24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 15, 2019
Fr. Neil Moore, visiting priest

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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 8, 2019
Leif Kehrwald

​In the past I have mentioned that Scripture writers used all sorts of literary tools to communicate their message, from prose to poetry, from myth to parable, from comic strip to apocalyptic writing. If you don’t know the literary tools being used, you can easily miss the primary message. 

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 1, 2019
Fr Elwin Schwab

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21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 25, 2019
Fr Elwin Schwab

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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 18, 2019
Sr. Phyllis Jaszkowiak
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Jesus comes to cast fire on the earth – the fire the Spirit of God.  Our God is a consuming blaze of all that is good and right and just. This fire burns away all that is not God.  Divine fire always demands a transformation and response.

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 11, 2019
Leif Kehrwald

​God’s timing can be utterly ironic. A week ago, Tuesday evening, I was struck with a blast of fiscal prudence and went to my computer to check on my retirement monies. Still there, growing ever so slowly. The very next day, at our staff meeting, we read Sunday’s Gospel story about the land owner who was doing the same thing I did the night before. In his accounting he had stored up great wealth and so could now ‘eat, drink, and be merry.’ As for me, I am a long way from taking down my barns and building new ones to store all my riches. Still, I felt a chagrinned at the timing.

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 4, 2019
Fr. Elwin Schwab

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
​July 28, 2019
Sr. Phyllis Jaszkowiak

When the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray as he prays, Jesus gives them one of the most radical prayers in the whole Bible, the Our Father.  We all know it by heart.  Do we really know what we are praying or do we just say the words?  Most of the time, I admit, I am just saying the words.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 21,2019
Father Elwin Schwab

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 14, 2019
Leif Kehrwald

Our Old Testament reading from Deuteronomy concludes with:
 
The command is not mysterious. It is already in your mouths and hearts. You have only to carry it out.
 
Reminds me of the story that is told of the scholarly preacher who poured over his theological volumes and biblical commentaries every week in preparation for his sermon on Sunday morning. He locked himself in his study for hours crafting his message. Week after week.