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Gentleness
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Matthew 11:25-30 – Gentleness Come to me, all you who labor and are weary . . . We can use these words of encouragement as we approach at any number of times in our lives for...
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A Vocation for Building
Sunday, September 2, 2012 – Nehemiah 1- A Vocation for Building Jerusalem: Stones at the Temple South Wall We have visited with this book several times during our Noontime reflections and we know that...
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Universality
September 3, 2012 – The Catholic Letters – Universality The New American Bible explains the inclusion of the letters of James, Peter, John and Jude in the canon of the New Testament saying that “early...
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Candor and Hope
Sunday, November 4, 2012 – Jeremiah 16 – Candor and Hope We seek better things to come . . .What are we to think of the words recorded here by the prophet Jeremiah? A paraphrasing from the...
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The First Journey
Saturday, January 12, 2013 – Genesis 42 – The First Journey West: Jacob Blesses His Sons Everyone in this story is tested. Jacob’s sons are reluctant to go to Egypt for rations of grain even though...
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A Prayer for Steadfastness
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Sirach 21 A Prayer for Steadfastness In our Easter journey we have been exploring the idea that discipleship brings hidden gifts along with its difficulties and suffering. We...
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Innocence
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – Job 36 – Innocence Too many times the innocent suffer. Too often the blameless stand accused unjustly. What do we do when this happens? What wisdom supports us? What...
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Gentleness
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - Matthew 11:25-30 – Gentleness Come to me, all you who labor and are weary . . . We can use these words of encouragement as we approach at any number of times in our lives for...
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How to Suffer
Saturday, September 21, 2013 1 Peter 2:21-24 How to Suffer “Peter is the saint in the Gospels who is most like us, the closest to our humanity, and yet also very close to Christ. We can always follow...
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Obedience
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 1 Peter 1:13-16 Obedience Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus...
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A Reason for Our Hope
Sunday, October 6, 2013 Sirach 39:16-35 A Reason for Your Hope We pause in our study of 1 Peter and turn to the wisdom of Sirach. In verses 21, 25, 33 and 34 we begin to find clarity to a question...
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When We Consider
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Psalm 8:3-5 When We Consider When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man that you take thought of us,...
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A Pierced Heart
Friday, December 20, 2013 Luke 2:21-40 A Pierced Heart This is a verse which is my consolation as a parent . . . and particularly as a mother: A sword shall pierce your own heart, so that the...
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Reason for Your Hope
Sunday, October 6, 2013 Sirach 39:16-35 A Reason for Your Hope We pause in our study of 1 Peter and turn to the wisdom of Sirach. In verses 21, 25, 33 and 34 we begin to find clarity to a question...
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The Watching Tree
Sunday, August 3, 2014 Jeremiah 1 & 2 The Watching Tree Footnotes tell us that the watching tree in verse 11 refers to the almond tree; “the first to bloom in the springtime as though it had not...
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Seventy Years
Monday, September 1, 2014 Jeremiah 25:1-14 Seventy Years Can we imagine a seventy-year exile from all that we know? Can we picture seven times seventy years, or a four-hundred-ninety year banishment...
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Jeremiah in the Dungeon
Sunday, September 21, 2014 Jeremiah 37 Jeremiah in the Dungeon We have spent several weeks with Jeremiah as he exhorts, complains, and calls. He warns of the danger in presuming that the enemy has been...
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How Long?
Saturday, January 31, 2015 Daniel 12:6 How Long? How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things? Exodus 10:3: Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of...
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Quite Near
Sunday, February 1, 2015 Ephesians 2:13 Quite Near Psalm 13:1: How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? In yesterday’s Noontime we gathered our prayers...
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Habakkuk 2:3-4: The Delay
Habakkuk 2:3-4: The Delay March 6, 2015 In this Lenten season we witness to the presence of Christ in our daily routine. In this time of introspection we welcome the Spirit into the temple of our...
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