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“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” One of my weekly chores as a kid was to dust the living room, and there was an old-country-style decorative piece on the end table with those words painted onto it. Every week when I wiped it down, I’d…
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“Eyes alight with glowing hair, all that fancy paints as fair…” She is the Divine Feminine. She has many names throughout different religious cultures (Sophia, Mother Mary, Hathor, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Mary Magdalene, Gaia, Aletheia, etc.), but the Church names her Wisdom, the Holy Spirit, the Breath of God. She is the oracle, the…
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Sunday, September 14, 2025Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary TimeFeast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross …First Reading:Numbers 21:4b-9The first reading is a story of the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness. The people were getting impatient and frustrated, complaining to God and Moses. Their lack of gratitude and trust in the process led to consequences, or…
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Sunday, September 7, 2025Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time …First Reading:Wisdom 9:13-18bThis week’s first reading reminds us to remain humble in our need for understanding — we will never fully comprehend even the physical, earthly matters, so how could we ever possibly understand the workings of Spirit? Wise discernment requires prayer/meditation, humility, and openness to the…
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Sunday, August 31, 2025Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time …First Reading:Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29This week’s first reading tells us that greatness and strength aren’t measured by perfection, at least not in Spirit’s eyes, nor in those aligned with our highest path. True greatness and strength come from embodying humility, no matter our accomplishments in life. Do…
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Sunday, August 24, 2025Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time …First Reading:Isaiah 66:18-21The overall message in this passage is that God will look anywhere on Earth, even in (especially in) the most unexpected places, to call people into ministry and service. Responsorial Psalm:Psalm 117:1, 2, Mark 16:15Anyone and everyone may be called into service to spread Light…
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Sunday, August 17, 2025Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time …First Reading:Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10In the first reading, the prophet Jeremiah was unjustly thrown into the cistern, awaiting his death by thirst and starvation. But before he fully met that fate, he was risen from the pit and lived.Responsorial Psalm:Psalms 40:2, 3, 4, 14b, 18The responsorial psalm is…
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