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"Our ways are not God's ways. The road to heaven is a sliver."

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The lust for honor interrupts the great banquet that God wants us to enjoy. This is why Jesus interrupts the interruption in today's Gospel, urging people purposely to take the lowest place and to entertain only those who cannot repay the favor. We must free ourselves of the addiction to honor!

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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Please click the arrow below to play podcast.

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"Love people one Jesus at a time." - Mother Teresa

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Hospitality - ""Do not neglect hospitality, for through it, some unknowingly entertain angels."  ~Hebrews 13:2

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"...  no turning back, no turning back."

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Homily: The Holy Trinity

Three divine persons embody love. 

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How do you love?

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Theme: Heaven and earth will pass away, but God's mercy is endless.

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The two great symbols of the descent of the Holy Spirit are wind and tongues of fire.Wind is powerful, unpredictable, destructive, like the Spirit which seizes us and takes us where we would rather not go. Tongues of fire signal impassioned speech on behalf of the Good News, a willingness to announce the Gospel publicly and even in the face of opposition. With the whole church around the world, we pray on this great feast of Pentecost for the coming of that troublesome and wonderful Holy Spirit.

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The Ascension of the Lord

The feast of the Ascension is meant to awaken hope. In Jesus, risen from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father, our lowly human nature participates in the very life of God. In the light of the ascension,therefore, we are permitted to hope for a way of being, elevated and perfected beyond our imagining.

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Paul's Message Part II

Last week we explored the central teaching of St. Paul: to live in Christ Jesus. This week, we draw out four implications from this teaching: the corporate nature of the church, a sacramental imagination, the gifts of the Spirit, and the acknowledgement of Jesus as Lord. In emphasizing these themes, Paul gave shape to the whole of Christian theology through the ages.

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Paul's Message

"Last week we looked at the life and times of Paul, the person who, after Jesus himself, is the most influential figure in the formation of the Christian church. In this week's sermon, I look briefly at Paul's central teaching, which I identify as "being in Christ."" The phrase ""en Christo,"" in Christ,appears 83 times in the letters of Paul, indicating how central it is to the Apostle's teaching and preaching. Christ Jesus is a new energy field, a new power, a new way of being, and the idea, as far as Paul is concerned, is to get into it--so that ultimately you can say, with him,"it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me"

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Paul the Apostle
"During the Easter season, we are reading from the book of the Acts of the Apostles. Though John, Philip, Peter, and James are all featured in Acts, the ""star""of the text is clearly Paul, missionary and evangelist. Who was this extraordinarily important figure, the man that many say, after Jesus himself, was most influential on the development of Christianity? For the next three weeks, I will be exploring the life, thought, and work of Paul the Apostle."

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Despite the locked doors, the risen Jesus stands in the midst of the disciples. This is a beautiful icon of the Church, the community gathered around Jesus and filled with his spirit. When the Lord, first appears, Thomas is not there and hence does not believe. Only when he returns to the apostolic circle does he encounter Jesus and make his great confession. This detail reminds us that we see the risen Lord only in the church and through its mediation.

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In our second reading for this Sunday, St. Paul lays out his resumé. In terms of the Judaism of his time, Paul was about as accomplished as one could hope to be: he was a defender of the tradition, steeped in the wisdom of his people, and blameless under the law. But after seeing Jesus risen from the dead, Paul said that he counted all of those achievements as loss and refuse. So we, he implies, should not base our lives on our accomplishments, degrees, social status--but rather on Christ crucified and risen.

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"You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up, then God will show mercy to you."
~Proverbs 28:13


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"Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most memorable, carefully crafted, and inspiring stories ever told. In some ways, the whole of the Christian"thing"" is summed up in this narrative. We have a God who invites us into the dynamism of his own life, and who relentlessly pursues us even when, in our stupidity and sin, we refuse to respond to the invitation."

Bishop McDowell, An 'Abraham' figure that transfigured my life.

Father Rich Jones

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Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

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Grace comes from adversity.

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Listen to this podcast by Father Rich Jones after last Sunday's Mass to help you gain more insight into the homilies at your church. 

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"The readings for this weekend pose a blunt question: whom, finally, do you trust?" "Trust"" is meant here in an absolute sense. Where do you base your life? In God or in the things of this world? How you answer that question determines pretty much everything else."

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"The more you love, the more love asks of you."

Father Rich gives road maps for life’s journey in all his teachings tohelp guide people in their spiritual quest for holiness, truth,companionship, and greater intimacy with God.
He is currently serving as Administrator at Saint Joseph Parish in Coraopolis, Pa.

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Thank you for listening to the National Fellowship of Catholic Men Online Media Network.  Our mission is to encourage the conversion, formation and mobilization of Catholic men. For more information visit www.catholicmediaonline.org  .

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This is the podcast for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 31st, 2010) By Deacon Rick Cessar.