Sunday

10 Oct 2021

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B Click here for all content for this cycle Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Wisdom 7:7-11  The one who prays for wisdom receives all good things in its wake.

Psalm 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17  Wisdom of heart comes from remembering our mortality.

Hebrews 4:12-13  The word of God is wiser and shrewder than the deceit in people.

Mark 10:17-30  Wisdom involves not only keeping the rules but also following Jesus.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

How have you experienced God’s word as “living and effective”? How has it helped you to discern?

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Exploring the word

The price of admission

Nobody’s perfect. Or almost nobody: It seems we have to make exceptions for folks like Saint Paul, who as a Pharisee insists that he kept the law perfectly. And then there’s this fellow who falls at the feet of Jesus—a little theatrical, perhaps, but not strictly disallowed—and claims to have kept all the commandments since his youth.

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Homily stories

Love me truly

I have a very vocal cat, and she’s constantly trying tell me something, but I never had any idea what. I consider myself a very doting and attentive pet parent who tends to her every need.

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Homily stories

My kingdom for a cup

"I preferred her to scepter and throne,” scripture says of wisdom, “and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her.” In a story from the Muslim wisdom tradition known as Sufism, a holy man called Aman journeyed to see the caliph, a great ruler.

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Homily stories

Full-hearted living is messy

Hector had always been a pretty good guy. He had learned kindness and gentleness from his parents growing up in Mexico and brought those values with him when he migrated to this country. He got a good job and began to make a decent living.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

To help us become closer followers of Christ, we confess our failings to our merciful God.

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Quotes

All through our life Christ is calling us. He called us first in Baptism, but afterwards also, whether we obey his voice or not, he graciously calls us still. If we fall from our Baptism, he calls us to repent; if we are striving to fulfill our calling, he calls us on from grace to grace, and from holiness to holiness, while life is given us.

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