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1st Sunday in Lent: Willing obedience
After Jesus was baptized, the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan (Mk 1:12).
On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of...
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6th Sunday: Be made clean!
Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean! (Mk 1:41)
This Sunday’s Gospel reading, in continuation with last Sunday’s text, describes another...
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5th Sunday: Poverty, humility, service.
I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor 9:23).
Last Sunday, in a presentation given at the end of Mass, you were asked...
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4th Sunday: Listen to the voice of the Lord
They were astounded at his teaching for he taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes (Mk 1:21).
As we commemorate the mysteries of our Lord’s public life and ministry, the Gospel text of...
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Here is the Lamb of God
Look, here is the Lamb of God. (Jn 1:35)
This declaration made by John the Baptist and which we hear before the reception of Holy Communion at every Mass is a succinct summary of the...
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Behold the true Jordan
I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who...
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2nd Sunday of Advent: The call to conversion
John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins (Mk 1:4).
The Gospel of the Mass on this second Sunday of Advent introduces us to John the Baptist,...
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First Sunday of Advent: Sacred Liturgy
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand (Is 64:8).
The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a...
