Monthly Archives: February 2009

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings When it comes right down to it, we have a choice. We can choose life or death, blessing or curse, the way of the Cross or the way of the world. The choice that we make has huge … Continue reading →

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Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings [from the Ash Wednesday Service of the Word] Behold: now is the acceptable time! Behold: now is the day of salvation! We have come here today for all sorts of reasons. Lots of us may still have the … Continue reading →

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Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings In our first reading today, we have an instruction on the virtue of integrity. Integrity is that virtue by which we show that we are who we say we are, that we are in our secret moments what … Continue reading →

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St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings St. Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of the apostles. He is known to have accompanied St. Ignatius of Antioch to Rome to confer with Pope Anicetus concerning the celebration of Easter, which was quite … Continue reading →

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Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings One of the graces that I have here at the parish is that whenever I go to parish meetings, we always pray through the Gospel for the coming Sunday and discuss it. The Spirit works through the community, … Continue reading →

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Saturday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” The writer of the letter to the Hebrews sums up for us this notion of faith, which can be so difficult to wrap … Continue reading →

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Thursday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings In the aftermath of the great flood, what’s left is what God wants us to know is important: life. Life is the way we participate in the essence of our Creator God. And that life is so important … Continue reading →

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Family Reconciliation Service

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Father Pat

Reading: Mark 10:13-16 Well, we have some children here tonight, so this reading about Jesus embracing the little children makes some sense. But not all of us are children, are we? We have big people and little people and every … Continue reading →

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Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings We’re still in the opening chapters of human history in our first reading, and in these opening chapters we see some of the less beautiful parts of human nature.  These are deadly sins, and they have continued to … Continue reading →

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Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Father Pat

Today’s readings “I do will it.  Be made clean.” When I was in seminary, I did my hospital chaplaincy in my fourth summer at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.  Every once in a while I would come to a … Continue reading →

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