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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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We are commemorating today one of the truly great popes of our church. He is called the Great because he was known for his charity, his sense of justice, and his political diplomacy - but perhaps even more so, Saint Gregory was known for his devotion to Christ and the Church. He urged us to study, saying, "I beg you study and meditate each day the words of God, for in so doing you would come to know the heart of Jesus."
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Once the Olympics were over, athletes who won medals returned home to applause and in some instances, parades! No so with Jesus. He returned home and joined others for a service in the synagogue. He rose to speak and said the spirit of the Lord had sent Him to bring glad tidings to the poor. There was no applause or parades. The reaction was mixed. Some were amazed that such words could come from His mouth since they remember Him as a young man, and they knew His parents, Joseph and Mary.
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“How do You know me?” Do you ever wonder if God knows who you are? Many of us have known a lot of people, some more than others and a few know us, but does God know us?
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I can just imagine what some people may be thinking when they hear Jesus say that "the last shall be first, and the first shall be last," and also advocating equal pay for a person who only works a fraction of how long other have worked. It just doesn’t make sense. Is Jesus forcing us to think further about the implications of what He said and did?
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Jesus, how many times do I have to forgive someone if they have sinned against me? Peter was asking a question that many of us may have asked at one time or another in our lives. Consider yourselves blessed if you have never been hurt by what someone said or did to you. Peter was conflicted...
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In his book, The Gospel of Matthew, Pope Francis commented on the passage of the Transfiguration of Jesus saying, "along with Peter, James, and John, we, too, climb the Mount of Transfiguration today and stop in contemplation of the face of Jesus to retrieve the message and translate it into our lives."
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