September 19, 2021. James 3:16-4:6. James’s epistle is about faith in action. In today’s passage, he diagnosis the problem: the reason...
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September 12, 2021. James 2:1-5,8-10,14-18. James challenges us to check our preconceived preferences and use God’s corrective lenses as we look...
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September 5, 2021. James 1:17-27. What does the Christian life look like? What should it look like from a distance to onlookers? Fr. Butler looks...
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August 29, 2021. Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Jesus takes on the Pharisees, Scribes, and tradition of the elders about what makes a person clean and...
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August 15, 2021. John 6:53-59 Most of us are out of touch with our deepest longings and desires. But Jesus invites us to tap into our deepest...
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August 8, 2021. John 6:37-51. Jesus doesn’t want us to “bonk” as we run the race of life, so he invites us to fill ourselves...
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August 1, 2021. John 6:24-35. We are inclined to think of Christianity as something we do for God. Fr. Houk sees Jesus’s words as an...
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July 25, 2021. Mark 6:45-52. Jesus puts his disciples on a boat where the wind and the waves bring up that seasickness called fear. And then he...
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July 4, 2021. 2 Corinthians 12:2-10. Fr. Melton reflects on Paul’s words that God’s grace is sufficient for us, and how it comes in...
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June 20, 2021. Job 38:1-11, 16-18; Mark 4:35-41;5:1-20. God’s sovereignty is unfathomable; nevertheless we can always trust in his Fatherly...
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June 13, 2021. Ezekiel 31:1-6,10-14. St. Mark 4:26-34. Jesus uses two parables to teach his disciples that life is meant to be lived in the...
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Corpus Christi: June 6, 2021. St. John 6:47‑58. As young Christians receive Holy Communion for the first time this Sunday, Fr. Houk reminds us...
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