“I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.” Today’s Gospel is the same one we read just Friday, the Feast of the Sacred Heart. I mention this only because it occurred [...]
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Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you do not have life within you. A big Gospel for a Friday, don’t you think? This is where Jesus separates the men from the boys, so to speak. We’ve read The Book and we know how it ends. But for [...]
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Today we remember Saint John Christostom. Saint John lived in the late 300s and early 400s, around the time of Saint Patrick. You may not be familiar with him, but he and I have a running conversation. He’s the patron Saint of preachers, and I speak to him often, especially when I’m getting ready to [...]
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Listen to the Podcast The Gospel for today is the story of the loaves and the fishes. Of course this famous story is the precursor of the Eucharist. Jesus fed the crowd with a small amount of food with enough left over for each of the disciples to have a wicker basket full of the [...]
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Listen to the podcast. It’s only natural to think of children in these Advent days. For one thing, we’re all waiting for the coming of a child. No, not just a child: the child. The Son of God. That’s what Advent is all about. It’s also a special time for all children. We see the [...]
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