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In Luke 21 (which is the Gospel for the first week of Advent this year), Jesus warns his followers about a final judgment day, saying, “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.” Of course,…
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I’m a work in progress when it comes to caring for creation, but I’m trying to notice the ways in which the Bible includes nature in God’s love story. This Sunday, the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, is mostly about the blind seeing and the deaf hearing. Isaiah 35 talks about it, Psalm 146 talks…
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It’s not a buffet. The readings for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (which is this Sunday, Sept. 1) all point to what it means to be just, but they’re each a little more complicated than they might appear. The Old Testament is from the Book of Deuteronomy, as Moses talks up God’s Law for…
Reading Francis 