by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… In a similar way, Jesus insists that a person speaks ‘out of the abundance of the heart’ (Luke 6:45). He too compares our speech, whether good or bad, to what grows on a tree: ‘For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit’ (Luke 6:43). …”
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“… Jesus … said … ‘Let the children come to Me; do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.’ …”
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“… Jesus told them … from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. … they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.’
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“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. ‘Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and
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“Lord Jesus, send Your Spirit to help us to read the scriptures with the same mind that You read them to the disciples on the way to Emmaus. … Create silence in us so that we may listen to Your voice in creation and in the scriptures, in events and in people, above all in the poor and suffering. May
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“The blessings and woes we hear in today’s Gospel mark the perfection of all the wisdom of the Old Testament. That wisdom is summed up with marvelous symmetry in today’s First Reading and Psalm: Each declares that the righteous—those who hope in the Lord and delight in His Law—will prosper like a tree planted near living waters. The wicked, who
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“Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the
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“In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, ‘My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and
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“… Then He looked up to heaven and groaned. ‘Ephphatha!’ Jesus said. So goes the account of the healing of the deaf man near the Sea of Galilee, as told in Mark. The word is one of a handful of words in Aramaic—believed to be the vernacular language of Jesus—that survived into the Greek New Testament. We don’t have to
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“‘… The Sower sows the Word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. But they have no
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