Sunday's Homily:

What Is The Only Thing That Matters To You?

Sunday
of Week 17 in Ordinary Time in Year A
What is the meaning of your life? What is the note that strikes deep in your heart and brings all the other notes of your life into harmony? That one thing is the quest of your lifetime! Today's Gospel gives a clue to the answer. According to Jesus it should be your discovery of the Kingdom of...
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