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The
Word Engaged
John Kavanaugh, S. J.
...Long ago, when I spent a month working at the “house of the dying” in Calcutta, I sought a sure answer to my future. On the first morning I met Mother Teresa after Mass at dawn. She asked, “And what can I do for you?”
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Historical
Cultural Context
John J. Pilch
...Readers need an appropriate “time” scenario to read these verses. While Americans are normally future oriented, peasants are too deeply mired in present concerns such as “daily bread” to think about the future at all....
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Thoughts
from the
Early Church
Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.
Commentary:
Gregory of Nyssa
When the Lord says: ‘Let your loins be girded and your lamps lit,’ he is warning us to stay awake; for a light shining in one’s eyes drives away sleep...
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Preparing
for Sunday
Larry
Gillick, S. J.
There is the familiar saying, “What’s a nice guy like me doing in a place like this!” We may have all found ourselves in a similar frame of mind about being somewhere we’d rather not be....
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