National Catholic Mission 2011

April 6th, 2011

Homily – April 3

April 3rd, 2011

Today’s gospel tells of another one of Jesus’ great acts of kindness. Imagine being blind from birth. We’d have no sense of color, no idea of the beauty of the world around us, no idea of what our loved ones looked like, no idea of how we looked. What a shock this blind man must have had when sight shattered his darkness and for the first time he saw. He saw the sun, the sky, he saw his parents, and he could put faces to the voices he’d been hearing for years. He saw the temple.

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Bulletin – April 3

April 3rd, 2011

In this week’s bulletin, the Passover remembrance meal and the National Catholic Mission returns.

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Homily – March 27

March 27th, 2011

Water is very much in the news these days. The news out of Japan is tragic. We usually associate water with life but in Japan and a couple of years ago in Indonesia and just recently in Australia we saw the destructive power of water. Over the last week we’ve seen scene after scene of a wall of water sweeping everything before it, homes, autos, ships and men, women and children. This was not life giving water, it was destructive and death-dealing. It will take years for the good people of Japan to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.

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Bulletin – March 27

March 27th, 2011

In this week’s bulletin, the National Catholic Mission returns, and the Sharelife collection.

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