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Deacon Joe McGinley

Deacon Joe McGinley is a Theology teacher at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, MA. He is assigned to St. Ann’s church in Raynham, MA, in the Fall River Diocese and he and his wife, Sue, reside in Attleboro.

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Holy lives of inspiration  |  Seasonal Reflections

The Three Comings of the Lord

By: Deacon Joe McGinley December 6th, 2022

Today’s reflection will consider an excerpt from a sermon offered by St. Bernard of Clairvaux. St. Bernard (1090-1153) was, to put it mildly, a twelfth-century force of nature. Abbot, mystic, reformer of the Benedictine order, a key figure in the emergence of the Cistercians, confidant to five popes, preacher of the Second Crusades, Doctor of the Church, and renowned for the quality of his teachings and a deep devotion to Mary.  

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