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		<title>Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Mark 1:29-39   Everyone is looking for you, Jesus.   We don’t realize it most of the time.  When we feel good, and our work is meaningful, and our family is well, we forget how deeply we long to find Jesus as the suffering believers encountered him in today’s Gospel. But even just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on I Corinthians 7:32-35 St. Paul’s remarks today about the differences between those who are married and unmarried calls to mind the beautiful death last November of Sr.  Antonia Anthony, OSF.  She was killed by a young driver who ran a red light four blocks from her home. In her last moments Sr. Antonia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Sunday in Ordinary Time &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Jonah 3:1-5,10 Much of the humor in the Bible is lost on us today because it so culturally-conditioned.  But the passive, hypocritical Jonah in today’s first reading makes a great comic foil in any time. Have you read the Old Testament book of Jonah lately? Try it.  You’ll laugh at the guy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Sunday of Ordinary Time &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on John 1:35-42 It was about four in the afternoon.  Isn’t that interesting? The author of John’s Gospel thought it was important to notice the time of day that the two disciples left their community with John the Baptist and followed Jesus, to “see where he stayed”. And speaking of times of day, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thestoryandyou.com/2012/01/15/second-sunday-of-ordinary-time-cycle-b/</link>
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		<title>Solemnity of the Epiphany &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Matthew 2:1-12 And so we come back to the beautiful story of those wise men from the East.  And our questions arise as surely as the Star. How is it that they observed the Star at its rising?  Why did they, Gentiles who knew nothing of the promised Messiah, leave everything to seek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Luke 2:16-21 One Christmas Eve, while on pilgrimage to Israel, my husband and I took a memorable walk to Bethlehem from Shepherd’s Field.  This is the field that remembers the sacred place where the shepherds&#8212;that group who were considered so unclean that their testimony was not honored in court&#8212;saw the angel, who entrusted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solemnity of the Nativity &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on Luke 2:1-14 We were arguing when it happened.  We were keeping the night watch in the fields.  The new hire, the one who just got out of one of Herod’s prison dungeons, started leading the sheep away from the water.  But we wanted to spend the night there, drinking wine and telling stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Sunday of Advent &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year at this time I find myself thinking about a beautiful song about Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth, which of course occurs right after today’s Gospel account of the Annunciation. My favorite lyrics are the last two lines of the second stanza.  Here are the words, reprinted with permission from Sr. Miriam Therese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thestoryandyou.com/2011/12/17/fourth-sunday-of-advent-cycle-b/</link>
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		<title>Third Sunday of Advent &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most beautiful things about the liturgical year is the lovely way the Church ties all the mysteries of faith together.  This is especially poignant with the feasts that point to the Nativity.  For all kinds of interesting reasons that may have their roots in the earliest  Christian understanding of time, the celebration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thestoryandyou.com/2011/12/12/third-sunday-of-advent-cycle-b/</link>
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		<title>Second Sunday of Advent &#8211; Cycle B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on 2 Peter 3:8-14 I’m not comfortable with that second reading today, and maybe it’s because I’m taking it too literally.   The section from the Second Letter of Peter warns of the “day of the Lord”, and the fate that the heavens and earth will experience at the Second Coming. I don’t like the [...]]]></description>
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