Blog Post by Richard Nichols S.J.
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28 February 2016
28 February 2016 Third Sunday of Lent What is the relationship between sin and suffering? One way of looking at it is that suffering is the ...
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2 January 2016
2 January 2016 Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church People acquire the habit of ...
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1 January 2016
1 January 2016 The Octave Day of Christmas Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God “When eight days were completed for his ...
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31 December 2015
31 December 2015 The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas “Children, it is the last hour” (1 Jn 2:18). What a fitting verse to begin our mass ...
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30 December 2015
30 December 2015 The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas Today’s first reading from the first letter of John presents us with a stark warning: ...
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29 December 2015
29 December 2015 The Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas A good many books, movies and magazines enjoy presenting alternative and revisionist ...
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28 December 2015
28 December 2015 Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. When King Herod realized that he had been ...
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27 December 2015
27 December 2015 The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Today is the feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. God chose to send ...
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31 October 2015
31 October 2015 Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Jesus gives us good advice on how to behave at a formal banquet, say, at a ...
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30 October 2015
30 October 2015 Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Today’s gospel mentions a man who was suffering from dropsy. Dropsy is a ...
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