Preaching the news

8 Feb 2015

Preaching the News for Sunday

Is three a crowd? Parently, not | France reels anew from religiously motivated attack | Keep the dream alive, Obama encourages young immigrants | Martyred archbishop hailed by pope

Is three a crowd? Parently, not

“He cured many who were sick with various diseases,” we hear of Jesus in this Sunday’s gospel. In an attempt to prevent potentially fatal diseases being passed on through damaged genetic material, Great Britain’s House of Commons . . .

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France reels anew from religiously motivated attack

The Lord “heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds,” the psalmist affirms this Sunday. While the French nation continues to heal from the trauma of recent acts of terrorism, anxieties were heightened anew . . .

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Keep the dream alive, Obama encourages young immigrants

Job speaks of the pain of the “hireling who waits for his wages” as he lives a life of “drudgery” filled with “misery and troubled nights.” Many an undocumented immigrant working on the margins and living in fear of deportation can relate. . . . .

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Martyred archbishop hailed by pope

All that Saint Paul does he does “for the sake of the gospel,” we hear in this Sunday’s reading from 1st Corinthians. Pope Francis Tuesday affirmed that assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Romero died for the sake of gospel values, not political ideology. The designation of Romero’s martyrdom . . .

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Quote of the week

"We're all guilty of being buried in our phones . . . You think life is better on your phone, but we’re missing what’s happening around us."

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Quote of the week

"We're all guilty being buried in our phones . . . You think life is better on your phone, but we’re missing what’s happening around us."

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Fact of the week

Immunization prevents between 2-3 million deaths every year. It is one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions.

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