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St. Francis of Assisi Parish

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is located at 
2250 E. Stadium Blvd (between Packard & Washtenaw) 
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 


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Friday, November 20
What do you call holy?

Human beings seem to have a natural desire to build, to raise monuments and dwellings, even for God. The trouble is that building a house for what is sacred may suggest having domesticated what is boundless. Once we believed we’ve "tamed" the holy, we have reversed the roles of Creator and creature. This presumption obviously troubled Jesus because all four gospels tell the story of him losing his temper and forcefully expelling those who had turned temple into marketplace. On the other hand, in American culture the marketplace seems to have become our temple, and the simple, practical business of buying and selling a sacred ritual conducted in templelike malls and churchlike banks. We do well to consider what we have enshrined as sacred in our lives.

Today’s readings: 1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59; Luke 19:45-48

"My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers."

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