Wednesday, August 6, 2025

August 6 2025 - Transfiguration and Cross

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  Today we celebrate the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Why? Why August 6? It seems like such a random day. We read the account o...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

August 05 2025 - St. Mary Major - Entrusting ourselves to Our Lady

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  Typically the Church’s Liturgical Calendar calls for the celebration of a holy person, but today we celebrate the dedication of a holy pla...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 - Vanity of vanities

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 The book of Ecclesiastes was written about 300 years before the birth of Our Lord and is part of the Old Testament known as the Wisdom lite...
Monday, July 28, 2025

17th Week in Ordinary Time 2025 - Monday - Growth of the Kingdom of Heaven

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 In the course of his public ministry, the Lord employed parables to teach about discipleship, faithfulness, and charity. Today’s Gospel con...

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 - Purification from Pride

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 The Catholic poet, Dante Alighieri, wrote a famous poem, over 700 years ago now, called the Divine Comedy—La Comedia Divina.  In the three ...
Friday, July 25, 2025

July 25 2025 - St. James the Greater - A pilgrimage lesson from the Camino de Santiago

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  You may have heard that as part of our seminary formation program here in Cleveland, the bishop has instituted what is called a propaedeut...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

July 23 2025 - St. Bridget of Sweden - Union with the Cross and Abundance of Life

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  The Opening Prayer mentions how God guided Saint Bridget of Sweden “along different paths of life.”  Bridget was a wife, a mother, a lady-...