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		<title>(Sunday III &#8212; B)  The Call of the Fishermen</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2012/01/sunday-iii-b-the-call-of-the-fishermen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repent and believe in the Gospel!" </i> We hear this admonition during Ash Wednesday as a reminder that it should be one of the characteristics of the pilgrim Church's lifestyle.  The Church must always be on the way of conversion.  Conversion is turning to God in fidelity and love.  In the beginning of his ministry, a ministry carried out in the shadow of the Cross, Jesus calls four fishermen who would later on become members of his core group.  In these four fishermen, we see the first fruits of Jesus' preaching.  Peter and Andrew, James and John -- all four will later on become apostles and martyrs for the Gospel of Christ]]></description>
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		<title>Visitors from the East</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/12/visitors-from-the-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany Sunday is about the glory of God shining in Christ. &#34;Epiphany&#34; comes from the Greek &#34;epi&#34; and &#34;phanein&#34; which means &#34;to shine on&#34;. The glory of God shines forth through Jesus whose birth we celebrate. The gospel selection is from Mateo 2:1-12, a traditional reading associated with the episode of the visit of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday XXXII &#8212; A)  Living Wisely</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/10/sunday-xxxii-a-living-wisely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the parable of the ten virgins the five wise virgins were able to join the wedding banquet precisely because they were wise.  "Wisdom" is one of the requirements of the life of faith.  We were baptized, that is, enlightened by the Wisdom of God Himself -- Jesus Christ.  ]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday XXXI &#8212; A)  Be Humble Servants of the Lord</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 23 is the judgment that Jesus utters against the scribes and the Pharisees.  It begins with an admonition to respect the authority of those sitted on the chair of Moses but not to follow their example, and ends up with a lament on Jerusalem, the symbol of resistance to God's will epitomized in the external piety of the scribes and Pharisees.  The 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) highlights Matthew 23:1-12 and Jesus' command that his disciples be humble servants.  Love for adulation or ambition should not characterize them.  Their greatness should be in their humility and desire to be like the Servant of Yahweh.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday XV &#8212; A) The Sower, the Seed and the Earth</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/06/sunday-xv-a-the-sower-the-seed-and-the-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God's Word is efficacious (see reading from Isaiah 55).  It carries out whatever God wills.  "Word of God" is first of all Christ Himself, the tradition of the apostles, and thirdly, the Scriptures.  Scriptures is "word of God" in the liturgical assembly; the Church is its home.  When we read and meditate on the Scriptures with the Church, we become the ones who carry out God's will when we allow ourselves to be under His reign and create in our world a space where His reign is realized.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday XIV &#8212; A)  Come to Me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/06/sunday-xiv-a-come-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/06/sunday-xiv-a-come-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi, the themes for this Sunday's gospel selection gives us texts that can remind us of the themes of the previous feast-day celebrations.  And the verses of the gospel selection are also easy to memorize.  These verses open to us the mind of the Lord who reveals Himself here as "the Son".  It is only by being like him -- as a child of the Father -- that we can truly appreciate what the Father wants for His children.]]></description>
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		<title>(Ascension Sunday &#8212; A)  Make Disciples of All Nations</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/05/ascension-sunday-a-make-disciples-of-all-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/05/ascension-sunday-a-make-disciples-of-all-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During these past Sundays, the liturgy has been giving us glimpses of the Ascension of Christ and the Descent of the Holy Spirit.  On Ascension Sunday, we celebrate Christ's return to the right hand of the Father and his installation as Lord.  He has not really abandoned His Church; His Ascension marks a new relationship to the Church and to the world.  Christ has become Head of the Church and the first-born of a new humanity redeemed by His Blood]]></description>
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		<title>(Easter III &#8212; A)  The Walk to Emmaus</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/04/easter-iii-a-the-walk-to-emmaus/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/04/easter-iii-a-the-walk-to-emmaus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of two disciples walking to Emmaus is a story of conversion.  Jerusalem, in the gospel of Luke, is the place of salvation.  That is why when the two disciples walk away from Jerusalem they were walking away from salvation.  In returning to Jerusalem they also go back to salvation by listening to the proclamation of Peter.  What made this change this possible?  The Risen Lord who opened their eyes, first through the reading of the Scriptures and second, through the breaking of the bread.]]></description>
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		<title>(Passion Sunday &#8212; A)  Behold Your King!</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/03/passion-sunday-a-behold-your-king/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/03/passion-sunday-a-behold-your-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passion Sunday is so-called because it is the first time in Lent where we proclaim the account of the Passion of the Lord.  It is also called Palm Sunday because it is the time when we commemorate the Lord's final entrance into Jerusalem.  With the proclamation of the Passion, we anticipate the Paschal Triduum, the climax of our preparations for Easter.]]></description>
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		<title>(Lent II &#8212; A)  The Transfiguration</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/lent-ii-a-the-transfiguration/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/lent-ii-a-the-transfiguration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Sunday of Lent reminded us of the Christian combat we pledged to join during our baptism.  During this second Sunday, we are invited to look into another aspect of our baptism:  our assimilation into Christ.  When we were baptized we were claimed through the sign of the cross for the resurrection.  To the disciples who have not gotten over the shocking statements of Jesus regarding discipleship, the transfiguration is a consoling event reassuring them that suffering and death is not the last word.]]></description>
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		<title>(Lent I &#8212; A)  Tempted in the Desert</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/lent-i-a-tempted-in-the-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/lent-i-a-tempted-in-the-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Ash Wednesday, we began the discipline of Lent, our yearly preparation for the renewal of our baptismal vows.  For this first Sunday of Lent we are reminded of our three-fold rejection of Satan, the Ancient Enemy.  The Lord empowers us to live our baptismal vows in his victory over Satan in the desert.  We are invited therefore to make His victory our own.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday IX &#8211; A) Listening and Doing</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/sunday-ix-a-listening-and-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/sunday-ix-a-listening-and-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Law of Moses is to the Jew, the Torah of the Messiah is for the Christian. With Matthew 7:21-27, we come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount but also we get a warning regarding the way we receive the words of the Lord. Just as it is foolish to build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday VIII &#8212; A)  Seek First the Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/sunday-viii-a-seek-first-the-kingdom/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/sunday-viii-a-seek-first-the-kingdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Jesus told the crowds "blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", he also tells them not to seek after wealth that perish and get destroyed.  He tells them instead to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and they will be taken care of like the lilies of the field and the birds of the air.  Jesus preaches no gospel of prosperity, he preaches the gospel of the kingdom of God where those are poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for what is right are declared blessed because of a future that has been reserved for them by the Father in heaven.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday VII &#8212; A)  Be Perfect as Your Heavenly Father is Perfect</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/02/sunday-vii-a-be-perfect-as-your-heavenly-father-is-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus wants us to take his words as expressions of the Father's will and the measuring stick by which we check whether we are being perfect as the Father is perfect .]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday VI &#8212; A)  Fidelity and Righteousness</title>
		<link>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/01/sunday-vi-a-fidelity-and-righteousness/</link>
		<comments>http://bws.biblista.net/2011/01/sunday-vi-a-fidelity-and-righteousness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew presents Jesus as the New Moses who points out to the People of God the Way of Righteousness.  In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs his listeners how to be faithful to God's Law.  After telling them that they are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, Jesus tells his audience that to be so they should have a "righteousness that surpasses that of the scribes and the Pharisees." ]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday V &#8212; A)  You Are the Light of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Sundays ago, we read about the light that has begun to shine on those who dwell in darkness.  In Matthew's mind, that light is Jesus.  Today, Jesus tells his listeners that they are the "light of the world".  In a way, the righteous Jew was also called "light" insofar as he reflects the light of the Torah (cf. Psalm 112).  But the Christian is light of the world when he reflects the light that is Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday IV &#8212; A)  Blessed Are You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week's reading about the fulfillment of the prophesy of Isaiah about the light that dawns upon those who live in desperation and hopelessness is followed up by the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount.  True happiness (or "blessedness") is something that belongs to God's future, but it is given as a foretaste to those who have learned to put their trust in God.  The people whom Jesus calls "blessed" are those who have learned that only in God's reign can there be peace, the wholeness, that everyone desires.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday III &#8212; A) That They Who Sit in Darkness May See A Great Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liturgy offers us two readings:  the longer form (Matthew 4:12-23) and a shorter one (Matthew 4: 18-23).  The shorter reading focuses on the first disciples as the first fruits of Jesus' preaching.  The longer form places the call of the first disciples within a bigger context: the fulfillment of the prophetic oracle from Isaiah 9.]]></description>
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		<title>Unless You Repent and Become Like A Child (Feast of the Sto. Ni&#241;o)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Feast of the Santo Ni&#241;o de Cebu makes us recall one of the events that preceded the formal evangelization of the Philippines in 1565, the discovery of the statue given by the Magellan expedition to Queen Juana of Cebu by a sailor of the Legazpi expedition.  The image was subsequently placed under the protection of the first missionaries to the Philippines, the Augustinians led by Fray Martin de Rada and Fray Andres de Urdaneta,  who came with the team of Legazpi.   It is now housed in the Basilica del Santo Ni&#038;ntildeo of Cebu.]]></description>
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		<title>(Sunday I &#8212; A)  This is My Beloved Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angfrayle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord begins Ordinary Time. The gospel reading from Matthew 3 gives us the account of the Lord&#8217;s baptism at the Jordan. Matthew&#8217;s particular contribution is to point out that John baptized Jesus not by reason of superiority, but because it was the duty assigned to him by God. [...]]]></description>
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