30 September 2018

Dying to Live by Childlike Faith in Christ

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It is the Gospel that casts out demons.  It is the Gospel of Christ Jesus, crucified and risen, which drives out the unclean spirit and pour...
22 September 2018

Receiving and Embracing the Greatness of the Cross of Christ Jesus

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The disciples miss the mark widely in the way they react to the Word of the Lord concerning His Cross and Passion — arguing among themselves...
16 September 2018

“Lord, We Believe — Help, Thou, Our Unbelief!”

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There are a number of similarities between this Holy Gospel and the story we heard from St. Mark last week.  In each case, a parent comes to...
09 September 2018

Keep on Praying in the Confidence of Christ

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The Syrophoenician woman’s remarkable persistence in asking the Lord Jesus to help her poor little daughter is the evidence and confession o...
02 September 2018

Sinful from the Inside-Out — Forgiven from the Outside-In

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There is hardly another Word of God that so clearly and completely turns the world and all its “wisdom” on its head, and so utterly contradi...
29 August 2018

Baptized into the Death and Life of Christ Jesus

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Herod celebrates his birthday with a grand party, but he’s a dead man: dead in his trespasses and sin. St. John the Baptist goes from the ...
12 August 2018

The Living and Life-Giving Bread from Heaven

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The Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, conceived and born of St. Mary, has come down from the Father in heaven to be your Savior; ...