| Honor & Success: Overcoming Blindness |
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| Friday, September 10, 2010 4:22 PM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:91010_42833_0.jpg] Reading 1 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27 Brothers and sisters: If I preach the Gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it! If I do so willingly, I have |
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| School Begins - Time is on our side |
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| Monday, August 30, 2010 9:29 AM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:83010_93414_0.jpg] August 30, 2010 Proverbs 8:22-31 "The LORD begot me, the first-born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth. When there were no depths |
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| The Eighth Grade Mass |
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| Saturday, May 29, 2010 7:37 AM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:53010_74541_0.jpg] Reading 1 Jude 17:20b-25 Beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. Build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God and |
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| Stop Fishing - Last School Mass |
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| Friday, May 21, 2010 11:47 AM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:52110_115753_0.jpg] Gospel Jn 21:15-19 After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lo |
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| Priory Class Rings |
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| Friday, April 16, 2010 10:38 AM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:41610_104237_0.jpg] April 16, 2010 Friday of the Second Week of Easter Reading 1 Acts 5:34-42 A Pharisee in the Sanhedrin named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, respected by all the people, stood up, ordered the Apostles to be put outside |
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| Scandals |
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| Monday, April 12, 2010 8:40 PM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:41210_84752_0.jpg] Acts 4:23-31 After their release Peter and John went back to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them. And when they heard it, they raised their voices to God with one accord and said, |
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| Wednesday in Holy Week |
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| Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:00 AM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:41210_90026_0.png] The critical moments of the Triduum, for which we have been preparing all Lent, are almost upon us. And in today’s Gospel the villain in the drama appears exposed, although we had the foreshadowing two days ago when he c |
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| Sibling Rivalry |
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| Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:50 PM -0500 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_125334_0.jpg] March 14, 2010 Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading I Jos 5:9a, 10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jerich |
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| | God Calling | | | | | Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:47 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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Jan 16
Gospel Mk 2:13-17
Jesus went out along the sea.
All the crowd came to him and he taught them.
As he passed by, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus,
sitting at the customs post.
Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
And he got up and followed Jesus.
While he was at table in his house,
many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples;
for there were many who followed him.
Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners
and tax collectors and said to his disciples,
“Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus heard this and said to them,
“Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”
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The first reading today relates the story of the call of Saul; The reading is a compressed version of a more complicated story of a complicated call full of ceremony.
Jesus' call of Matthew the tax collector is iconic of his call of the other apostles; it is less complicated but just as dramatic as the call of Saul.
In both cases, these men are going about their daily business, Matthew extorting taxes from his fellow citizens and Saul chasing after livestock, undoubtedly not the first time he’d had to do that.
And the God intervenes, calls them away from their usual daily routines. That is so like God. He doesn’t like routines, the daily usual stuff.
God was perfect in Himself, with harmonious communal relationships among his 3 persons. Then he created the universe; never did anything ever upset a nice routine more than that. It’s been trouble for God ever since.
And trouble for human beings. God is trouble…all these inhuman expectations of us…loving neighbors, actually strangers even, just as much as we love ourselves, taking time out of our rest and recreation to worship, trying to sing questionable hymns and antiphons and listening to questionable homilies. Human beings question everything. No lying, cheating, stealing, cutting corners and so on. These restrictions really hamper the actualization of our full potential in this world in which we have to live.
And so God makes trouble for Saul and Matthew and the other apostles, out of no where he comes and tells them to drop it all. In an instant life is changed. But life is like that.
In many an instant life is changed.
A young man sees or meets the young woman he is destined to marry in a parking lot , or on the internet, and his life is forever changed. Years later, one of them drops dead from a heart attack. Life for both is forever changed.
O A car accident, winning the lottery,
O the military chaplain showing up at a parents door with bad news,
O a wife telling her husband they are having a baby,
O parents breaking the news to their children that they are divorcing.
On an ordinary Tuesday morning, of the thousands of people taking airline flights to thousands of destinations, a few hundred unknowingly get on three planes that have changed the life of this world.
St. Augustine hears a child’s voice say “Tolle et Lege.”
St. Gregory the Great happens upon some English slave boys in the marketplace.
We are called in the events of our daily lives to respond to the sudden calls and interventions of God. Jesus tells his critics “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.” I’m here for the sinners.
If we think we are well, we will not likely answer these calls or welcome Gods intervention. If we know, and truly realize our sickness, we will always be on the lookout and be ready for a cure. And if the cures for our spiritual illness were obvious to us, we’d have long ago fixed things ourselves.
But it is God who knows, Jesus Christ who is the physician, The Holy Spirit who is the medicine.
May our participation in this mass and sacrament keep us from self righteousness. May we always recognize or sinfulness and be welcoming of the grace-filled opportunities given us by God’s sudden interventions in our own lives. He is always calling us to be more than we are. He is calling us to come closer to Himself.
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| So close....Spring Break |
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| Friday, March 12, 2010 12:45 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_124850_0.jpg] March 12, 2010 Friday of the Third Week of Lent Reading I Hos 14:2-10 Thus says the LORD: Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt. Take with you words, and return to the LORD; Say |
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| Another Birthday ! |
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| Monday, March 1, 2010 11:46 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_114936_0.jpg] Gospel Lk 6:36-38 Jesus said to his disciples: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgive |
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| Mardis Gras |
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| Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:35 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_113951_0.png] February 14, 2010 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I Jer 17:5-8 Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a b |
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| Xanadu Mass |
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| Saturday, February 6, 2010 11:32 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_113540_0.jpg] February 7, 2010 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were sta |
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| Gratitude |
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| Monday, February 1, 2010 11:18 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_112317_0.png] Feb. 1 What jumps out at me from these readings today is the theme of gratitude. In our minds we link up gratitude with justice, because in terms of our relationship with God, gratitude toward God is only just. But wit |
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| Groundhog Day ? |
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| Monday, February 1, 2010 11:15 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_111958_0.jpg] Feb 1 Gospel Mk 5:1-20 Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. The man ha |
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| Hometown Boy Makes Good |
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| Sunday, January 31, 2010 10:57 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:31510_110413_0.jpg] January 31, 2010 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 A Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah The word of the LORD came to me, saying: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born |
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| Snow Daze & Living Large |
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| Friday, January 8, 2010 9:30 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:11510_93324_0.jpg] January 8, 2010 Reading I 1 Jn 5:5-13 Beloved: Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ, not by water |
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| Happy New Year |
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| Monday, January 4, 2010 7:46 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:11510_75159_0.jpg] January 4, 2010 A reading from the first letter of St John (1 Jn 3:22–4:6) Beloved: We receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his commandment is this: we sho |
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| Christmas Journeys |
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| Friday, December 18, 2009 1:50 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| December 18, 2009 [Image:West_Branch_Susquehanna_River,_east_from_Hyner_View.jpg] Reading 1 Jer 23:5-8 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; As king he shall reign and govern wisely, he shall |
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| What are you anticpating |
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| Sunday, December 13, 2009 1:48 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| December 13, 2009 [Image:121909_21209_0.jpg] Reading 1 Zep 3:14-18a Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The LORD has removed the judgment against you he has turned |
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| Great Minds Have Great Purposes |
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| Monday, December 7, 2009 7:30 AM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:12809_80339_0.png] Gospel Lk 5:17-26 One day as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there, and the power of the Lord was with him for hea |
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| Advent -December 1 |
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| Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:26 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| Dec 1, 2009 [Image:12209_73518_0.jpg] Reading 1 Is 11:1-10 On that day, A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A Sp |
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| God is waiting for us.... |
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 8:34 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| Gospel John 6:37-40 Jesus said to the crowds: ìEverything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this i |
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| St Martin of Tours |
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| Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:44 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| November 11 - St Martin of Tours As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying, ìJesus, Mast |
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| New Honor Code Policy |
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| Friday, November 6, 2009 8:40 PM -0600 | By: Fr Michael |
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| [Image:NoCheating.jpg] The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Mose |
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