What complicates your life? Every day we make choices about how we use our time, energy, and resources. Looking to Jesus’ life as a simple carpenter, we know that complexity is not what God desires for us. In our hearts we know that God calls us to a simple, liberating relationship with created things, but living this requires a perspective shift. read more...
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Sunday Scripture Reflections
Bishop Robert Barron - The Beauty of the Law: Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus travels outside of Israel and heals a man of his deafness. Today, we live in a realm of spiritual deafness. We are bombarded with voices from outside, echoing around us until we are as incapable of hearing as the man from our Gospel. Like him, look to Jesus to heal you so that you might hear the word of God and understand his truth, rather than the lies of the world which surround us. listen or read more...
Dr. Timothy O'Malley - The Challenge of James: James speaks directly — too directly for us, who perhaps like to soften the claims of the Gospel. Show no partiality. If a man comes in with gold rings and the finest of clothes (or in our case, a new BMW with a polo shirt from Vineyard Vines), you should treat him exactly as you would treat a man lacking these things. read more...
Dr. Scott Hahn - All Things Well:
The incident in today’s Gospel is recorded only by Mark. The key line is what the crowd says at the end: “He has done all things well.” In the Greek, this echoes the creation story, recalling that God saw all the things He had done and declared them good. read more...
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