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This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.
The sorrows of Mary find their significance in the faithfulness that they expressed. Jesus calls us to faithfulness as well.
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MT 20:1-16A
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM
Jesus tells his hearers what it takes to be a good disciple of his: produce good fruit and build something strong to leave behind yourself.
Since we are all limited in one way or another we must be very sure that we have as great a measure as possible of the appropriate qualities when judging others is required.
To understand what we are as Church, the Creed gives us four adjectives: one, holy, catholic, apostolic.
There are people in the lives of all of us who never seem willing to do us much good. Jesus says that we must do good to them as God does to us.
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MT 18:21-35
Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?”
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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM
In August of 2006, Wendy Avery returned to her Ohio home, feeling as if she was trying to jump back onto a spinning merry-go-round. For an entire year, her world had stopped, but everyone else’s kept spinning. How does one simply hop back on? How does one rejoin the dance when the music has been muted?
We all must examine our consciences. How often would you or I forgive an offense from the same person? “As many as seven times?” as Peter asks.
