Sunday

31 Aug 2014

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A Click here for all content for this cycle Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Jeremiah 20:7-9 The prophet suffers the violence of humiliation and rejection but still chooses the Lord.

Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 God is the answer to hunger and thirst, danger and need.

Romans 12:1-2 This age seeks to make us mindless minions. Or we can be radically free in faith.

Matthew 16:21-27 The person free in Christ is even free enough to die, liberated from final death.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

The drama and passion of a life lived in relationship with God includes “until death.” Jesus is able and willing. Are you?

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Exploring the word

Disciples of this age or the next?

The danger of losing your beautiful, unique, priceless soul to the Oversoul of culture is real and imminent. But there's a cure for the 21st century, and it's simple and absolutely affordable no matter what the limits of your health insurance are. Just unplug.

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

Jesus made it clear to his disciples that it was now necessary for him to go to Jerusalem, submit to an ordeal of suffering at the hands of the religious leaders, be killed, and then on the third day be raised up alive.

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Homily stories

Holy sacrifices

RECONSTRUCTING a school is a big job anywhere. It’s especially difficult when that school is located in war-torn Mozambique and needed just about everything: money, desks, and equipment, among other essentials.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

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Homily themes

Notes on the text

Yearning and deprivation lead to glory; thirst to leads to a banquet; sacrifice to renewal; denial and the cross to kindness which “is a greater good than life.”

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Sign & sacrament

Sacrifice has its rewards

The Jesuit Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues came to North America largely to convert as many members of the Huron tribe to the Catholic faith as possible.

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Quotes

Being friends . . . love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored. —Vincent van Gogh

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