Episodes
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
"Come to the Feast" - A Reflection for The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
Dear Friends,
In a world starving for fulfillment, Jesus sets a table of love every day. Yet the bread of life is passed over by so many who seek the latest confection to fill their emptiness. In this gospel, Jesus invites us to his feast. His basket of grace is bottomless. Come to him as God and Savior and you will never go away hungry.
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Saturday Jul 21, 2018
Saturday Jul 21, 2018
Dear Friends,
Picture this: It's February 1964. Traffic in Mid-town Manhattan is an epic nightmare. Police are manning the barricades. And an army of teenagers sweeps right past them to storm the Plaza Hotel. The Beatles have come to town and Manhattan has gone wild. Dizzy from his riotous reception, John Lennon boasts: "We're more popular than Jesus."
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Saturday Jul 14, 2018
"Deliver Us from Evil" - A Reflection for The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
Dear Friends,
This week's gospel is perhaps the starkest exposition of pure evil in the entire New Testament. As such it seems far out of step with our times. We have come to shroud evil in elaborate scenarios of psychological cause and effect. Much of this theory is soundly reasoned, amply documented and clinically valid. But much of it has proven to be fantasy-based, psycho-babble.
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Saturday Jul 07, 2018
Saturday Jul 07, 2018
Dear Friends,
For three and a half years, Jesus continually taught and preached. He performed wonders and drew people to him. Obviously, these gospels are not a daily diary of his entire ministry. They are not a transcript of his every word. Think of them as a highlight reel, capturing the essence of the Good News, the platform of the New Covenant, the record of our redemption. Yet with so much ground to cover in sixteen chapters, why does Mark include this account of Christ’s rejection by friends and neighbors? What is Jesus telling us? What should we learn from this gospel?
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