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This is “Gaudete Sunday,” and “gaudete” means “rejoice.” In fact, that word recurs again and again in this Sunday’s scriptures. We don these bright vestments and we exult, because the Incarnation is so close. But if you scan the headlines, there’s not much cause for rejoicing. It was reported last week that if the big…

This Sunday, after a week of turkey sandwiches, turkey casserole, turkey a la king, turkey burgers, turkey pot pie and turkey surprise… locusts and honey is starting to sound pretty good. We are here in the second Sunday of Advent – in the desert, with a strange and disheveled figure dining on strange food and…

A priest I know likes to say that Thanksgiving is one of his favorite holidays, and not just because of the food. The church is always filled, he says, and the great thing is that people come to mass today not because they have to…but because they want to. He makes a beautiful point. There…

The gospel this Sunday is familiar to a lot of us. We tend to think it’s all about ability, or talent — what special gifts God has given you. Certainly, that’s a big part of it. But I think there is more to the parable of the talents than just a lesson in using your…
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