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Monday, May 22, 2023

Great video on Mass celebrated "Ad Orientem"

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Monday, May 8, 2023

LIFE! 5th Sunday of Easter, 2023 at Saint John Cantius

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  Jesus is LIFE! – Homily at St. John Cantius for the 5 th Sunday of Easter, 2023   I heard a few people coming into Church this mornin...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Good Shepherd 2023

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Good Shepherd 2023   Jesus as the Good Shepherd is an image and reality of God that the world desperately needs to hear at this particul...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

POWERFUL video from Dove on Eating Disorders and Social Media

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Saturday, April 15, 2023

Divine Mercy 2023

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  Divine Mercy Sunday “Let us also go to die with Him!”   As I was reading the Gospel this year for the 5 th Sunday of Lent…I noticed s...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Easter Tuesday, 2023 "Do not touch me?"

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  Homily for Easter Tuesday, 2023 - "Do not touch me?"   It is not the case that Jesus does not want anyone to touch him.   He...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Holy Thursday 2023

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  Holy Thursday 2023   I have heard it a lot from various people inside and outside the Catholic Church that the Mass should be much mor...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Psalm 14 on Prayer and Fear

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 I was praying the Liturgy of the Hours recently, and a line from Psalm 14 really struck me. "They never pray to the Lord See how they ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Latin in the Mass

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 One of the 4 Pillar documents of the 2nd Vatican Council, the document governing revisions to the Mass, (Sacrosanctum Conclilium) in paragr...

Mass "Ad Orientem"?

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Mass "Ad Orientem" (The Priest Facing the East) or, as it is typically referred to falsely as "The priest celebrating Mass wi...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

4th Sunday of Lent, 2023 - "Light and Darkness of Soul"

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  4 th Sunday of Lent – “Light and Darkness of Soul”   A theme that we hear throughout all of the readings for this Sunday is physical ...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Third Sunday of Lent, 2023

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Jesus tells the woman at the well in today’s Gospel that “the hour is coming when people will worship the Father in Spirit and truth”   ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

2nd Sunday of Lent, 2023

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  2 nd Sunday of Lent, 2023 “Don’t Chase Mountaintop Experiences”   It is normal, on a human level, to crave mountain top experiences w...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Litany of Humility - Homily for the First Sunday of Lent, 2023

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  The Litany of Humility – Homily for the First Sunday of Lent 2023   In our first reading today, we see Satan tempting our first parent...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Suffering for Doing What is Right

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"W hat credit is there for you if you are patient when you are beaten for doing what is wrong?  But if you are patient when you suffer ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Ash Wednesday 2023

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  The God of the Old Testament is some times thought of wrongly as an angry God.   But in light of that, in case there is any doubt in anyon...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Homily for Saint Peter Damien, 2023

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  Today, the Church honors Saint Peter Damien, who is a doctor of the Church.   As with most saints, he preferred to live a life of prayer a...
Monday, February 20, 2023

"Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" homily for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2023

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  “Be Perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect” A lot of us hear that and think that Jesus does not REALLY mean we should be perfect…but...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

"Envy" a homily for Monday, February 13th, 2023

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“The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not.  Cain greatly resented this and was crestfall...
Monday, February 13, 2023

"Upping the Bar" - Homily for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 2023

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  “Upping the Bar” – Homily for the 6 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2023 In our Gospel today, Jesus says I have come not to abolish the law...
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