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2016-01-17T21:24:16-05:00

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Monday of Epiphany 2 – John 3:14-21

Last updated on: January 17, 2016 at 9:24 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 3:14-21 When did John 3:16 become the most famous verse in the Bible? I’m not sure. If you had to pick only one verse in the Bible to memorize, you probably couldn’t do better, although there are many others equally worthy. What I fear is that anyone would think that the verse is sufficient by itself. Implicit in this wonderful verse about the love of God is the sinister antithesis of the love of God: man’s disobedience and unlove... Read more

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2016-01-15T19:30:30-05:00

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Saturday of Epiphany 1 – John 3:1-13

Last updated on: January 15, 2016 at 7:30 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 3:1-13 I am the one who comes by night; I am the one who comes. Forgive me for having the cowardice to come by night, but please remember that I am one that comes to see and learn. Some will deride me, saying, “He is a teacher of the law and should know all things. He is embarrassed, and this is why he comes by night.” Others will ridicule me, saying “He is a coward, afraid of those in... Read more

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2016-01-14T17:41:28-05:00

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Friday of Epiphany 1- John 2:13-25

Last updated on: January 14, 2016 at 5:41 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 2:13-25 I love the fact that Jesus cleansed the Temple, and especially the fact that He made a whip of cords and overturned the tables and drove out the money changers from the Temple. This single passage does more than perhaps any other passage to drive out of the Church the false images of Jesus Christ that have been propagated for centuries, especially, it seems, since the late 19th century. No more Bearded Lady Christ for me; no more... Read more

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2016-01-13T12:30:14-05:00

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Thursday of Epiphany 1 – John 2:1-12

Last updated on: January 13, 2016 at 12:30 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 2:1-12 As we proceed through the season of Epiphany this year, it’s good for us to rehearse the origin and themes of the season. Epiphany comes from a Greek word which means to appear or reveal. Epiphany is one of the earliest of Christian holy days and dates from the 2nd century in its earliest form. The ancients believed that January 6 was the winter solstice, that time when the days of the year begin becoming longer – in... Read more

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2016-01-12T12:42:31-05:00

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Wednesday of Epiphany 1 – John 1:35-51

Last updated on: January 12, 2016 at 12:42 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 1:35-51 In this morning’s seemingly quiet lesson I see a mountain filled with thunder and lightning and earthquakes, for in this morning’s lesson I see Jesus Christ calling men to Himself to be His disciples: I see the beginning of the New Covenant, and I see Satan fall like lightning from the sky. John presents this heaven and earth and humanity-changing series of events in such simple and humble language that the grand and glorious work of God may... Read more

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2016-01-11T20:29:16-05:00

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Tuesday of Epiphany 1 – John 1:19-34

Last updated on: January 11, 2016 at 8:29 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 1:19-34 Flannery O’Connor, the great Roman Catholic novelist of the 20th century, once said: “The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your... Read more

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2016-01-10T22:42:22-05:00

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Monday of Epiphany 1 – John 1:1-18

Last updated on: January 10, 2016 at 10:42 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

John 1:1-18 Years ago one Christmas, in my adventures with a friend of mine, we stumbled across the New Mexico town of Madrid. Madrid had formerly been a coal mining town and then a ghost town, and most recently artists had started to re-colonize it. But back in the 1930s Madrid had a spectacular display of Christmas lights, so bright that TWA re-routed their flights to behold the glory of this small mining town’s lights. When the town died, so... Read more

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2016-01-08T13:09:12-05:00

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January 9 – Acts 28:23-31

Last updated on: January 8, 2016 at 1:09 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Acts 28:23-31 God certainly does work in mysterious ways His wonders to perform! Exhibit A: St. Paul, who began life not as St. Paul but as Saul of Tarsus: Scourge of the Christians. Only after a most unlikely cosmic smackdown did Saul become Paul. But it’s not just St. Paul who reveals God’s mysterious way of ministering to us this Epiphany but also his ministry itself. Going first to the Jews, in keeping with prophecy, the Jews rejected Paul and... Read more

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2016-01-07T12:56:02-05:00

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January 8 – Acts 26:1, 13-23

Last updated on: January 7, 2016 at 12:56 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Acts 26:1, 13-23 There are three aspects of the life of St. Paul that we must not confuse, or else we will become confused and ineffective as ministers in God’s Kingdom. The first is the ministry that St. Paul received, the second is the scope of his ministry, and the third is the manner in which he received his commission to ministry. The conversion of St. Paul and the ministry of St. Paul were written by God in such fiery... Read more

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2016-01-06T12:34:43-05:00

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January 7 – Acts 11:1-18

Last updated on: January 6, 2016 at 12:34 pm By Fr. Charles Erlandson

Acts 11:1-18 “What God has cleansed you must not call common” (verse 9). That is the message this morning. St. Peter had a hard time accepting that when God called all foods clean, he, Peter, had better stop calling some of them unclean (or “common” or “profane”). The Jews had a hard time accepting that when God called the Gentiles clean they had better stop calling them unclean. And us? We seem to have a hard time accepting that when... Read more

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