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Barbara Reid, O.P., is the president of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Carroll Stuhlmueller, C.P. Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at the C.T.U.
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Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (C), Aug. 15, 2010
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The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.
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The Gospel today shows us in parable form what the “greed that is idolatry” looks like.
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Sometimes we need to be helped out of our rationalizations for not doing what our listening heart prompts us to do.
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), June 13, 2010