God’s deal with Joseph
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The Holy Family is our family. And God shows us that we are part of a project that thrives on making room for the new.
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The Holy Family is our family. And God shows us that we are part of a project that thrives on making room for the new.
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The gospel for Advent 4A gives us Joseph’s angelic encounter while deciding about Mary when most of us are thinking Christmas.
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We often read the challenge Joseph faces as doing the “right” thing. What the angel invites them all into is something new.
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It is tempting to see Joseph as righteous because he “does right by Mary”. But this version misses the story’s most powerful truth.
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To better understand the birth of Jesus in Matthew, we have to go back to the genealogy. A messy, cool bit of surprise and wonder.
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Three thousand years ago, an unremarkable boy grew into a remarkable king. He was a shepherd and musician, smaller than his brothers. And yet this boy took down Goliath, survived persecution from the first King of Judah, and he became the great king to unite the divided kingdoms. Two hundred years later, they’re divided again and it’s…
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a homily for Advent 4A Text: Matthew 1:18-25 “Don’t be afraid” The most common phrase Jesus utters in His ministry is some variation of “don’t be afraid”. So often, the disciples are in the midst of something really hard, something truly frightening. Like Jesus appearing to them in the boat, rocked by storms and He…