So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’” –Luke 17:10– It was August of 1969. There she stood on our front doorstep, a wide-eyed, impossibly thin teenager, speaking
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“For with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.” –Luke 6:38– Concerning the story I am about to relate, permit me to use the words of Father Peter Lonergan in The Quiet Man: “Well, I can’t say it’s true, and I won’t say it’s not.” Several years
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Isn’t it amazing how many jokes there are about the hardships of married life? We’ve all heard them. Here, for example, are only four: I never knew what bliss was until I got married, and now it’s too late. My wife and I were perfectly happy for thirty years.
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A Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Have you fitted a curb to the Pleiades, or loosened the bonds of Orion? Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or guide the Bear with its train? –Job 38:31-32– Jesus said, “Whoever finds his life
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A Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong
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