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In this month of November, we are reminded often of the end and to keep our lives in order so that at all times we can be ready. We do this in preparation for the end of the Church year and also so we can live the reality of life, that is, that death will come to all. That does not sound super cheery does it to think of your end? It seems like we try hard not to have to face death. We don’t want t...
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One Sunday, while I was hearing confessions before Mass and the bishop was in the sacristy getting ready, I heard a voice over the PA system. I recognized the voice as one of the regular Catholics. He was not a reader but he started talking about how the Catholic Church had deceived him all these years and how the Church was wrong, saying, “Look it says right here in the Bible, ‘call no man your f...
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What would our day look like if we started it by making an intentional effort to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind and then our neighbour as ourselves. I mean, I am sure if you looked at my life, and the lives of many of us here, we would not think those were commandments but perhaps suggestions. It is interesting to me anyways that these are command...
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Today in the Gospel, we witness Divine intellect against the demonic intellect. The trap that the Pharisees and Herodians set is one of perfection. If Jesus answers not to pay the Romans He would be arrested for sedition, hence the purpose of the Herodians being there. Who were the Herodians? They were from King Herod and they were there to give the evidence of the sedition. If Jesus answered to p...
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Before I begin, I want to ask some questions and you can think about them, but I will answer them to start things off. Why a wedding feast that the King invited his people to? Why not a birthday party or a beauty pageant or a winter solstice party? And secondly, what is up with that poor guy at the end of the Gospel who got invited off the street and yet is expected to be wearing a wedding garment...
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My brothers and sisters, judge this case for me. Our Father has built this entire universe for the sole purpose of showing us His love, to show us how much He loves us. He created it in great detail and made it all work. He even made beautiful things that no one perhaps may see but yet He put them there in case we might stumble upon them. He made the world complex and amazing, everything having gr...
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I don’t know if you were shocked by today’s Gospel, but I know I was. Tax collectors and prostitutes will enter heaven ahead of the chief priests and elders of the day. I know sometimes when I read the Bible, I sort of read it without dirt, for example imagining the prostitute would be a nice woman who did charitable works and was just mistaken. No, I don’t think that is what Jesus was talking abo...
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In today’s Gospel, we see how challenging it is not to compare ourselves to others, and, secondly, how hard it is not to determine our worth from money. How much pain happens in our lives because we try to find our worth in others and not in God. Look at how we pick on ourselves day and night because we are not like others - as beautiful, as rich, as healthy, as good at sports or singing or speaki...
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Today we have some very serious talk about debts and what we owe to God. In today’s Gospel, we have two men. One owes one hundred days wages and the other owes one hundred million days wages. That amounts to a difference of 274,000 years of wages, a substantial difference. True, losing a hundred days of wages would be a substantial amount of money for most of us, but we probably would survive and ...
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