Proper 08 (Year C)

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Created: June 26 2022 June 26 2022

When Elijah despaired for his life, the Lord made Himself known to the prophet not in wind, earthquake or fire, but in a whisper. Today God whispers through His messengers who prepare the way for Him, those who put their hand to the plow of preaching, who proclaim the kingdom of God without looking back. They preach that despite the power of the Law, with its “yoke of slavery,” Christ has set us free by the power of God, achieving our salvation through the Gospel of forgiveness.

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Proper 07 (Year C)

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Created: June 19 2022 June 19 2022

The Lord calls even those who do not seek Him or ask for Him. He spreads out His hands and invites them to dwell in peace upon His holy mountain. We who are enslaved by the assaults of the devil are set free by the Word of Christ. We are brought into the Lord’s house, fully clothed in Christ; He has fulfilled the Law on our behalf, redeemed us from its every accusation, justified us by His grace through faith in His Gospel and declared each of us “no longer a slave, but God’s child.”

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Trinity Sunday (Year C)

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Created: June 12 2022 June 12 2022

The divine Word of the Father is also the holy Wisdom who “was beside Him, like a master workman,” who “was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always.” This Word became flesh and suffered death in order to bestow life. The Father glorified Him by raising Him from the dead, so that all who keep His Word will never see death. As He “received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,” so it is by and through the Son that God the Father pours out the Holy Spirit upon His Church.

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Pentecost (Year C)

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Created: June 05 2022 June 05 2022

Following the flood, Noah’s descendants settled on a plain and decided to exalt themselves by building a tower. As “one people speaking the same language” they spoke proudly and arrogantly. The Lord humbled them by confusing their languages, thereby dividing and dispersing them.

That dispersal was finally reversed on Pentecost Day, the fiftieth day of Easter, when the Holy Spirit filled the disciples. God caused the one Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be preached to all people in a multitude of languages. Not surprisingly, “at this sound the multitude came together.”

The preaching of Christ is the primary work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Jesus’ words, the words of the Father who sent Him. Indeed, Christ is the Word who bestows forgiveness and peace to those who keep and hold on to Him: “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

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Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year C)

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Written by Joan Crouse Joan Crouse

Created: May 29 2022 May 29 2022

On the night when He was betrayed, Jesus interceded for His Church, that all of His disciples “may become perfectly one” in the Father and the Son. Jesus became flesh and dwelled among us to reveal the Father and His name, to share with us the glory of His righteousness and to bring us to the Father in Himself. Through the apostolic witness to the Baptism, cross and resurrection of Jesus, the Lord gathers His disciples throughout the world “with one accord” as one body in Christ. And so with one voice and by one Spirit, His Bride prays, “Come.”

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