Category: Homilies
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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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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. […]