A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A [The man born blind] replied, “The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went there and washed and was able to see.” –John 9:11– In the eighth
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If then any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. –2 Corinthians 5:17– I picked up the bud vase from Mary’s kitchen table and inspected the beautiful artificial roses it contained. “Can you guess what those roses are made of?” Mary asked. “Silk?” “No.”
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At the very beginning of the Bible, in the eleventh chapter of Genesis, we have this description of the Tower of Babel: While men were migrating eastward, they discovered a valley in the land of Sennaar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks
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