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It's Mercy or It's Hell. 24th Sunday Ordinary Time

on September 13, 2020

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Pentecost 2021

In tonight’s Vigil readings, the Church pairs up the Feast of Pentecost with a story you might not expect, the Tower of Babel from Genesis chapter eleven. If you think about it for a second you realize: oh, yeah, the language thing! The miracle of everyone understanding across language barriers at Pentecost is the undoing of Babel. Cool. If you keep thinking about it, this actually runs incredibly deep. The building of the Tower of Babel begins with people saying “let us make a name for ourselves.” In English we use that phrase to mean something like getting famous, making your mark. In the Biblical Hebrew it’s much deeper than that. In seeking to “make a name for themselves,” their project is to create and choose for themselves an identity . To make up for themselves who they are and what their lives are about. This sure resonates in the world you and I are living in. Isn’t this the way our young generation is being brought up, isn’t this what they’re being told by the world? Creat

Our Religion In 19 Words: 30th Sunday OT

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Strongest: 11th Sunday OT

How strong is your faith right now? How's that for an icebreaker, right? But I’m really asking. How’s your faith life? That’s a big question you could think and pray about all month, so for now I’m asking you to just notice your first gut reaction. How’s your faith life, what’s your first gut reaction? But believe it or not, important as that question is, it’s only a lead-in to the question I really want to focus on, which is: how do you know? Saul of Tarsus knew a lot more than most of us. He had a top-tier education with the great Rabbi Gamaliel. He knew the Scriptures inside and out. He was steeped in the wisdom and traditions of generations of his people. He knew in his deepest guts that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was the one, true, and living God, and that every other worship is idolatry. And he absolutely knew that this executed criminal, this Jesus of Nazareth, was a blasphemer and that his cult was a growing threat to the true religion of Israel. Precious childre

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It's Mercy or It's Hell. 24th Sunday Ordinary Time

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