Blog Post by David Paternostro S.J.
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29 July 2015
29 July 2015 Memorial of St. Martha Martha gets a bad reputation among Christians. Everyone remembers the time when Jesus chided her for being ...
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28 July 2015
28 July 2015 Tuesday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time The first reading today figures prominently in the first volume of Pope ...
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27 July 2015
27 July 2015 Monday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time Yesterday we saw God helping us in ways we could not even imagine. Today, we begin ...
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26 July 2015
26 July 2015 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time “God helps those who help themselves” (or some variation) is a saying often mistakenly ...
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30 May 2015
30 May 2015 Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time At the time Sirach was being written, there was a crisis within Judaism. Israelites ...
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29 May 2015
29 May 2015 Friday in the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time Today’s gospel may have one of the most bewildering accounts about Jesus contained in ...
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28 May 2015
28 May 2015 Thursday in the 8th Week of Ordinary Time Today’s gospel features the story of Blind Bartimaeus. Knowing that Jesus was near, ...
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27 May 2015
27 May 2015 St. Augustine of Canterbury St. Augustine of Canterbury is like so many of the reluctant heroes we read about in stories. He ...
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26 May 2015
26 May 2015 Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priest While not a Jesuit himself, St. Philip Neri has a special place in Jesuit history. For one ...
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25 May 2015
25 May 2015 St. Bede the Venerable, Doctor St. Bede was a British monk who dedicated himself to prayer, writing, and study. He was so well ...
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