Category: Homilies
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Minding What Matters
1st Sunday of Advent I saw a cartoon online earlier this week. A family is seated at the Thanksgiving dinner table with heads bowed in prayer, and a huge roasted bird sits at the center of the table. Actually, it’s the only dish on the table. And the little girl asks, “Why aren’t we this […]
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Beyond Castles & Cathedrals
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with castles and cathedrals. It didn’t matter whether they lay in ruins or were still in active use. The renderings of these grand and imposing structures that I first saw were probably in children’s storybooks of tales about […]
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A Life We Can Never Imagine
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time With the 2016 presidential election cycle coming to a head this week, the candidates and their surrogates have been yelling louder and more insistently pressing their case before large crowds all across the nation. And many of us are just thankful that it will all be over soon. (1 day, 20 […]
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Outcast
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time It looks like we have to talk about it today. It’s not a subject I know a lot about, so I had to do some research. And I can tell you right now, you will wish after this you did not know as much about the subject as I have […]
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Election Cycle Blues
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time I have an app on my phone that counts down the days to November 8. 36 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes, 43 seconds, and counting. This is only the 9th presidential election cycle of my life, and as it has with many Americans, I am left wondering what future elections […]
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Reasonable Expectations
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Some years back when I was a newly-ordained priest teaching at an all-boys Catholic high school in New Orleans, my students would confront me on occasion with outrageous statements of disbelief. “You’re a priest. You can’t do that.” “And what exactly am I not supposed to do?” I would ask. […]
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