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Most of us like control.  Won’t you agree?  Many of us like to shape the world around us, steer things in the direction WE choose.  How many of us try to change the topic of conversation if it’s one we are not interested in?  How many of us feel the need to choose the social

Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you got everything you ever wanted?  I know it sounds completely ridiculous.  After all, life doesn’t work that way, right?  But just for a second, imagine it does.  How would things have turned out for you?  For the better?   Are you sure? I don’t

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