Redemptive suffering as Advent message
"Most powerfully, Christ’s resurrection reveals that all of this—these broken relationships, suffering, death itself—is temporary for those who have been ...
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Gaudete Sunday in a pandemic
"Leaders or would-be leaders must be like John the Baptist." In the Gospel reading for Gaudete Sunday, which ...
Read moreAdvent in tumultuous times
"How do we welcome Jesus in this season of Joy when there is so much affliction around?" The Second ...
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Fr. Tim’s grand welcome in heaven
"His work prepared the Way of the Lord for many of us." Last week’s Gospel reading calls on ...
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Second Sunday of Advent
"Always, God never fails to intervene." St. Matthew, the Evangelist, announces the coming of John the Baptist, the ...
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The challenge of the Baptist
In the Gospel of Mark two days after the Second Day of Advent, John the Baptist personifies repentance and reparation ...
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