February 18, 2018 – 1st Sunday in Lent Year B Call to repentance: Reform your lives, this is the time of fulfillment. “This is the time of fulfillment.” The call to repentance, issued at the start of Lent, is a call to respond to something that has already happened. The promise of the covenant after the…
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February 11, 2018 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B “I do will it. Be made clean.” (Mark 1:40-45) Jesus healed the lepers, who were outcasts to their community, as the first reading makes clear. The healing demonstrates two key lessons that relate to the Church’s stand on life. First, Jesus is always on the…
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February 4, 2018 – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B All life belongs to God… Jesus loved the poor, the weak, the sick, and the demon-possessed. These individuals, and those who cared for them, knew that they could come to Jesus to find what they needed. What they needed, however, was often much more than…
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January 28, 2018 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Teaching the Word of God is teaching with authority. The Gospel and First Reading for this Sunday raise the issue of the authority of those who speak the Word of God. Jesus taught with authority because he is the Word of God. The prophets taught…
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