32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection by Katherine White

Posted November 5th, 2019 by Joanna Krynski
      Visualize yourself giving attention to someone’s wrongly placed ignorance. They asked you a variety of purposely-insulting statements disguise as questions with predetermined answers. Questions like, “Why do you worship Mary?” while emphasizing that Catholics are only supposed to worship one God. It can be mentally exhausting; during strenuous thinking, trying to use your knowledge to come up with this concoction of deliberate and heartfelt answers while ignoring the unwanted truth.
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection by Michael Bayer

Posted October 30th, 2019 in
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 by Joanna Krynski
The Gospel of Luke provides a study in contrasts between those who fundamentally get what the message of Jesus is about—and those who don’t. More often than not, it is the most knowledgeable and pious figures who are on the wrong side of that equation. And with unsettling frequency, it is also Jesus’ own apostles who fail to comprehend what Jesus’ words and actions truly mean.
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection by Fr. Rex Pillai

Posted October 25th, 2019 in
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 by Joanna Krynski
Mahatma Gandhi of India, before he led his country in its independence struggle, was a successful lawyer in South Africa. He became well aware of the injustice that was prevalent in that country. He encouraged the Indian community there to offer passive resistance to the government policy of discrimination. His power to resist racial segregation was based on his immense moral and spiritual authority. One incident which impressed itself on his mind was when he was obliged to step into the gutter so that a group of white passers-by would not be contaminated.
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Bulletin Reflection by Paul Nicholson

Posted October 17th, 2019 in
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 by Joanna Krynski
For the last quarter century “The Simpsons” has been an American TV staple in the diet of broadcast media. Homer and Marge Simpson, with their three children, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, go about their ordinary lives in Springfield middle-America, encountering the mundane and the absurd, much to our amusement and discomfort. Bart and Lisa provide plenty of laughter as they spar with each other or outwit their peers in the neighborhood and at school. They are particularly savvy when dealing with their father.
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Bulletin Reflection by Gabriel Mayhugh

Posted October 11th, 2019 in
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 by Joanna Krynski
In today’s Gospel, Jesus heals ten lepers and shows us that salvation flows from East to West and is open to all. Then, one of the lepers returns to give thanks to Jesus. This story has much to teach us. First, to help us recognize the lepers among us. And second, to teach us the importance of giving thanks.     
 
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Bulletin Reflection by Deacon Tim Sullivan

Posted October 3rd, 2019 by Kaitlin Lounsberry
    Today’s readings deal with our human condition and how we make choices.  In the first reading from the Book of Wisdom we are presented with the problem of how can we know God’s counsel or what God intends.  We are burdened down by earthly things, day to day living and those things which cloud our relationship with God.  We have to make our choices based on help from God.  In the Gospel reading Jesus tells us that to be his disciple we must reject family, riches and the things of this world, take up our cross and follow his way.  
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