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Friends in Low Places

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 19, 2025
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Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Amos 8: 4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2: 1-8 (RM) or 1-7 (RCL); Luke 16: 1-13…

Bridging the Past: Lest We Forget

Post author:Claudia Stecker
Post published:September 15, 2025
Post category:History Social Justice
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This past week, I have been at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat and conference center in Madison, Connecticut, on the shores of Long Island Sound (pictured above). One of the popular…

The Sheep and the Coin

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 12, 2025
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Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost C Readings: Exodus 32: 7-11, 13-14 (RM) or 7-14 (RCL); Psalm 51; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke…

Dare to Dream a Million Dreams

Post author:Petite Lao
Post published:September 8, 2025
Post category:Divine Missions Reflections
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I write this blog with gratitude as I receive news of the successes of Menubu Dulangan women who have been to Delesan Kailawan, an RNDM ministry in the Philippines with…

The True Cost of Discipleship

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:September 5, 2025
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Reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time / Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost C Readings: Wisdom 9: 13-18b (RM) or Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 (RCL); Psalm 90 or 1; Philemon: 9-10,…

Does Your Country Have an Appetite for Trumpism?

Post author:Susan Smith
Post published:September 1, 2025
Post category:Our Times and Culture Social Justice
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There is hardly a night goes by in Aotearoa New Zealand, when the 47th president of the “dis” United States of America does not appear on our TV. I think…

Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:August 29, 2025
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Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost C Readings: Sirach 3: 17-18, 20, 28-29 (RM) or Sirach 10: 12-18 (RCL); Psalm 68 or 112;…

A Global Citizen of the Amaryllis (Amaryllidaceae) Family

Post author:Wendy MacLean
Post published:August 25, 2025
Post category:Food and Gardening
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An Essential Ingredient Worldwide If you have an undemanding friend who always comes through for you and adds lots of flavour to your life, then you will understand garlic! Equally…

Inclusivity is of God

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:August 22, 2025
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Reflection for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost C Readings: Isaiah 66: 18-21(RM) or 58: 9b-14 (RCL); Psalm 117 or 103; Hebrews 12: 5-7, 11-13…

The Taste of Things: Science as Prophecy

Post author:Sandra Stewart
Post published:August 18, 2025
Post category:Our Times and Culture Science Technology
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In our day, science both radically amazes and deeply frightens. Where will AI take us? Is genderfluidity even possible? Where will progress take us and who really is in charge?…