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  Monday - 6 th Week in Ordinary Time     Gospel – Mark 8:11-13 Just Walk Away! Walking the Palm Sunday Road A while ago I got into a ‘discussion’ with a good friend, and it got heated!   And yes, it was about politics!   Tempers and temperature quickly rose to a boiling point. Despite all my efforts to calm things down, I did the only thing that made sense.   I gave up; I threw up my hands and walked away! Face it! We live in a world of short tempers and long memories, of vicious words and violent actions.   A world of uncivil words and selfish actions!   A world where common decency and respect are signs of weakness and violent actions are signs of strength and justice.   What to do! There are a number of times in the Gospels where Jesus is at His most human: crying over the city of Jerusalem and His agony in the Garden.   But today’s Gospel contains a story I do not recall ever reading.   Jesus is growing increasingly co...
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  6 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 5:17-37 Coming Down the Mountain Mountains outside Nazareth A little context and background here!   Jesus has gone up on the mountain to teach the crowd.   He has given them new “commandments” such as the Beatitudes and today He bluntly tells them that He is not here to get rid of the “old” Commandments but to fulfill them.   Life just got a bit tougher, Going up a mountain and giving new “laws” very clearly remind us of God giving Moses the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai.   But Jesus goes further and adds the law of love.   Then in today’s Gospel, He says, in no uncertain terms, that doesn’t mean you don’t need to follow the Commandments anymore.   It’s not an either/or situation; it’s both!   So for anyone in the crowd hoping for an easy path to heaven, sorry, not gonna happen. Let’s face it: most of the Commandments are worded in terms of AVOIDING evil.   Jesus’ command to love others...
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  Saturday – 5 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Mark 8:1-10 Leftovers Lunch at Tiberias, Sea of Galilee Well, you missed it; you really missed it!   If you had only been over at our house last night, you would have been treated to a dizzying array of culinary delights, an unbelievable assortment of tasty treats! We had fried catfish and French fries, Chicago-style deep dish pizza, shrimp fajitas, burritos and beef tacos! And strawberry cheesecake for dessert!   It was a dinner worth relishing a second time.   As a matter of fact, it truly was.   We feasted on what was commonly called LEFTOVERS!   It was the night that we cleaned out the fridge of all the remnants of dinners past! Now that might not seem all that appetizing but think about it.   What do leftovers really tell us?   We made more food than we could eat!   We could save the extras for a rainy (snowy and cold) day.   We got to revisit a meal from the past and appreci...
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