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Homily by Grok

4th Sunday of Advent Dec 22, 2024 written by GrokGreetings, dear friends, on this blessed fourth Sunday of Advent! Here we are, just days away from the celebration of our Lord’s nativity, and today, I want to draw your hearts … Continue reading

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Let’s go to the lake!

2nd Sunday of Advent December 8, 2024Bar 5:1-9; Ps126: Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 “Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is … Continue reading

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Memories

1st Sunday of Advent December 1, 2024Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25; 1 Thes 3:12-:2; Lk 21:22-28, 34-26“Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This … Continue reading

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Bug eater

Third Sunday of Advent December 17, 2023Is 61: 1-2a, 10-11; Lk 1:46-48; I Thes 5: 16-24; Jn 1: 16-24“Davin, you’re a bug eater!”My father in-law, Papoo loved to say that to me.He used to say that I lived out in … Continue reading

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Gente Puente

1st Sunday of Advent December 3, 2023Is 63: 16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7; Ps 80; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mk 13:33-37Is he coming? Have you seen Dad? The children were on the lookoutThey were watching for their fatherHe was going to take them … Continue reading

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The Grace to Begin Again

These things have been written for a warning for us, for we are living at the end of the ages. (1 Corinthians 10:11)  Where has the time gone? Can you believe that we are already at the end of 2012? … Continue reading

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Timeout

Have you ever been “on fire” for God? Was He the only thing that you could think about? Did joy fill your heart, and it was all you could do to not sing out loud? I can remember a time … Continue reading

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Are You Ready?

Publisher: dwinger      Volume No.  4      Issue No 28       Date Dec. 20, 05     We have been getting ready for Christmas around the Winger household. Presents are being bought and wrapped, the manger scenes are displayed on the cabinet, and … Continue reading

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Finishing and Starting Again

Publisher: dwinger         Volume No. 6           Issue   No.26     Date Dec. 14, 07  Well, this semester is done and another will start soon. Today, I finished taking a final. Yesterday, I finished giving finals. Neither is necessarily easy or fun, but they … Continue reading

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Cross Carrying

Publisher: dwinger      Volume No.  2      Issue No 49       Date Dec. 18, 03   Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save … Continue reading

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