No Sermon 9/18
We showed the video for the 30th Annual Bishop’s Appeal on Sunday, so I did not write or deliver a sermon.
Read more "No Sermon 9/18"Allowing God to Find Us
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” Our Lord presents us today with two practical examples of searching for and finding lost things. The second makes sense: A woman who has […]
Read more "Allowing God to Find Us"Setting the World on Fire
“If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire.” These words were written by St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th Century mystic from Italy, and are a fitting response to the words of our Lord in today’s Gospel: “I have come to set the world on fire, and how I […]
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“I guess you have to just make a leap of faith.” How often have we found ourselves saying or hearing these words, or something like them? Faith, to most of us, is the act you have to make when you just cannot understand, when rational thought fails to give an explanation. It seems a blind […]
Read more "Seeing is Not Believing"Building Bigger Barns: The dangers of greed
“I ain’t never seen a hearse with a luggage rack.” The words of this country song, even if not expressed with the grammatical cohesion that one could desire for the English language, ring true. Our earthly possessions are good for just that, for our life on earth, and that alone. At the end of our […]
Read more "Building Bigger Barns: The dangers of greed"Giving Good Gifts
It feels good to be asked for things. While sometimes we might grow impatient with people who are constantly asking for something from us, there is a satisfaction in knowing that someone else needs you. We all have a psychological need to be relied upon. This is why parents delight in giving gifts to their […]
Read more "Giving Good Gifts"The Eucharist as a sign of God’s Mercy
As we gaze upon the Most Holy Eucharist, the true Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, these words from Our Lord’s last discourse to His Apostles before His Passion in the Gospel according to St. John have a particular significance. When we look upon the Eucharist, exposed in the monstrance under […]
Read more "The Eucharist as a sign of God’s Mercy"What is lacking in Christ’s suffering?
St. Paul has made a spectacular claim in this Sunday’s second reading: There is something lacking in Christ’s sufferings. How could this be? How could Christ’s suffering on the Cross be lacking anything? Where could we possibly find a better example of a complete gift of self, a total outpouring of love? What more perfect […]
Read more "What is lacking in Christ’s suffering?"Christ is the Good Samaritan
Beaten. Stripped naked. Left for dead on the side of the road. The road to Jericho was a dangerous road, plagued with robbers, thieves, and violent men. Anyone who travelled it would have considered the possibility of winding up in such a state, but our traveler from today’s Gospel must have thought it would never […]
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A soldier sent behind enemy lines into heavily occupied territory is not normally sent unprepared. Yet our Lord says to the 72 disciples He sends on mission in today’s Gospel, “I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals.” That is, he literally sends them on a journey […]
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