Category: Father Soc – Everyday Jesus

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 8,311 total views This Gospel teaches us about prayer. First, the friends of the paralytic and the paralytic never said a word to each other. Yet, even if they never said a word to each other, the gesture of taking him to Jesus and wanting him to be healed was in itself a prayer. The first

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 7,637 total views How is love shown? First, by intention. Second, by verbal expression. Third is by action. In other words, we can love people in our minds, and nobody knows about that love except God and the one who loves. We can also show good deeds by our words. So from the mind, the expression

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 6,737 total views There is a drive in us that wants to understand as much as we can. We do not like things we cannot understand. We don’t like people we cannot figure out. As much as possible, we want to figure out things. We want to analyze things. We want to understand. Truth is, is

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 5,818 total views The Gospel is not only about words and actions. That would be an easy homily. The Gospel for today is not only to distinguish between the power of actions and the uselessness of words. The parable for today is about conversion. One son thought that conversion was an event. When one says “yes,”

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 4,582 total views In a Chinese restaurant, my friends and I were offered the customary fortune cookie after a hearty meal. I don’t believe in them, but for the fun of it, I took one and broke it. Inside, there was a slip of paper that said, “To remember is to understand.” I just tried to

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 3,658 total views There is an inborn drive in us to want to be distinctive, to be competitive, and to be lavishly admired. Where do we get that? We get that from school. We get that from the culture of professionalism. We get that from the culture of ascending our career ladder as high as we