Entries for January 2022

Last week’s corner set up our Gospel this weekend very nicely for the fourth Sunday of Ordinary time.  If you haven’t had a chance, go back and read the corner from last week because it gives context to our Gospel today. Jesus has begun his public ministry in the Gospel of Luke a...

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Our first reading this weekend is vital to us understanding all of our scriptural readings in this, the third Sunday of Ordinary Time.  It comes to us from the book of Nehemiah and occurs sometime in the 5th or 6th century B.C.  The Israelite people have been conquered in 587 B.C. and exil...

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Christmas has now come to an end and we enter into “Ordinary Time”.  Ordinary time.  What feels ordinary today?  I would like to submit that almost nothing feels ordinary to us, to the way of life we lived 2 years ago.  We should rename this season of the Church &ldqu...

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Happy Sunday!  I read this article the other day and thought it looks at the Baptism of Our Lord in a slightly different light.  You can almost feel the excitement of the author: Today we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord, which marks the official end of the Christmas season. It’s...

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