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Who’s the Judge & Who’s the Widow

Thomas Edison is famous for his inventions of the light bulb. We forget that he attempted the lightbulb 1,000 times unsuccessfully before prevailing. When a reporter asked him, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison said, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Our Lord and…

Lent is for Losers

February 25, 2024
Fr. Hovnan Demerjian
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The obvious deception here is that winning can’t be everything, by definition it is at most half of everything. The other half is losing, which our society tends to deny and avoids. But that’s not healthy, whole or rational. We will face as many losses in our life as wins; and the older we get…

Giving Up Original Sin for Lent

February 18, 2024
Fr. Hovnan Demerjian
Lent
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The problem with ‘original sin’ is that it starts the greatest story ever told in the middle, not the beginning. We did fall and allowed evil into the world, true, but that is chapter three of Genesis. Chapter one is when almighty God made everything before us, galaxies, earth, oceans, whales, quarks and leptons and…

Giving Up Lent for Lent

February 11, 2024
Fr. Hovnan Demerjian
Lent
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So if you want true Lent summed up in 250 characters or less, don’t go to twitter, go the beautiful and inspiring words of the Prophet Joel and go to them often. ‘Even now, says the lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; rend your hearts, not your…

Food Security

In his book entitled God’s Psychiatry, Charles Allen tells this story: As World War II was drawing to a close, the Allied armies gathered up many hungry orphans. They were placed rehabilitation centers where they were well-fed. But despite excellent care, they slept poorly-they were anxious and afraid. At some point a psychologist came up…

Expiration Dating

Our Gospel reading today shows us in a powerful way that if you want to get anywhere in life Jesus can get you there. And he can get you there fast. It is written that the disciples just starting rowing across the lake, a vast lake and when they saw Jesus immediately the boat reached…

Jesus the Missing Years

If the New Testament was a book like any other, we would say that it is badly written. It shows us nothing of the development of its main protagonist Jesus. We know nearly nothing about where he came from, how he was raised and was socialized. We know nothing about how his upbringing affected his…