Homily for the XV Sunday Through the Year Parish Church of St. John the Baptist 12 July 2015 God is able to bring light out of even the darkest of situations, and we saw an example of that recently in the church shooting tragedy in South Carolina. At a court hearing a few days after […]
Read more "Repentance: The heart of the Gospel"Homily for the XIV Sunday Through the YEar 5 July 2015 Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, New Haven “I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” Thus St. Paul speaks to us in today’s epistle. Persecutions. (PAUSE) […]
Read more "Suffering Persecution with Love: A response to the Supreme Court decision on “same-sex marriage”"Rev. Royce V. Gregerson 12th Sunday Through the Year 21 June 2015 The sea of Galilee, upon which the scene from this Sunday’s Gospel takes place, is really a lake, much smaller even than the Great Lakes of the Midwestern United States. However, it is prone to quickly developing storms that would have caught the […]
Read more "Sin Is Not Inevitable: The battle against temptation"Sermon for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (My First Mass of Thanksgiving) 6 June 2015 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Fort Wayne A priest of our diocese tells a story about a trip he made to China. He was visiting Beijing and he and some others had hired a local man to show them around. […]
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