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4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
January 29, 2017

Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Blessed Are You, If …

God calls us to be persons who are loved and who love in return. The erratic things—what we own, what honors we receive, how filled with pride we are—these just get in the way.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

The Struggle for Wholeness

The truly spiritual person is a whole person and a whole person is, as Christ was, the ascetic and the hedonist, the lover of this life and the lover of the next life, the dreamer and the realist, and countless more things, all at the same time.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Help!

If one has to observe the law in order even to seek for God, then it seems that only those who have already found God can begin the process of seeking for God.



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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Justice and Love

We are to seek justice, following the Lord, who secures justice for the oppressed, and following Christ, whom God has made our wisdom and also our justice.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Blessed

How can the “weak of the world shame the strong”? What does this mean to you? Is weakness a top priority for the United States today, or is it strength?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda


Sanguis Pretiosissimum


Leaving

the hospital

grounds a

rose

splashed

vermillion

in

my face


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