Category: lessthan7
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Retvrn!
How can you return to your God if you’re not yourself?
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Crazy 4 Jesus
What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Who (or what) is dying on your cross?
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What is IS?
What is the value of a human being? Of what is he made that he costs so little and so much?
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Who Chose Who?
Oil and water never mix. What about the Gentiles and the Chosen?
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All Things?
When things are good, the will of God seems pretty awesome. How can we talk about the will of God around a dumpster fire like we have now?
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Wondrous Type
In the process of meditation literature, to be “fulfilled” is not to draw a 1:1 ratio between the accidents of a prediction and their “coming true”. Rather it’s to draw, as it were, a 1:10 ratio between the accidents of the prediction and the new, more-full way they are manifested.
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Asleep in the Light
How do we balance the idea of “doig good for all” with the secular welfare state and the need to just fiscally support people?
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The Medium is the Message
The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross (14 Sept 23) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 TAKE A LOOK AT THE various English translations of 1 Corinthians 1:18. Most of…
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A New House
The Readings for Dedication of the Church of the Anastasis in Jerusalem (13 Sept 23) Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. Hebrews 3:3 THIS IS ONE OF Those arguments that gets lost in translation. Because –…
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Breaking Bad
The Readings for 16th Tuesday after Pentecost (xii.IX.2023) For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. Galatians 5:13 SAUL or, to use his Latin name, Paul (it was not, like Abraham, changed by God) is telling…
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Carpenters?
The Readings for 15th Tuesday after Pentecost (5 Sept) Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? Matthew 22:11 FROM THE FOLKS WHO DO “The Jesus Seminar” I’ve head they Craftsmen – that is men who…
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The True Story of Sleeping Beauty
The Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary I wrote this in 2018. Reposting for the feast (which will be on Monday). LET ME TELL YOU A love story. This is a real love story, not a romance, such as we pass off today as love; nor is it a “chick flick” sort…
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Life Just Keeps Coming
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 19th Sunday, Tempus per Annum Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and precede him to the other side. Matthew 14:22 BY WAY OF DISCUSSING THIS GOSPEL, let me link back to the story we heard on Wednesday in the first reading from the Book of Numbers: sending the…
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Final Cause
Readings for Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola17th Monday After Pentecost A day late, but I keep rewriting… Only the one who has sinned against me will I blot out of my book. Exodus 32:33 WHY DID GOD MAKE ME? It’s the first thing the Baltimore Catechism offers us. God made me to know Him,…
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Swords and Pieces
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum “I have come to bring not peace but the sword.” Matthew 10:34 THIS GOSPEL CAN BE Unnerving – especially if you’re used to “Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild” or if you want to imagine that. He’s not. He wasn’t. He won’t be. Nevertheless, this Gospel…
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