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13 September 2023
- 05:1305:13, 13 September 2023 diff hist +7,375 N 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..."
- 05:0305:03, 13 September 2023 diff hist +69 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
6 September 2023
- 21:3621:36, 6 September 2023 diff hist +7 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 21:3521:35, 6 September 2023 diff hist +5,161 N 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..." current
- 21:3121:31, 6 September 2023 diff hist +68 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
1 September 2023
- 20:3320:33, 1 September 2023 diff hist +6 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 20:3120:31, 1 September 2023 diff hist +6,728 N 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..." current
- 20:2620:26, 1 September 2023 diff hist +69 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
23 August 2023
- 22:2722:27, 23 August 2023 diff hist −2 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 22:2522:25, 23 August 2023 diff hist +7,392 N 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..." current
- 22:1422:14, 23 August 2023 diff hist +68 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
16 August 2023
- 06:0806:08, 16 August 2023 diff hist +37 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 06:0506:05, 16 August 2023 diff hist +7,011 N 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://..." current
- 05:5905:59, 16 August 2023 diff hist +65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
9 August 2023
- 19:5719:57, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 19:5519:55, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,060 N 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..." current
- 19:4919:49, 9 August 2023 diff hist +66 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
2 August 2023
- 20:1720:17, 2 August 2023 diff hist −4 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 20:1420:14, 2 August 2023 diff hist +8,308 N 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..." current
- 19:3419:34, 2 August 2023 diff hist +59 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter