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The Fourth Sunday
in Ordinary Time B
January 28, 2018
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Listen

Do you or I ever find God too large and threatening for our small selves? Do we ever ignore God’s voice as it speaks commandments that go against what we want?

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

Five People Who Helped Give Me Some Self-Under-standing

In describing his own struggles, Augustine writes: “I want to be a saint, but I also want to experience all the sensations that sinners experience.”

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

The One and the Many

Real freedom is being able to do what you want to do. But if you have two minds about something, which mind is the real you? How can there be one real you when you are in two minds about something?

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

A Specific Respons-ibility

Society is often a ‘false prophet,’ claiming to speak the truth and even to be ‘Christian,’ but at the same time glorifying war and oppressing the poor.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Prophecy

Does God raise ordinary people from our midst to become prophets? Is there a cause for which you might become a prophet?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

The Retired MD

I have seen tears
and listened

and in listening
began the healing

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