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CARRYING the CROSS: SUFFERING, SICKNESS, and SACRIFICE

“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). With these words, Jesus makes sacrificial suffering a condition of Christian discipleship. He says this right after his first passion prediction: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsMarch 20, 2019 ago
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LET US GO to BETHLEHEM to SEE

We are all familiar with the manger scene. Mary and Joseph kneel by the baby Jesus in the manger with the ox and ass in the stable. They are surrounded by shepherds below and angels above with magi approaching and the star shining in the sky. It is the scene Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsDecember 27, 2018 ago
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“GAUDETE!” ADVENT REJOICING in the MIDST of SORROW

The season of Advent, and Gaudete Sunday in particular, invites us to rejoice. In Year C, our readings on Gaudete Sunday include a passage from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Philippians in which he exhorts his readers, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again, Rejoice! . . Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsDecember 16, 2018 ago
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THE HEALING POWER of the CROSS

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” So says Saint Paul to the Christians of Corinth (1 Cor 1:18). The message of the cross is the power of God because God acts Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsSeptember 16, 2018 ago
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REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING: JESUS’ PASSION and OUR PASSOIN

Every year we celebrate Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. We hear the account of the Lord’s Passion from one of the four gospels. As we listen to this account of the agony, arrest, torture, crucifixion, death and burial of the Lord Jesus, we are, as people of faith, aware Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsApril 1, 2018 ago
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HOME for CHRISTMAS in the FAMILY of GOD

Everybody wants to be home for Christmas. Everybody wants to spend Christmas with family. But some people can’t be home or don’t have family. Some people are homeless or feel homeless, especially at Christmas time. Some people are sick and estranged from home at a hospital or nursing care facility. Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsDecember 24, 2017 ago
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CRIPPLED by ILLNESS; RUNNING to MEET the LORD

The patients I encounter in my health care ministry are not, for the most part, runners. Many of them can walk, others have hopes of walking or even running again, and some, sadly, must accept that their ambulatory days are behind them. For all these people, however, and for every Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsDecember 3, 2017 ago
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THE SAINTS of HEALTH CARE

Every year on the first of November, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of All Saints, the great commemoration of all the holy men and women whom God has raised up throughout the two thousand year history of the Church. On November 7th, we Dominicans and those who share our charism Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsNovember 12, 2017 ago
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HEALTH CARE and the HOLY SPIRIT

Every year at Pentecost the Church commemorates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary as they gathered in Jerusalem awaiting the “promise of the Father” (Acts 1:4): the gift of the Holy Spirit that continues to be poured out upon the disciples of Jesus. Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsJune 4, 2017 ago
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O HAPPY FAULT!

On Easter Sunday the Church is full of rejoicing! That rejoicing is expressed in many ways, but never more beautifully than in the Exultet, the Easter Proclamation, which is sung at the solemn beginning of the Easter Vigil. In the Exultet, Mother Church unites with all heaven and earth in Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsApril 16, 2017 ago
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SUFFERING with JESUS who SUFFERED for US

Throughout our lives, and most especially in the season of Lent, the Church invites us to reflect upon and more fully share in the sufferings of Jesus. The practice of praying the Stations of the Cross is a characteristic of this Christian reflection. As we pray the Stations of the Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsApril 9, 2017 ago
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LENTEN PENANCE: SUFFERING in UNION with CHRIST

Throughout the forty days of Lent, the Church invites us to practice penance by praying, fasting, and giving alms. As the gospel reading for Ash Wednesday (see Matt 6:1-6, 16-18) reminds us, that penance is not meant to be a matter of merely external observances, but is to proceed from Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsMarch 5, 2017 ago
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SHARING the CHRISTMAS GIFT

Christmas is a time of giving. It is the celebration of the greatest gift of all: Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given to us at his birth on Christmas day. One of the ways we celebrate that great gift is by the giving and receiving of lesser gifts. Christmas Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 25, 2016 ago
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FACING ILLNESS and DARING to HOPE

For he assumed at his first coming the lowliness of human flesh, and so fulfilled the design you formed long ago, and opened the way to eternal salvation, that, when he comes again in glory and majesty and all is at last made manifest, we who watch for that day Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 27, 2016 ago
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CARE for the SICK and REIGN with CHRIST the KING

I was ill and you cared for me. (Matt 25:36) So the king will say, seated on his glorious throne with all his angels in attendance and all the nations assembled before him: some on his right and some on his left. The king will speak these words to those Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 20, 2016 ago
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