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24 Apr 2016 - Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. —T. S. Eliot The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. –Singer Patti Smith (b. 1946)

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24 Apr 2016 - Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C (sample issue)

sample issue Testimonial: “I consider PREPARE THE WORD essential in my ministry.” ~ Deacon Les, Sun City, AZ For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. —T. S. Eliot The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. –Singer Patti Smith (b. 1946) Prepare to be great! Subscribe to PREPARE THE WORD now to get instant access to all of our world-class preaching resources.

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08 Jan 2017 - Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Cycle A

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. —Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, / But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, / With an alien people clutching their gods. –T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi

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18 Nov 2018 - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. —T. S. Eliot I observe, then, that though Christians may be mistaken in what they took to be signs of Christ’s coming, yet they were not wrong in their state of mind, they were not mistaken in looking out, and that for Christ. —John Henry Newman (1801-90) All those who hold to true faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and show proof of their faith by good works . . . . will rise again to hear the king of heaven himself saying to them: “Come, my Father’s blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.” —Saint Gregory Palamas (1296-1359)

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05 Jan 2020 - Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Cycle A

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms / But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation / With an alien people clutching their gods. —T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi God does not reserve his love for a privileged few, but offers it to all. —Pope Francis The Magi . . . perceived one thing with the eyes of their bodies but another with the eyes of the mind. —Chromatius Has it ever occurred to you that neither Herod nor his scribes could see the star the Magi saw? Otherwise they might have followed it themselves. . . . only the Magi could see the star and that was because they were visionaries, men who believed in the possibility of the impossible. —Anne Porter, The Ticket

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14 Nov 2021 - Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Do not accept anything as truth that lacks love, and do not accept anything as love that lacks truth. One without the other is a destructive lie. —Edith Stein, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. —Benjamin Franklin What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. —T. S. Eliot

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15 May 2022 - Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. —T. S. Eliot The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. —Patti Smith Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God. —Saint Augustine

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08 Jan 2023 - Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Cycle A

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. —Vera Nazarian We returned to our places, these kingdoms, / But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, / With an alien people clutching their gods. —T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi Stars cross the sky, wise men journey from pagan lands, Earth receives its savior in a cave. Let there be no one without a gift to offer, no one without gratitude as we celebrate the salvation of the world, the birthday of the human race. —Basil the Great

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