“What must we do?!” This is cry of the repentant, the penitent; the cry of the men in our first reading today who were duped by the Temple priests into forming a mob and calling for the death of Christ. S. Peter, who is himself not shy of acknowledging that he had denied Christ (threeContinue reading “Brothers, what must we do? (Sunday IV of Easter)”
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Blessed are they (Solemnity of All Saints)
“And I saw a second angel coming up from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to lay waste land and sea; ‘Do not lay waste land or sea or wood, until we have put a seal onContinue reading “Blessed are they (Solemnity of All Saints)”
The leprosy of sin (Sunday VI of Ordinary time)
“A man may lose the hair on his crown, and still be clean; may lose the hair on his forehead, and still be clean, despite his baldness. But if in the bald patch on crown or forehead a white or reddish tinge is shewing, the priest who finds it there will hold him unclean beyondContinue reading “The leprosy of sin (Sunday VI of Ordinary time)”
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