Category: Sunday Warm-up
Sunday Gospel Warm-up
June 8, 2023
A Divine Presence and Love
June 11, John 6:51-58
This is Corpus Christi Sunday or better the Body and Blood of Christ. These past Sundays, we’ve celebrated important feast days focusing us toward the belief in God’s living presence.
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June 1, 2023
The Trinity
June 4, John 3:16-18
Most appropriately, after celebrating the Holy Spirit, this Sunday we focus on the Trinity. The Trinity is totally in the realm of mystery, but what it definitively says about us is that our destiny is to be intimately held within that community of love.
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Sunday Gospel Warm-up
May 25, 2023
Peace Be With You
May 28, John 20:19-23
This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday.
We celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples. In the Gospel, Jesus appears to the disciples and “breathes”
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May 18, 2023
Divine Empowerment
May 21, Mat. 28:16-20
The celebration of Ascension is about empowerment. Jesus passes the baton to us to continue and complete His mission, but not by our own power and wits.
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May 10, 2023
May 14, John 14:15-21
To love is to know God. That pretty much sums up the message in this weekend’s Gospel and really throughout the writings of John. Of course, such knowledge only flows from authentic love which always has measure of the cross in it.
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May 4, 2023
A Divine Love
May 7, John 14:1-12
How do we encounter the risen Christ?
That is central focus of our scripture readings in this season of Easter and, in today’s Gospel,
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April 27, 2023
The Good Shepherd
April 30, John 10:1-10
Jesus is the Good Shepherd. The reality is that there are a lot of individuals and groups in this world who would like to claim us as their sheep and be our shepherd.
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April 20, 2023
Restoring Hope
April 23, Luke 24:13-45
The disciples of Jesus after his death were scattering evident by the two disciples heading to Emmaus and away from Jerusalem. They were probably in despair as anyone would be having experienced the torture and death of someone dearly loved.
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April 13, 2023
Fear and Doubt
April 16, John 20:19-31
In our Gospel this Sunday, Jesus appears to his disciples in the locked room. He takes head on the two great forces that endanger our faith – fear and doubt.
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April 5, 2023
The Empty Tombs
April 9, John 20:1-9
We hear from the Gospel that Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb. The other disciple does not come to believe until he enters the tomb.
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March 29, 2023
Passion from the Gospel of Matthew
April 2
The passion of Jesus is both the lowest point we can reach in our humanity. Jesus, a completely innocent man, is betrayed and condemned,
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March 23, 2023
Being Fully Alive
Mar. 26, John 11:1-45,
There is one thing worse than dying and death. It is physically walking and breathing, yet, being soulfully dead. The story of Lazarus is of one being returned from the dead,
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