Category: Discipleship
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Everyday Stewardship / 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we…
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For My Father
Since Father’s Day is this weekend, I wanted to remember my father by posting here an Everyday Stewardship reflection I wrote for All Souls Day this past year. He was larger than life when he was with us, but I am thinking he is still quite a character in the after-life as well. With Love,…
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
This week, I was watching a movie that seriously questioned the integrity of a woman’s boyfriend. Early in the story two young women read a newspaper profile of an unknown suspect that included a police sketch. One of the women said to the other that the sketch looked like the first’s boyfriend. He had in…
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The Risk of Eating Well
So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” So they said to him, “Sir, give…
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Everyday Stewardship / Feast of Body and Blood of Jesus Christ (Corpus Christi)
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which…
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Cutting the Grass Again
It’s that time of year when the grass just grows and grows. Crazy thing is for me, I have 2 lawn mowers, but both of them are broken! Since I have not wanted to pull the trigger as of yet on a new mower, I have to keep calling my lawn guy to come and…
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Lavishly Sowing Seeds
The Parable of the Sower On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower…
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A Glimpse of Heaven
I remember, many years ago now, going to a funeral for the husband of a woman in our parish who was well-respected as a spiritual director and prayer warrior. The funeral mass was anything but sad because it was a celebration of life and God’s gift of a single man to this world, this parish…
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God’s Microphones
“Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the market. Wherever there is someone…
Tracy Earl Welliver 