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February 25, 2018: Second Sunday of Lent
Reading: Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said…
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February 18, 2018: First Sunday of Lent
Reading: The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of…
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February 11, 2018: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading: A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can heal me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him…
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February 4, 2018: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading: On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached her, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them. When it was evening, after sunset,…
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October 29, 2017: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and…
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October 22, 2017: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do…
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October 15, 2017: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables saying. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time…
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October 8, 2017: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he…
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October 1, 2017: Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: “What is your opinion? A man has two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’ He said in reply, ‘I will not’, But afterwards changed his mind and went. The man came to the…
Beverly Okey is a Providence Associate. She was taught by Sisters of Providence all through grade school, high school and at Saint Mary of the Woods College. She is retired now after 25 years as Director of RCIA (and other duties) at her parish. Beverly now enjoys time for hobbies, traveling with her husband Bill, volunteering at her parish in Newburgh, Indiana, and being part of her local Gilda's Club (cancer support).