Tag: Family of the Divine
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – Imaging the Family of the Divine
“So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh– for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; . . . . “ (Romans 8:12 – 13a) Paul has a habit of stringing phrases along like pearls on a string – not knowing what…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year A, 2023 – Old Testament Passage: Family is . . . Family
“Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” (Genesis 50:15) Genesis tells us that Joseph’s father lived long enough to see and bless Joseph’s children. And to be settled in…
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Sundays After Easter, Yr A, 2023 – Epistle Passage: A Pentecostal Moment that unites us, & ignites us
“No one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.” (I Corinthians 12:3b) I think I have commented on this passage before, and during Pentecost – because I have thought before this is a passage well matched to the Pentecostal moment. And I find myself feeling that Paul captures very well the diversity…
A Simple Desire 