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The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran: The First Church of Christendom, and a Universal Call to Holiness
Brothers and sisters, you are God’s building. ... For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. (1 Cor 3:9, 17)
November 9th, just before commemoration of Pope Leo the Great, we celebrate the anniversary...
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Twenty-Third Sunday and the Wisdom of the Cross
So you, O son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel’ (Ez. 33:7).
This mission given by the Lord God to the Prophet Ezekiel is in turn, the task of...
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Twenty-First Sunday: Who is Christ?
Who do people say that the Son of Man is’? (Mt. 16:16)
‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Mt. 16:16). St. Peter’s definitive response to Our Lord’s question is the foundation...
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Twentieth Sunday: Prayer and Tradition
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is. 56: 7).
In any given region or country, a common language is a source of unity. You may be familiar with...
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19th Sunday and Finding the Wisdom of the Cross
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh (Rom 9: 3).
The epistle reading of the...
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The Strength of the Transfiguration
So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place (2 Pet. 1:18).
Today we celebrate the glorious Feast...
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Seventeenth Sunday: Choosing the Highest Good
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all he had and bought it (Mt. 13:45-46). ⧾
All...
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Sixteenth Sunday: Weeding Out the Mystery of Iniquity
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom (Mt. 13:37-38).
Our Lord spoke in parables to...
