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Mar 2025
15m 16s

The Heavenly Banquet

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, this Fourth Sunday of Lent gives us marvelous readings: the First Reading from the book of Joshua, the Second Reading from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, and the Gospel reading, which is the magnificent parable of the prodigal son from Luke. The correspondences between these three readings I think are quite striking, and they have to do wi ... Show More
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