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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Thanks to both Joe and Padraig. Your comments always add texture and quality to the Sunday resources. Please keep them coming! Pat

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  • 25 February. Monday of Week 7

    February 25 2019
    Jim Hepp

    I liked your homily. I was trying to understand what Jesus meant when he said "This kind can only be driven out by prayer". I was thinking Jesus was referring to the boy's father since the father's

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  • A prayer on the occasion of the Vatican Summit on abuse in the church

    February 16 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Massimo Faggioli applies Girard to this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218079096477407&set=a.4936257692724&type=3&theater&notif_t=nf_photo_story&notif_id=15510122075120

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    That's a good question, Frances. How would we ever know. However, what I am sure about, from what I have read over the years, is that John Paul II was the main instigator of the policy of cover-up. No

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, you must listen to this --I hope the link works. There is a rather long recitative, "Deeper and deeper still" which you will have to listen to first but it is well worth the wait to get to the ma

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Thank, Paddy, for recommending Kenneth McKellar -- what a beautiful voice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXWaeYPkKA

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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Padraig. [1 Sam 26 -- the reading continued until Saul's blessing of David in the church here] A heart-stopping moment: will it be another tale of tit for tat revenge, as David [or rather Abi

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    Paddy @ 9 I agree with you about Cardinal Marx. He really understands the pain and suffering of survivors and there is a great picture of him in the middle of survivors at a news conference during th

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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Joe #1: The "Silver Rule" is at Tobit 4:15: "Do to no one what you would not want done to you."

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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Some reflections I find helpful are from Jude Siciliano OP. The words of Jesus in the gospel may seem to tell us how to be victims. Jude's account is quite the opposite: Jesus is showing how NOT to b

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