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Offensive Jesus

“But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, ‘Does this offend you?” John 6:61 In our day and age I feel we’ve gotten a bit accustomed to the offensiveness of Jesus.  The original slap-in-the-face … Continue reading

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Exhaltation of the Holy Cross

Today in the life of the church we celebrate not a person so much as a thing: the cross.  The liturgical color for today is red, the color for martyrs.  We celebrate the Holy Cross today because back in 335 … Continue reading

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