Today's Homily

Wednesday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time
2 Cor. 9:6-11 & Mt. 6:1-6, 16-18
In living our Christianity Jesus does not want us to play to an audience. We should not have the motive of drawing people to ourselves who admire and applaud the good we do. The Christian life is not an on-stage performance. Jesus gives three examples of Christian acts upon which we should not...

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