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  • 03:32, 13 October 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Clothe Ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ '''Jesus lets us know that God calls us all to his kingdom. Besides, Jesus shows us how to clothe ourselves with him, so we may be of those whom God chooses.''' Today’s parable makes clear that those who accept God’s call to his kingdom must clothe themselves in a proper way. The right garb is crucial; it sets the few who are chosen apart from the many who are called. It is clear, too, that “many” means “all....")
  • 17:24, 5 October 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Dare the Wise and Learned to Be Truthful '''Jesus is the sign of contradiction. He brings to light what we harbor in our hearts. He cannot but dare us to be truthful.''' Jesus does not fail to dare the wise and the learned to choose the good that they learn and receive. That is to say, he asks them to act as they know better. And the wise and the learned are the chief priests and elders of the people, the scribes and the Pharisees. He puts them on the spot and...")
  • 21:25, 29 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Doubt the Quick “Yes” that We Say '''Jesus is the firstborn from among those who [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A21&version=NRSVCE do what is true and come to the light, so that there is no doubt that their works are just].''' No doubt, we have [https://famvin.org/en/2023/09/24/commit-to-the-poor-of-flesh-and-blood/ to love in deed and truth]. The second son in the parable says “yes,” but he does not do what the father asks. No work...")
  • 05:20, 26 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Solemnity of St. Vincent de Paul 2023 (Created page with ":''Commit to the Poor of Flesh and Blood '''Jesus goes about doing good; he loves in deed and truth. He does not just commit to an ideology. St. Vincent is like him.''' St. Vincent wants those who follow him to commit with zeal to those who are poor ([https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=vincentian_ebooks SV.FR XI]:133-137). And it seems that he himself cannot but commit to them. For he tells those who follow him: “As for me, n...")
  • 00:50, 20 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Admire the Thoughts and Ways of God '''Jesus makes known to us God, who is good to all and has mercy on all he has made, and whose thoughts and ways we are to admire.''' The landowner is good to the jobless. But there are those who, rather than admire him, grumble. These are the ones who have worked for twelve hours. For they get the same pay as those who have worked for just an hour. And, for sure, not a few of us go along with those who grumble. For we humans...")
  • 05:13, 13 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Reach by Grace the Unreachable Star '''Jesus is not of the world. Nor are his true disciples. They get to reach what we who are humans find hard to reach.''' There is no doubt that the way Jesus teaches is not the same as others’ way. For [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+1%3A22&version=NRSVCE he teaches with authority, not as the scribes]. Also, there is such a radical meaning in what he teaches that it turns things upside down. And that is...")
  • 21:35, 6 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Gather Together Two or Three in Jesus’ Name '''Jesus is always in his Church. Yes, he is in the midst of those who gather together in his name by the initiative of Providence.''' Jesus wants us disciples to know that we shall receive for sure what we pray for, but on one condition: we will have to agree on what to pray for. And he is the one that makes effective our coming to agree on what to ask for. For where two or three gather together in his name, there h...")
  • 20:31, 1 September 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Deny Themselves, Bear Their Own Cross, Follow Christ '''Jesus is all things to all. He leads those who live for others and deny themselves. For they do not seek their own good, but the neighbor’s.''' Peter is blessed. For in the first place, the Father, not flesh and blood, lets him know who Jesus is. In the second place, he will be the rock upon which Jesus will build his Church. But the blessed soon turns into a stumbling block. And he and the other discip...")
  • 22:25, 23 August 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''All Things to All so as to Save All '''Jesus, is the Teacher that shows us by words and by works what it means to become all things to all for the sake of God’s kingdom.''' Jesus asks his disciples, “And you, who do you say that I am?” It is the number one question for all time about him ([https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=maloney ''TWVDP''] 22). And, of course, answers vary, which seems to turn him into all things to al...")
  • 06:05, 16 August 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Foreigners No Longer, But Citizens Rather '''[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A14&version=NRSVCE Jesus, our peace, makes one the Jews and those who are not Jews, the foreigners. He tears down, through the cross, the wall of hate that separates them].''' A few Jewish Christians, it seems, do not think that the Good News of Jesus is for foreigners. For those of the circumcision party tells Peter to his face in an accusing way: “[https://...")
  • 19:55, 9 August 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Win with the Victorious over the World '''Jesus has overcome the world. That is why those who put their faith and trust in him cannot but win in face of trials, woes, doubts.''' It seems that it would not be hard for the early Church to win over others. For [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+5%3A13-14&version=NRSVCEo others spoke highly of the Christians and joined them in great numbers]. Yet the truth is that it has not always been smooth sailing...")
  • 20:14, 2 August 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Transfiguration of the Lord, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''God-with-us in Our Joys and Our Griefs Jesus, God-with-us, is the first of the brothers and sisters who rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. There is a [https://religionnews.com/2023/07/27/as-organized-religion-falters-the-devil-falls-on-hard-times/ report] that fewer folks in the U.S. believe in God and, one can guess, in God-with-us. For the number of believers in the U.S. is down to 58% from 68%, in 2001. Would it be out of place to ask...")
  • 19:28, 25 July 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Supreme Value of the Kingdom of God '''On top of being the scribe who is trained in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus embodies also the supreme value that this kingdom is.''' The teaching is clear that the kingdom of heaven is the supreme value. For there is this saying: “[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&version=RSVCE Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things will be yours besides].” And the parables of the bur...")
  • 21:01, 19 July 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Rush to Condemn and to Exclude '''Lowly, meek and patient, Jesus bears with the weak and annoying. We learn from him to bear with one another and not rush to judge.''' A church lector tells another church lector that he would love to be heaven’s gatekeeper. That is to say, to be the one separating one from another those at the gate seeking to get in. He would place the politicians from the Republican party on his right and those of the Democratic party on his l...")
  • 02:03, 16 July 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Optimists, for They Rely on the Word '''Jesus is at once the Good News of the kingdom and he that preaches it. He wants us to be optimists, preaching with him bountifully, not sparingly.''' We can say that today’s three readings invite us to be optimists. The first gives hope and comfort to those of God’s chosen people who live in exile in Babylon. They have reason, that is to say, to be optimists due to God’s word that creates and bears much fruit. The s...")
  • 02:02, 5 July 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Yoke That Is Easy, Burden That Is Light '''Jesus soothes those who are weary and carry heavy burden. To take his yoke and learn from him is to know the Father and find rest and ease.''' In wonder, Jesus thanks the Father. For, though Lord of heaven and earth, the Father favors with revelation the little folks. He does not despise them as the wise and the learned do. These put also on others the yoke of the law. That is to say, [https://www.biblegateway.com/pass...")
  • 03:37, 30 June 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Paradoxes: Signs of the New Creation '''Jesus brings in the new creation. The paradoxes that he lives and teaches let us know what the new creation means.''' Jesus uses hard sayings and paradoxes to announce the Good News. And there are, in today’s gospel, examples of these hard sayings and paradoxes. For sure, Jesus [https://cmglobal.org/vincentiana/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=q-00000-00---off-0vincenti--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-----dtx--0-1l--11-en-50--...")
  • 00:45, 22 June 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Fears the Sent Ones Must Overcome '''Jesus comes to his own people and they persecute him. His fate is the fate, too, of his disciples. They waver, then, due to their fears.''' Jesus senses the fears that his apostles harbor. These are the twelve disciples he sends to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And their fears are not groundless. After all, he has just told the Twelve of the [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A16-24&version=NR...")
  • 05:56, 19 June 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Sheep Who Do Not Have a Shepherd '''Jesus, the Good Shepherd, seeks the good of the sheep. He is not like those who steal, slaughter and destroy as they seek their own good.''' Jesus has compassion for the crowds, for they are troubled and abandoned like sheep that have no shepherd. A circumstance, then, triggers his compassion. That is to say, he does not seek to help humanity, abstract, far, universal, but concrete folks, near, particular He focuses, yes, on t...")
  • 20:11, 8 June 2023 Ross talk contribs created page The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Table to Which Jesus Invites us '''Jesus gives us his flesh to eat and his blood to drink. To sit down at his table means to be one with him and with others.''' Jesus tells the Jews, that is to say, the Jewish religious authorities, that the bread he will give is his flesh. This gives rise to a quarrel among them. And they end up saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Maybe they cannot but imagine a disgusting table, sickening. What they say b...")
  • 17:56, 3 June 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Trinity Sunday, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Savor the Love that God Has for Us '''Jesus shows the depth of God’s love to the end. To savor such love is to know the One who creates us and is with us and makes us breathe.''' Those who cherish the law, the Torah, savor it, for they find it to be [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+19%3A10&version=NRSVCE sweeter than honey]. So, Jesus who fulfills the law and the prophets, teaches with delight, no doubt, that [https://www.biblegateway.com/pass...")
  • 19:33, 28 May 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Pentecost Sunday, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Breath that Creates, Gives Life and Renews '''Jesus, the Good Shepherd, has come so that his followers, his sheep, may have life and have it to the full. He passes on to them his breath.''' In the Acts of the Apostles, fifty days separate Pentecost from Easter. But that is not so in John’s Gospel that we hear or read today. Here, Jesus blows his breath on his disciples and gives them the Holy Spirit. And this takes place on the evening of the same Sunday of hi...")
  • 07:00, 20 May 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Defend Those Who Are Poor and Helpless '''Jesus lives. That is why they see him and live those who believe in him, and love him. The Spirit of truth does not fail to defend them.''' Jesus takes leave of his disciples. For comes the hour for him to give his body up and to shed his blood. Hence, they are sad and in pain. And to lift them up, he says he will ask the Father to give them another Defender, the Spirit of truth. The Defender will be with them always....")
  • 06:55, 20 May 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Ascension, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Emmanuel, That Is to Say, God-with-Us '''Jesus, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22%3A13&version=NRSVCE the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end], is [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mathew+1%3A23&version=NRSVCE Emmanuel, God-with-us]. He is with us always, until the end.''' The first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew proclaims that Jesus is Emmanuel, God-with-us. And the last chapter narrates t...")
  • 20:16, 3 May 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Splendor of Christ on the Cross '''Hanging on the cross, Jesus is clothed with the splendor of self-emptying love. He thus is the source of blessings.''' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A21&version=NRSVCE Jesus was deeply troubled as he told his disciples that one of them would betray him]. This and the thought that he would soon suffer and die must have greatly saddened them. Needless to say, gloom, not splendor, has taken over. And so, h...")
  • 17:57, 27 April 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Grasp What Jesus Is, What He Says and Does '''Jesus who is close to the Father’s heart makes him known to us. It is crucial that we grasp what Jesus is, what he says and does.''' Those to whom Jesus speaks do not grasp what he teaches by way of a figure of speech. And they are not the disciples but the Pharisees. These asked him before, “[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9%3A40&version=NRSVCE Are we blind also?]” And his reply was: “[ht...")
  • 05:19, 20 April 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Third Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Revive the Faith of The Faltering '''Jesus feeds us with his word and his body and blood. He makes us live and seeks to revive the faith of those who falter.''' For sure, Jesus did revive the hopes of those who longed to see their homeland free from the rule of Rome. Did he not do so, the crowds would not have cried out, as he entered Jerusalem: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens.”...")
  • 07:25, 13 April 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Second Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Send Jesus, Send the Disciples '''Jesus is God’s Sent One to announce the Good News to the poor. And the Sent One, in turn, does not hesitate to send his disciples.''' Jesus tells his disciples that for him to send them is to give them a share in his own mission. For he says to them, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And no, Jesus does not hesitate to send his disciples. Those who are in a house with doors that have bars for fear of the leaders o...")
  • 06:28, 6 April 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Easter Sunday, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Risen from among Those Who Are Dead '''Jesus, who died on the cross, has risen. Hence, we cannot look for him among the dead, but among the living.''' Early in the morning, following the Sabbath right after Jesus’ death and burial, Mary of Magdala goes to the tomb. Aware of what [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+16%3A1-2&version=NRSVCE Mark] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+24%3A1&version=NRSVCE Luke] say, we can guess that...")
  • 03:35, 4 April 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Palm Sunday, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Feed Other Humans First of All '''Jesus seeks to feed us with his body and blood, so that we may have life to the full. He loves us, yes, to the end.''' For sure, the thirty pieces of silver cannot but feed even more Judas Iscariot’s greed. But does the traitor sell Jesus for a trifle, asking no high price for him! And, indeed, there is no price tag for the one whom Judas sells; he is beyond all value. After all, he is the rightful heir to the throne of David,...")
  • 06:59, 23 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Dead to Sin and Living for God in Christ '''Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in him, though they die, will not stay dead. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A5&version=NRSVCE In him they will live for God and be dead to sin].''' There cannot be dead folks among those who believe in Jesus. This flies in the face of my sorrow due to the death four days ago of a brother-in-law who believed. Yet this is clearly the te...")
  • 03:37, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Open the Eyes of Those Who Cannot See '''Jesus is the light of the world. That is why to open the eyes of the blind is part of the task that his Father has entrusted to him.''' Jesus decides on his own to open the eyes of a man blind from birth. The latter gets to see so clearly that he recognizes him to be a prophet. He later believes in him as the Son of Man. Never mind that he knows not of what the Pharisees claim they know for sure. It is enough for him tha...")
  • 03:32, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Third Sunday of Lent, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Reveal or Conceal God’s True Face '''Jesus’ food is to do the Father’s will and to finish his work. He thus keeps the true religion; he cannot but reveal God’s true face.''' Though we believe in God, we yet can conceal, rather than reveal, the true face of God ([https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html ''GS''] 19). And, of course, we can do so in various ways. We are guilty of...")
  • 03:26, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Second Sunday of Lent, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Visions of a Better Future of Glory '''Jesus is the risen Son of Man. And he is so, for, though the Son of God, he became a servant and obeyed to death on the cross. He makes our visions of glory come true.''' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A21-23&version=NRSVCE Peter does not like what Jesus says about his visions of what is to come]. They seem terrible to him. It is clear, then, his visions do not match those of Jesus. It does not m...")
  • 03:18, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page First Sunday of Lent, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Tempt Someone Is Not What God Does '''Jesus let the devil tempt him just as we are tempted, though he did not sin. Hence, he can feel for us who are weak, and lift us up.''' James makes clear that [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1%3A13-14&version=NRSVCE God does not tempt us. We are tempted by our own evil desire]. Today’s first reading and gospel, though, suggest that the devil prowls around and looks for those whom to tempt. And he is Sat...")
  • 03:13, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Perfect as Our Father in Heaven '''Jesus, who is in the bosom of the Father and knows him up close, shows us the divine face. He wants us to be perfect as our Father.''' It is quite clear what it means to be perfect as our Father in heaven: to go beyond what the law and the prophets command and forbid. Jesus, yes, [https://famvin.org/en/2023/02/08/higher-matthew-538-48/ sets the bar in life ever higher each time]. And he cannot but do so, for [http://www.vincent...")
  • 03:08, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Fulfill with All Out Heart What God Wants '''Jesus is the most blessed of those who are blessed since they fulfill what God wants. And he is the way that leads to God, and to bliss and peace.''' There is much we yet have to do to fulfill Christ’s wish that [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17%3A21&version=NRSVCE all Christians be one]. And [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A35&version=NRSVCE that we let others know by our lo...")
  • 02:57, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Delight the Earth and Enlighten the World '''Jesus is the great light that shines on those who walk in the dark. He is the delight of those who live in the land of gloom.''' As God’s wisdom, Jesus rejoices in the earth and finds his delight in humans (see [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+8%3A31&version=NRSVCE Prov 8, 31]). And, of course, for him to be with us also means he delights us. And he delights us for this basic reason: [https://w...")
  • 02:43, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Approach Jesus Christ with All Our Being '''Jesus is the Son through whom God has spoken to us humans in these last days. We Christians are to approach and hear him, and be what he says.''' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+19&version=RSVCE God wanted the Israelites to prepare for his coming down to Mount Sinai to give them the law]. He told them, through Moses, to show respect. So, they should be clean. Also, they were not to approach the mou...")
  • 02:34, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Preach the Good News to the Poor '''Jesus is the one the Lord God has anointed with the Holy Spirit and has sent to preach the Good News to the poor.''' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+2%3A3&version=NRSVCE In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge]. And the sacred writers and wise holy men and women bring them to light for us to see. We give them thanks since they share and preach what the Holy Spirit lets them know....")
  • 02:16, 18 March 2023 Ross talk contribs created page Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (Created page with ":''Give Witness to the Lamb of God '''Jesus is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. We are to fix our gaze on him and give witness to him.''' And we thank God for revealing this to John the Baptist and for sending him to give witness to it. May God give us now the grace to take a long and loving look at the Lamb of God. And to give witness to him, too. Clearly, to give witness to Jesus means that we, in the first place, value highly that he comes...")
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