faith
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The readings that the Catholic Church uses for Sunday Mass and the ones it chooses for daily Mass don’t intentionally line up; the daily readings generally work slowly through a Gospel and another book of the Bible, while the ones on Sunday will work through a Gospel and another book of the New Testament, with…
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Get out of the way. There’s a little story in Mark (10:46-52, this Sunday’s Gospel for you Catholics) about the healing of a blind man named Bartimaeus. It’s a pretty straightforward story that only takes a couple of verses, but even a small story like this has details worth reflecting on. Jesus and a crowd…
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In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, not only of my home state of Florida, but a lot of the southeastern United States, I don’t have a lot to offer that ties what we’ve been through into a neat little bow. In fact, there’s a bit of a through line in the essays of Abandoning…
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Who do you look like? They say couples that have been together for a long time start to look like each other. I don’t know if that’s true. But I do know that, if not in physical ways, it’s part of human nature that we start to resemble the people we focus our attention on,…
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What would Jesus do? I posted something on Facebook about the brouhaha stemming from the Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies spectacle including a performance that was interpreted as a drag-queen parody of the Last Supper, but I want to come back to this and take a different approach. As seems to happen with everything these days,…
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Asking the right question is a gift, both for the asker and the recipient. I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT a little – mostly for fun, a little for work – and I’ve noticed that there’s an art to asking it the right question. A lot of times, it takes me 3-4 rounds of follow-up…
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“Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” – I John 3:2 What do you say to the dying? A friend of mine asked me something along…
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