Fr Peter’s dive into 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 for this upcoming Sunday. Watch the video below:

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The Beatitudes: Everyone Is Rewarded Moses went up the mountain to receive the ten commandments. One and only one of the ten has a reward. Honor your father and mother, and you will have a long life. That is the megabucks of prizes in the ancient world because it was rare to die of old...

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The Happiest Words: Follow Me A couple asked me to preside at their wedding in a chapel in nowhere. I heard great things about map-quest, so I printed some directions and went off. I was encouraged and hopeful from the beginning. I took the Mass Pike and got off the right exit. I traveled for...

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Turn Your Anguish into a Love Story I want to tell you a love story. During the President Carter years, my foreman told me that there was no more carpentry work for the moment, but he had a friend who was a landscaper and needed some help. So the next day, I drove down Main Street...

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Seeing the Treasure The greatest archeological find, period, was the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls. Rich aristocrats who could read owned biblical scrolls. They had these scrolls because they wanted to learn more about God so they could make a difference in the world. When the Romans went to war with the Jews in...

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Are You Keeping Your New Year’s Resolution? The angel tells the shepherds that the sign of salvation will be an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. Why swaddling clothes? The baby has been in the fetal position for nine months, and the mother wants to ensure that the baby’s bones will...

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Made in His Image It says in John’s Gospel that no one has ever seen God. When Jesus was born, His mother held Him in her arms, and for the first time in history, a human could see God’s face. What did Mary see? She saw herself, “He has my eyes. God has my smile.” ...

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Listen to the Angels I used to go to work with Dad. That is when Dad talked to me about life. I was going to work with Dad in the truck when he told me about the secret places to fish along the canal. I was going to work with Dad in the truck when I...

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Seeing the Treasure The greatest archeological find, period, was the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls. Rich aristocrats who could read owned biblical scrolls. They had these scrolls because they wanted to learn more about God so they could make a difference in the world. When the Romans went to war with the Jews in...

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