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Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - October 7, 2018

Author: Megan Malamood

                                              Reflection for 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B) – October 7, 2018

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       In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus teaches the Pharisees about marriage by beginning with creation in the Book of Genesis. We’ve heard this passage many times and we’ll hear it again in both this Sunday’s first reading and Gospel: “God made them male and female. For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” No matter our state of life, we all can appreciate this deep form of union in which two become one, because not only is it beautiful, but it points to the communion God intends for all of us as well.

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Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - September 23, 2018

Author: Megan Malamood

                                                        Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - September 23, 2018  

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Singing Me Home

Author: Rosemary Pfaff

What is a home? How do you find a home, make a home, or come back to a home? These questions weighed down my thoughts as I made my first journey from San Antonio, Texas all the way to South Bend, Indiana to start my college…

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Bless the Corners: New Melleray Abbey to the Michigan City Prison

Author: Courtney Morin

If you have been wondering what precisely Christian unity looks like, I can recommend two stops you might make on your life’s journey. The first would be to New Melleray Abbey—a Trappist monastery in Iowa; the second would be to the Michigan City Prison—a maximum security facility in Indiana. Allow…

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Perfect in Weakness

Author: Greg Demet

As Folk Choir alumni surely know, there is a tradition in the Folk Choir going back who-knows-how-long known as “tenor names.” Essentially, when new tenors join the choir, the older tenors assign them a new name. This name…

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