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B: 33rd Sun of OrdTime (18 Nov 2018) - THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA - Mk 13:24-32
There are 24 letters in the Koine Greek Alphabet, beginning with Alpha and ending with Omega. Validating this is a common phrase in the...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 32nd Sun of OrdTime (11 Nov 2018) - DESOLATION OF WIDOWS - Mk 12:38-44
She has nothing… The poor widow in our gospel offered to the temple treasury only the small sum of two small copper coins but was, in...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 31st Sun of OrdTime (4 Nov 2018) - WITH ALL THAT WE HAVE - Mk 12:28-34
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might (Deut 6:5)”. “And you shall love the...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 30th Sun of OrdTime (28 Oct 2018) - RECOVERING THEIR NAMES - Mk 10:46-52
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet” (cf. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). Quite...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 29th Sun of OrdTime (21 Oct 2018) - THE DANGER OF DICHOTOMIZING - Mk 10:35-45
“Are you able to drink the cup that I drink?” (Mk 10:38) This verse is rendered in the Latin Vulgate as “potestis bibere calicem quem ego...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 28th Sun of OrdTime (14 Oct 2018) - THE BANE AND BOON OF WEALTH - Mk 10:17-30
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God” (Mk 10:25). This quote is...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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B: 27th Sun of OrdTime (7 Oct 2018) - CLINGING TO THE FAMILIES - Mk 10:2-16
Our gospel today presents a situation when Jesus was asked by some Pharisees, to put him to the test, whether divorce is lawful as it was...
Rex Fortes
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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