The work of the Baptizer
‘Tis the busy season for Santa Claus and Kris Kringle.
We are all working very hard to be Santa for those we love — or to be good enough for Santa to come down our chimney this Christmas with that perfect gift.
Thanksgiving - USA
Fr. Rodney Kissinger, S.J.
“Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine?
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” (Luke 17: 17-18)
Ingratitude has been called “the most unkindest cut of all.” Yes, it is so easy
to fall in love with the gift and forget all about the Giver; to admire a
painting and never think of the painter; to enjoy music and never know the
heart from which it came; to accept and love ourselves and not to care for the
One from whom we came.
34th Sunday A: Christ the King
The “poor door”In New York City, housing is very expensive. In order to provide affordable housing for the low-income, working poor, the city has set up the Inclusionary Housing Program: Construction companies are given generous subsidies and tax breaks if their buildings include a certain percentage of low-income apartments, in addition to its high-rent luxury apartments.
33rd Sunday A - Talents - 3 Servants
Every child’s future
Imagine a classroom of eight and nine-year-old children in any elementary school in any town.
See the boy in the third row who watches the clouds all day? He’s not daydreaming — he’s fascinated by weather: he wants to know why it rains, what makes it snow, how hurricanes form. As he gets older he could transform his inquisitiveness into a career as a meteorologist or science reporter . . . if . . .
32 Sunday A - Parable of 10 Bridesmaids
Fr. Jude Boteho:
The first reading from the Book of Wisdom personifies wisdom, as Lady Wisdom, who is to be found by all who seek her. Through divine wisdom God communic
The first reading from the Book of Wisdom personifies wisdom, as Lady Wisdom, who is to be found by all who seek her. Through divine wisdom God communic
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