A Homily for the First Sunday of Lent Temptations are often very profitable to us, even though they can be troubling and painful; for in them we are humbled, purified, and instructed. –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter 13, § 2– I am old enough
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Garrison Keillor and his Hopeful Gospel Quartet perform a wonderful song entitled, Life Is a Ballgame. Here are some of the lyrics: Life is a ballgame Bein’ played each day. Life is a ballgame Everybody can play. You know, Jesus standing at the home plate He’s awaitin’ for you there.
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“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent
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Turning round, Peter saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who, at the supper, had leaned back upon his breast and said, “Lord, who is it that will betray thee?” Peter therefore, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, and what of this man?” Jesus said to him,
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