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Homily – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scholars still don’t know who wrote The Letter to the Hebrews, that second reading we heard. But what they do know is that, like all the other books of the Bible, The Letter to the Hebrews is inspired by God. What I find inspirational, personally, is the part where the author says, “We have a great high priest (referring to Jesus) who, although he was in heaven, was never content with remaining there ruling the world from a distance. He ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary TIme

Reflection – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary TIme

My mother had a multitude of pithy sayings, some her own phrases, some borrowed from others. One such saying was, “Misery loves company.” I thought of that when I read today’s second reading. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are,” Paul writes to the Hebrews. Someone who can sympathize with us; someone who understands our sufferings; someone who ...

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Ellen Bennett

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Reflection – October 21st-22nd – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – October 21st-22nd – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Cowboys, Kraft Dinner, and Racism

I recently had a conversation about watching old movies, specifically the John Wayne-type of westerns. In the 1970s and early 1980s you could watch a John Wayne western any Saturday afternoon on one of the two fuzzy channels we received on television in rural New Brunswick. I experience good, warm feelings when I think of these westerns, recalling memories of feeling safe, sitting on the floor in front of the television eating Kraft Dinner and buttered ...

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Trevor Droesbeck

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