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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Today’s healing of the blind man is unique. For it is the only one in the Gospels that takes place as a two-stage process. Which made me wonder, why? Jesus could have restored the man’s sight in one shot, so there had to be a reason; maybe it is to help us understand how God works in our lives, step-by-step, day by day, and not all at once.
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Healing the family | Love thy Neighbor
While growing up, I had an uncle named Ignatius Buuka, who was blind. He lived with us at home. He was a jolly, hardworking man whom we loved, and whose company we enjoyed a lot. He passed on in the late 1990s.
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Holy lives of inspiration | Love thy Neighbor
How can a teenager lift a 3,000-pound tractor with his bare hands? Especially a teenager who is not a weightlifter? A while ago, on a farm near Rome, Maine, teenage Arthur Hinkley sprang into action when he heard his friend Lloyd Bachelder scream from under such a tractor, and somehow, he lifted the tractor enough for Lloyd to wriggle out. According to Calvin Miller, who published the story, love motivated and enabled Arthur to do the unthinkable to free his friend.
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As you heard last week, I just came back from visiting Bangladesh and the mission there. Bangladesh is a beautiful country, with many rivers teeming with fish, and diverse peoples and cultures. I have never eaten such an amount of rice and fish curry in my entire life. As the joke goes in Bangladesh, “Rice and curry in the morning, and curry and rice in the evening.” That is how they change their diet.
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Many years ago, the country that we currently know as Southern Sudan did not exist. It was part of the greater Sudan. The northern and southern Sudan are culturally and religiously different. The north is predominantly Arab and Muslim, and the south is predominantly Sub-Saharan African, and largely Christian. These cultural and religious differences became triggers of long-term conflicts between the north and the south of Sudan. Many Southern Sudanese ended up growing up in refugee camps in Uganda and the neighboring countries.
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Have you ever had this upsetting feeling that people are watching your every move and waiting to pounce on you when you commit even the slightest mistake? Jesus is presented to be in this sort of position in today's gospel. The time is the Sabbath. The place is the synagogue. A man is sitting there with a withered hand. Jesus is entering. The Pharisees are watching him closely to see if he will cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And sure enough, Jesus, who sees them and knows why they are there, says to the man “Come up here before us. Stretch out your hand.”
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