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“Let us not grow tired of uprooting evil from our lives. May the corporal fasting to which Lent calls us fortify our spirit for the battle against sin. Let us not grow tired...
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the whole world on fire." (St. Catherine of Sienna) We are made in the image and likeness of God. Be fully...
“We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us." (St. Theresa of Avila) Jesus told us that he, the Father and...
Homily: Eight Sunday Year C Reading 1: One’s speech and words tell us much about a person, his character, his values, his motives and his true self. One uses a sieve or...
"He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.” (St Faustina)As we are...
Eighth Sunday Gospel C Jesus told his disciples a parable, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? This teaching of Jesus is in the...
“God beholds you individually, whoever you are. God calls you by name! God sees you and understands you. God made you and God knows what is in you, all your personal feelings and...
“And so, without board or lodging, St. Paul traveled from place to place, destitute, naked, exhausted by hunger and thirst. When men saw him in captivity, flogged, shipwrecked, led about in chains, they...
"The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so...
"If anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body also. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us,...
Homily: Seventh Sunday Year C Reading 1: Background. God had David anointed. Saul was jealous of David’s popularity with the people. He feared that David would try to overthrow him as King. David...
" If we lose the thread of the spiritual life, if a thousand problems and thoughts assail us, let us heed Paul’s advice. Let us place ourselves in front of Christ Crucified, let us begin...
Seventh Sunday Gospel CJesus said to his disciples: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who...
I came across a quote from Pope Francis that I would like to share with you. It is about Jesus praying for us at the Last Supper and on the cross. Pope Francis...
As we begin to approach Lent, it is good to pray, asking God how does he want us to enter into this holy season. If our Lent in the past has been focused...
If we would treat others the way God treats us, our life would be different. Unfortunately too often, that is not the case. We cry out to God for mercy and forgiveness, but...
What is prayer? It is commonly held to be a conversation. In a conversation there are always an "I" and a "Thou" or "you." In this case the "Thou" is with a capital...
Homily Sixth Sunday Year C Trust in God
By spiritaflame 10:53 AMHomily Sixth Sunday Year C Reading 1: Jeremiah has been sent to call the people of Israel back to the Lord. Externally, they were going through the motions, but internally and relationally...
"One of the essential conditions of interior freedom is the ability to live in the present moment. For one thing, it is only then that we can exercise freedom. We have no hold...
Sixth Sunday Gospel CJesus came down with the twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all...
“Every day the boat of our life leaves the shores of our home to go out into the sea of daily activities; every day we try to ‘fish in deep water,’ to cultivate...
Jesus recognized the human experience of loneliness. He experienced it on the cross, when he felt the weight of the sins of the world and the sense of abandonment. In that moment, he...
I hope that we realize how blessed we are and learn to express our gratitude to God each day. Unfortunately, some of us tend to take our blessings for granted. How often in...
"Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your...
Homily Fifth Sunday Year C The call
By spiritaflame 9:45 AMHomily Fifth Sunday Year C Reading 1: Last Sunday we heard the call of Jeremiah to be a prophet. In today’s readings we heard the call of Isaiah, Paul and Peter. Like...
St. John tells us that God pitched his tent among us, when he took on our flesh to live with us. Jesus became one like us in all things but sin, so that...
Fifth Sunday Ordinary Gospel CWhile the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside...
"Humility, in itself, in its most perfect state, does not consist in being little or feeling little but in making oneself little." (Raniero Cantalamessa)Humility is not how others see us or how others...
