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Amos the Prophet

Amos the Prophet
If you’ve ever known anyone who says, “I tell it like it is”, you know someone like the Amos, the prophet we are hearing from this week.  Amos didn’t mince any words in describing the sins of the Israelite’s leaders or the destruction that God had planned for them if they didn’t reform their lives.…
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St. Germaine Cousin

St. Germaine Cousin
Sickly and deformed and abused by her stepmother, she could be called the “Cinderella saint." Her name was Germaine Cousin, a child of 16th-century France. Born with a right arm that was deformed and partially paralyzed, Germaine had a disease called scrofula, which caused terrible, unsightly abscesses across her neck. Worst of all, she was abused by…
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Humble Thyself

Humble Thyself
Last week and this week, except for tomorrow, we have been, and will continue to hear, stories from the first and second Book of Kings.  You may have noticed how challenging the names of these ancient kings have been for lectors to pronounce! It has been said that if the kingships of Saul and David…
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Juneteenth

Juneteenth
Tomorrow is drop off day for our annual Rummage Sale and I wonder how many people may be motivated to donate their household items when they heard Jesus’s advice to us today in the gospel: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.”…
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