Tom McKenna, CM
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Experiencing The Spirit’s Descent (Acts 10: 25-48)
When we meet love in our lives, we are experiencing The Spirit.
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Setting Out (Acts 9:1-20)
As far as beginnings go, we’d have to look far and wide to find something more dramatic than the one portrayed in chapter 9 of the Acts of the Apostles: Paul knocked over and blinded on that Damascus road.
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“First Generation Disciples”(John 10: 14-15)
“Handing on the tradition” is a phrase often connected with matters of faith.
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Living “As If”(Acts 4: Jn 20)
Where are the assurances that these claims about Jesus rising to new life have any substance?
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We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe
All of us have heard the phrase, “living in the past.” Usually it has a negative ring – – somebody missing out on the good things happening now because he or she lives on memories of a bygone day.
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Entering “The New Temple” (Jn 2:13-25)
“Dense” is a one-word description for people who have trouble seeing beneath the surface of things.
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (1 Cor: 10:31)
How is that the glory of God supplies motivation, gives the impetus for getting up and doing something?
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In Praise of Complaining! (Job 7:17; Mk 1: 29-31)
Job has the well-deserved reputation as a complainer. Throwing up his hands, he whines to God, “How long is this misery going to lasts, this drudgery, these troubled nights.” (Job 7:1-7)
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The Call: Where and What? (Mk 1:14-20)
God’s Call is a theme that runs all through the Scriptures. Where does God’s call occur and to what does it summon us?
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“Reaching Back”(Mark 1:11)
There’s a phrase which often enough appears in stories having to do with someone coming up against his or her limits.