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15th Sunday of the Year A
…Energy Model for the Rest of the World https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/tiny-island-off-coast-maine-could-be-renewable-energy-model-for-rest-world-180974415/ and https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-209-how-does-a-supercapacitor-work Summary of articles: A remote island community off Maine, attempting to be self-sufficient in renewable energy, needed to overcome…
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
…Other factors that influence the size of our circles of care and cooperation; we are not biologically pre-determined. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0158 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/science/dunbars-number-debunked.html Homily Outline Combining Resources Homily outline from the perspective of…
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
…think? Inattentional blindness: www.simplypsychology.org/inattentional-blindness.html, and https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/but-did-you-see-the-gorilla-the-problem-with-inattentional-blindness-17339778/ Summary of Articles: Inattentional blindness is a psychological way of describing the phenomenon of a person failing to notice something that is completely visible…
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Day): Mass at Dawn
…“…eternity shut in a span.” On the ever expanding universe, see these short articles and videos : https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/webscope/activities/pdfs/galaxiesT.pdf https://nineplanets.org/questions/how-big-is-the-universe/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7yFDb1zOA https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-it-should-be https://indiana.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nviu-sci-hubbleexpansion/hubble-and-the-expanding-universe/ Love – in human terms – entails some…
Twelfth Sunday of the Year A
…exploring these changes: Homily Outline Combining Resources Preaching outline combining the themes and resources: The first reading from Jeremiah, the Psalm, and (possibly) the reading from Matthew could be framed…
Master of Arts (Theology)
…French or German before they graduate. Research track students also complete and MA thesis paper, and they prepare ten as opposed to eight comprehensive exam questions. Students on the general…
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
…personified as a woman for example in the book of Proverbs, “She is more precious than corals, and no treasure of yours can compare with her. Long life is in…
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle A
…in Humans,” the first sense to develop in the womb, and key to our well-being. 8-minute video by psychologist Dacher Keltner about touch as a fundamental act of compassion. Companioning…
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
…later to interpret situations and make decisions is something that we get only faint glimpses of in the animal world: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/surprising-complexity-animal-memories/589420/ Evolutionarily, we cannot envision future possibilities if we are…