Category: Weekly Sunday Blog archive
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel

Click here to read the gospel for Epiphany What kind of journey are we talking about for these so-called wise men or as one translations has it “some men who studied the stars”? If you go back to the lyrics for We Three Kings, you find that that part of…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel

Click here to read this Sunday’s Gospel This week we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. This holy family heads to Jerusalem (from Nazareth we suppose from the end of the gospel). It is time to present Jesus in the temple. We are introduced to a couple of characters…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel

Imagining Sunday’s Gospel Click here to read the Gospel for the Fourth Week of Advent One day before Christmas this year we are at the fourth Sunday of Advent. Tomorrow (or tonight) we will celebrate the birth of Jesus. For the Sunday reading, we have the story of the Annunciation.…
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Praying with the Psalms

Prating with the Psalms Click here to read Psalm 3 In Pssalm 3 David, the assumed author of this psalm is reaching out to God for help against his enemies. This could easily be sung by Jesus after an encounter with the many factions that line up against Jesus during…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Imagining Sunday’s Gospel Click here for the readings for the Third Sunday of Advent This third week of Advent we get another peek at John the Baptist from the apostle John this time. Priests and Levites from Jerusalem came to where John was baptizing with their questions about who John…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Imagining Sunday’s Gospel Click here for the readings for the second Sunday in Advent 2023 This week we go right to the beginning of St Mark’s Gospel and a quote from what Mark identifies as Isaiah but is really a combination of Malachi, Isaiah and Exodus. Mark then moves on…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here for the readings for this Sunday For the first Sunday in Advent in 2023 we start reading from Mark’s Gospel. We read from Mark most Sundays this next year. We begin in this Gospel though, towards the end of Jesus’ public life just before His passion, death and…