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05 Mar 2017 - First Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. —Mark Twain I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. –Henri J. M. Nouwen

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20 Aug 2017 - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

That is our vocation: to convert . . . the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. —Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. —Revelation 7:9

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22 Jul 2018 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. —Mahatma Gandhi In a world that victimizes us by its compulsions, we are called to solitude where we can struggle against our anger and greed and let our new self be born in a loving encounter with Jesus Christ. It is in this solitude that we become compassionate people. —Henri J. M. Nouwen

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16 Aug 2020 - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

That is our vocation: to convert . . . the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. —Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) As this bread, scattered on the mountains, was assembled to be one, may your church be likewise gathered from the extremities of the earth into your Kingdom. —Didache, first century

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02 May 2021 - Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle B

If you wish to know the mind of a person, listen to their words. If you want to know their hearts, watch their actions. —Lisa Prozen When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. —Henri Nouwen You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life . . . . I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. —Galatians 1:13

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18 Jul 2021 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

This is what it means to really take pity on the poor, and on those who have no one to guide them: to open the way of truth to them by teaching, to heal their physical infirmities, and to make them want to praise the divine generosity by feeding them when they are hungry. —Venerable Bede We are called to solitude where we can struggle against our anger and greed and let our new self be born in the loving encounter with Jesus Christ. It is in this solitude that we become compassionate people, deeply aware of our solidarity in brokenness with all humanity and ready to reach out to anyone in need. —Henri Nouwen

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05 Sep 2021 - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

I address a strong appeal that the dignity and safety of the workers always be protected. —Pope Francis We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help. —Henri Nouwen There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. But I tell you, this provokes avarice, and there comes the sin. Richness is given by God, and it is our duty to divide it with those less favored. —Mother Teresa

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05 Dec 2021 - Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle C

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. —Pope Francis To find joy in another’s joy, that is the secret of happiness. —George Bernanos To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. —Henri J. M. Nouwen

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03 Apr 2022 - Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle C

In this life guilt is not atoned for by any suffering simply as suffering, but rather by suffering borne with desire, love, and contrition of heart. The value is not in the suffering but in the soul’s desire. —Catherine of Siena (1347-80) As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us . . . . we will remain addicted to putting people and things in their “right” place. —Henri J. M. Nouwen From the end, spring new beginnings. —Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)

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08 May 2022 - Fourth Sunday of Easter; Good Shepherd Sunday, Cycle C

Our life is a short opportunity to say yes to God’s love. —Henri Nouwen If I did not believe . . . that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming. —Dorothy Day Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. —William James

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