This third Sunday of Lent we read the Gospel of John Chapter 4. It is the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. It is the first of three accounts chosen from John’s Gospel which are selected in Lent for the themes of conversion, baptism, and new life. Let me give this …
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Link to Page 49 of the latest Vermont Catholic Magazine As promised… brief follow up article on “what does the word ‘Mass” means.”
Blessed memorial of Saint Athanasius. John 1 says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Back in the 4th century A.D., the heretic Arius used Biblical references to Sophia/Wisdom to say that the Word/Logos was an angelic creature: not God. The Logos, said Arius, was …
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