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True and false zeal

Gal 1:3-24 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had […]

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Men and women

Gen 2:18-25 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what

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True joy

Lk 10:17-24 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall

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The victory of love

Job 19:21-27 Job said: Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has touched me!  Why do you, like God, pursue me?    Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? “Oh that my words were written!    Oh that they were inscribed in a book!  Oh that with an

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Children and angels

Mt 18:1-5.10 Reading of the memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels ‘At this time the disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ So he called a little child to him whom he set among them. Then he said, ‘In truth I tell you, unless you change and

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Spiritual childhood

Mt 18:1-5 Gospel on the Feast Day of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus At this time the disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ So he called a little child to him whom he set among them. Then he said, ‘In truth I tell you, unless

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Living in vigilance

Mt 13:47- 52 Reading corresponding to the memorial of St. Jerome Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that is cast in the sea and brings in a haul of all kinds of fish. When it is full, the fishermen bring it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in baskets

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