Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand with Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, who said that faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary. Critics of religious say that faith is accepting things on the basis of no evidence; it’s believing any old nonsense; it’s naïveté; it’s superstition. But this has nothing to do with what the Bible means by faith.

Mass Readings:
First Reading — Wisdom 18:6-9
Psalm — Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22
Second Reading — Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
Gospel — Luke 12:32-48

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