Today’s Gospel theme is worry and anxiety. The Greek verb in ‘do not be anxious‘ is merimnate, used also in Philippians 4:6, ‘Have no anxiety about anything.’ God gave us life and our body, so he will give us the lesser gifts of food and clothing, and therefore anxiety is unnecessary. We are all prone […]
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Jesus loves the law and would do nothing to discredit it, but has come to complete it. Thus, he often begins by reinforcing the familiar with, ‘You have heard that it was said…‘ and moves on to, ‘But I say to you…‘ The new understanding usually expands, rather than reduces, the message of the law,
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Friday, November 1st is the Solemnity of All Saints. Holy Mass will be held at 6 p.m. We would to thank everyone who supported our golumbki sale on Saturday October 12th. We will be selling pierogi and golumbki on an on-going basis. Please contact Karen Filipski at (315) 823-4152 to order. On Sunday November 17th
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More than anything else the Parable of the Prodigal Son reveals God’s love for us. We can all, to some extent, have a wrong understanding of God. We can think of him as harsh, demanding, judgmental or condemnatory. But in today’s parable Jesus reveals the fatherly heart of God. The parable is, in fact, less
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Mark’s account is part of the mystery of God’s plan. The best way to understand Jesus’ passion is by considering the words of Peter on the Feast of Pentecost: ‘this Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God‘ (Acts 2:23). Of course, this does not mean that Jesus was handed
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Jesus saw the cross as an instrument of glory. He did not recoil from his destiny; rather he recognized that his moment, his ‘hour’, had come. He observed a principle of life within the natural world, namely that life is born from death. In order for a plant to flourish, the kernel needs to die.
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