33:14-16; 1 Thess 3:12 – 4:2; Lk 21:25-28 (Year C) The season of Advent belongs to everyone who believes that the best, both for ourselves and the world entrusted to us, is yet to come. The sure hope that Advent proclaims is rooted in Christ and his power to save.
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November 22, 2018
Christ the King Dn 7:13-14; Rev 1:5-8; Jn 18:33-37 (Year B) The prayer at Mass for the solemnity of Christ the King spans our relationship with God from its beginning in Creation to its ultimate conclusion with Christ’s Second Coming as Lord and King. It is a prayer full of hope, turning to the Father who,
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November 15, 2018
The 33rd Sunday of the Year Daniel 12:1-13; Hebrews 10:11-14 & 18; Mark 13:24-32 (Year B) “At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who mounts guard over his people. There is going to be a time of great distress unparalleled since the nations first came into existence. When that time comes, your
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