“The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ Jesus said to them in reply, ‘Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.’” I suppose there [...]
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Listen to the Podcast The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and [...]
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Listen to the Podcast. “Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night.” It’s kind of a paradox, this Christian faith of [...]
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Listen to the Podcast. “Remember, you are dust, and to dust you will return.” This is one of the formulas used for the imposition of ashes today. Maybe we should include it as part of our daily prayers the other 364 days of the year. It’s a sobering reminder of the reality of this life. [...]
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Listen to the Podcast. You have to love Saint James. He always lays it on the line in simple words that we can all understand. In today’s first reading he says, “No one experiencing temptation should say,’I am being tempted by God’; for God is not subject to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts [...]
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