Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 2, 2009

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 19, 2009

When illness lingers on and on with no relief or when death looms at the threshold of a child rsquo s life it can cause sufferers to take measures that are out of the ordinary In today rsquo s Gospel a synagogue official pleads with Jesus for his dying daughter This scene is unusual in that most

Have you ever done something you never thought you could do but could because someone else believed in you and urged you forward On the contrary have you found yourself hampered by others rsquo preconceived notions and lack of confidence in you In a certain sense these are the experiences of P

As youngsters we had ways of sealing the bond of friendship with our best friends We girls would exchange friendship rings pledging our undying loyalty to one another Our brothers would make a small cut on their finger and then mingle their blood with their buddy rsquo s to signify the unbreakab