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“Who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Jesus responds when asked to step into a legal dispute in this Sunday’s gospel. He then makes a pronouncement that gives all parties pause. . .
“Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart," prays the psalmist this Sunday. Whether we have counted our days properly in Afghanistan . . .
This Sunday’s “vanity of vanities” lament from the Book of Ecclesiastes asks, “What profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?” BP CEO Tony Hayward . . .
“Think of what is above, not of what is on earth,” counsels the Letter to the Colossians in this Sunday’s second reading. With their eyes on the night sky but their thoughts on land far ahead, an environmentally conscious group of friends . . .
“There are some traditions that can't remain frozen in time as society changes.”
The average worldwide temperature for the first six months of 2010 was 57.5 degrees F, the highest since record-keeping began in 1888. Average temperature records have been set the past two years.