By: By Sharon Priester Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jan. 19 Isaiah 49:3,5-6; Psalm 40:2,4,7-8,8-9,10; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; John 1:29-34 —– Do you remember the times in school when teams were to be chosen — maybe for a game, a spelling bee or some other kind of competition? I remember wanting to be chosen, hopefully […]
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Photo Caption: Sister Rachel, a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island, serves as pastoral associate at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Peoria Heights. By: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Dedication of the Lateran Basilica/Nov. 9 Ezekiel 47:1-2,8-9,12; Psalm 46:2-3,5-6,8-9; 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11,16-17; John 2:13-22 Many years […]
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By: Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 26 Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3,3-4,47,51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall […]
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By: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 12 Isaiah 25:6-10a; Psalm 23:1-3a,3b-4,5,6; Philippians 4:12-14,19-20; Matthew 22:1-14 I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite events to attend is a wedding. There is something about the air of celebration that is contagious at a wedding. I guess I am in […]
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By: By Sharon Priester Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sept. 28 Ezekiel 18:25-28; Psalm 25:4-5,6-7,8-9; Philippians 2:1-11; Matthew 21:28-32 —– Every day we make many decisions — what to wear or eat, what route to take to get to work, what groceries are needed, etc. Sometimes, the decision is a knee- jerk response, really simple and […]
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By: By Sharon Priester Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sept. 14 Numbers 21:4b-9; Psalm 78:1bc-2,34-35,36-37,38; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17 The cross today — a universal symbol of Christian belief, carried in processions in our churches, a thing of beauty. During Jesus’ time, it was a sign of torture, dread, humiliation and degradation. […]
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By: By Tim Irwin Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 31 Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63:2,3-4,5-6,8-9; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27 The Gospel reading for this week, the Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, and last week illustrate the challenge of discipleship through a day in the life of Simon Peter. In last Sunday’s Gospel Jesus asked, “Who […]
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By: By Tim Irwin Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 17 Isaiah 56:1,6-7; Psalm 67:2-3,5,6,8; Romans 11:13-15,29-32; Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus comes off a little surlier than normal in the Gospel according to Matthew for the Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Jesus and his disciples have withdrawn to Phoenicia, an area inhabited mostly by the Canaanites. […]
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By: By Tim Irwin Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 3 Isaiah 55:1-3; Psalm 145:8-9,15-16,17-18; Romans 8:35,37-39; Matthew 14:13-21 It ought to come as no surprise to people who believe our salvation came through God becoming man that a means of connecting with God would be through eating. Making the message as naturally human as […]
Continue readingBy: By Tim Irwin Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 20 Wisdom 12:13,16-19; Psalm 86:5-6,9-10,15-16; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13-24-43 The Gospel readings for last week, this week, and next week are drawn from the 13th chapter of Matthew. This chapter relates the parables of the Kingdom of God, some of the best known teachings of […]
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