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4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
January 29, 2023

Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

The Good Life

Jesus took special notice of the “disadvantaged” people, as our culture likes to call them. On Sunday we will hear him explain that the most blest people are the poor [in spirit], the ones who grieve, the ones who are meek, the ones hungry and thirsty for fairness [“righteousness”], the merciful, and the peacemakers.

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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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