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August 27, 2013
SPIRITUALITY
T he Valley Catholic
Fr. Brendan McGuire is pastor of Holy Spirit Parish and School and co-pastor of Our Lady of Refuge in San Jose. He is also one of the Vicars General of the Diocese of San Jose and responsible for the implementation of the Diocesan Pastoral Plan. Before being ordained a priest in 2000, Fr. Brendan was an executive in a technology company and still loves to use technology to reach people as a priest. He is a regular speaker throughout the country and one of his more popular sessions is on forgiveness.
Sunday, September 8, 2013 Commitment to the Team
At the first gathering of the high school football team, the coach gathered the squad and said, “Now, if you are not willing to live, eat, sleep and breathe football for the next season day and night, you may as well go home. I’m not interested in having you on the team.” We do not want to take the coach literally! After all we cannot actually eat football. We cannot breathe football.1 This is hyperbole; it is a well-known rhetorical device. In the Gospel of September 8, we hear Jesus use Semitic hyperbole; it was common in Jesus’ time. He does not literally want us to hate our mother, brother or sisters, nor does he necessarily want us to denounce everything to be his disciples. Jesus’ comm ??????????????????????????????????]??????????????????????????????????e???????????????????????????????)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????
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