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In September, 2019, The Vatican hosted an inter-religious forum to reappraise the role of Jesus and the Pharisees.

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You might recognize her signature teaching. “But all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” (Julian of Norwich)

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“The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the followers of Ch…

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We find Elijah at a vulnerable moment; it has begun to dawn on him that the God who called him is not at all the God he thought he knew.

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After the Children of Israel are liberated from slavery in Egypt, the remainder of the Torah – almost four of the five books of Moses –takes place in the wilderness. 

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Only John tells us that it was a young boy who offered his meager lunch. The Israelites wandered 40 years in the wilderness; the actual trip might have taken 11 days. But it took two ge…

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The one who is the true Joshua/Yeshua, the one whose name means “Yahweh saves,” has come amongst his sheep. In today's Gospel, Jesus is enacting the fulfillment of Moses' prayer. (Numbe…

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"Before laying the world’s foundation, God chose us in Christ." When God began creating the universe with galaxies and nebulae, God also thought of you. "God determined out of love to a…

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“Is this not the brother of James and Joses?” In Hebrew, Jacob and Joseph. Jacob of course was the father of twelve sons, Joseph being the youngest, and favored son. And Judah and Simeo…

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The woman's fear proves a threshold to her faith. She knows what has happened to her; she falls down before Jesus and tells him all the truth of her healing. She speaks her experience a…

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In the night, the disciples seem to have forgotten that Jesus is the one who called them to cross to the other side. The whole time they are beset by wind and waves, Jesus is with them …

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It’s a bit of a stretch to imagine a mustard plant with branches large enough for the birds of the sky to dwell in its shade, but the world Jesus invites us to imagine is a world filled…

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Inside the house, Mark tells us there are so many people, they are not able to eat. The Greek text says they are not able to eat bread. If the house is divided, it makes sense that we c…

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Jesus does not celebrate the meal with his family, nor does he just gather any of the disciples who happened to be around him. Mark makes clear that Jesus celebrated the Passover with t…

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A song is both lyrics and melody. If you try to teach love just using words you’ll miss a big part of it, because love is something that must be embodied, like a melody. 

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“To attempt one language instead of another is to make oneself a learner, a supplicant.  It is an act of exploration and of hospitality.  To speak across barriers of race, ethnicity, ge…

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In our Reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the 11 disciples have no idea this is graduation day. They are still looking to Jesus to restore the kingdom to Israel.

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The word translated “friend” is from the verb “to love.” So when Jesus speaks of friends, he is really saying “those who are loved.”

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The language of pruning is also a metaphor for the passion.  We see a similar image in John 12:24,  where Jesus speaks of the seed that must fall to the ground and die in order to bear …

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“I lay down my life for the sheep.” Jesus goes before us, first to die, then to rise. Dying and rising is the pattern for all of us who walk in his way.

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