Proverbs 31:10- 31    This week’s selection from Proverbs is a poem exclaiming of the valor the strength, the total reliability of a good woman.   Communities are rich when such a woman is present; she is the human manifestation of Lady Wisdom.  In Hebrew scripture this proverb is the most generous portrait of a woman.  Here, at the

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Proverbs 22;1-2, 8-9 ,22-23 Many of us know one or more of  the sayings in the ancient book of Proverbs, one of the “wisdom” collection of the Old Testament. Yet selections of the book are rarely heard in the Eucharist of today.  Writers may go to their bookshelves to find a proverb that illustrates a particular point.  Indeed,

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