healing
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No Limits
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a Sermon for Proper 19A Text: Matthew 18:21-35 Where we’ve been Ten years ago today, about this time, 4 hijacked airplanes were used as projectile missiles to cause dramatic and traumatic devastation. Three of them reached their targets and one was sent into the countryside. Many, including those aiding the victims of violence, died. Nearly…
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Bartimaeus
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5 min read
This Sunday was my first opportunity to preach at my new parish. And what gospel do I get, but one of the deepest, most revealing stories in Mark–and therefore one of the most difficult. But in my wrestling with this pericope, something was awoken within me. Something that still has me wrestling. My homily wasn’t…