"We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of Wonder."

                                                                                                                                   ~~~ ST. GREGORY THE GREAT ~~~

St. Gregory the Great, pope & doctor 

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1 Corinthians 4:6b-15

Learn by this example

 'It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.'
he was a man of integrity. John the Baptist was beheaded because he spoke truth to power.
Truly,  The king was ‘much perplexed’ whose conscience pulls him one way.
But because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.

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１Corinthians 2:1-5

When I came to reveal to you he

All is made new by God who meets us where we are.
The old wineskins of the old Testament did not manage to accommodate the new wine of Jesus’s message.
"But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast." 

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1Corinthians 4:1-5

 Let everyone then see us

“When you give a feast, invite instead the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind.”

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Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29

 My son,

Jesus commands Peter to put out into the deep and let down the nets for a catch.
Here is a carpenter telling a professional fisherman how to do his job!
“Lord, show us where the fish are that You want us to catch, and we’ll cast the nets there.”

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1Corinthians 3:18-23

 Do not deceive yourselves.

He will judge between the righteous and evil when He returns as King.

St. Monica 

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１Corinthians 1:26-31

 Brothers and sisters,

Have the confidence to ask him for whatever you need.

I open myself to his compassion and let his heart shape mine.

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１Corinthians 3:1-9

  I could not, friends,

You must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.

We prepare for the Second Coming by increasing our testimony and conversion through daily righteousness.

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1 Corinthians 1:17-25

 For Christ did not

Jesus was challenged and resisted by the demons.
Because of his authority as the "Holy One of God", all evil is ultimately powerless before Jesus.
The demon then says, ”I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

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１Corinthians 2:10b-16

The Spirit probes everything,

The Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come” 

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1 Corinthians 1:1-9

From Paul,