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Shared Homily Starter   - 14 October 2012 First Reading: Wisdom of Solomon 7:7-11 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90 Second Reading: The Letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews 4:12-13 Gospel: Mark 10:17-30 Today's First reading talks about the value of wisdom; how King Solomon prayed for understanding and God graced him with the Spirit of Wisdom.    The story of the two women claiming to be the mother of a baby and Solomon's wise ploy to determine the baby's true mother always came to mind when I thought of Solomon and Wisdom. But last week, when I was here for Ric's thanksgiving service, Ric spoke of the value of the present moment.   After listening, I began to expand my thinking on wisdom.   What I mean is, that instead of praying for understanding or wisdom to come to us in some future time, we should be awake to the wisdom that is given to us in the moments of our every day lives.   Let me give you an example, two weeks ago at our First Natio...

30 September 2012 First Reading:   Numbers 11:25-29 Responsorial Psalm:   Psalm 19 Second Reading:    James 5:1-6 Gospel:   Mark 8:27-35 When I first looked at today’s readings, I was a bit taken aback because my first thoughts were of our Church.  Then, for my course at school, I had to research the new immigration and refugee law.  This caused me to look at the readings in a broader light.  I found that the readings really spoke to both of these issues.  I’m not going to say a lot today but I want to give you few things to think about. In the first reading, Moses had called a meeting of the elders.  At that meeting God endowed the elders with the Spirit and they were given the gift of prophesy, which would better be understood in this instance, as the gift of preaching.  Joshua is upset because the elders Eldad and Medad, had not gone to the meeting, yet he finds them preaching in the camp.   H...