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Homily not available for July 17, 2022 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

  “Jesus said to him, ‘What is written in the law?  How do you read it?’” So says Jesus to a scholar of the law.  Jesus is doing what he does so well – follows a question with a question (or two questions in this case).  The scholar wants to know what he needs to

“Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.” As we all know, Jesus often said tough things.  Some of the things he said paint seemingly unreasonable expectations.  “I can’t do that,” we might think to ourselves.  Some of his sayings depict a world completely the opposite of how we think

When I was in grade school I would often get the same “command” from my teacher over and over and over again.  And it wasn’t because I was a bad kid.  That wasn’t it at all.  And I certainly didn’t mean to be disrespectful. Yet, the truth is, often I would get a little bored

What nourishes you?  I’ll give you a second . . . . What nourishes you? When I think about that question, I realize that it’s really not so easy to answer.  What nourishes me?  I’m not so sure.  It’s much easier to answer the question, “What do I feed myself?”  Pretty much what most Ghanaians