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III Lent: Put Your Truth On the Table
March 12, 2023 (An introduction only) “Put your truth on the table.” Pope Francis’ piece of advice this last Wednesday at his weekly audience. When we become frustrated that our will and plans are not fulfilled, as quickly as we would like, or not all, we crumble and complain or shake our fists. “Why did…
Lent II: Just Listen
March 5, 2023 You can now switch back and forth, driving up to what is called the Mount of the Transfiguration (Southern Galilee) where a 1924 Church recalls the moment of today’s story: Up in 10 minutes by van, it took Jesus and his disciples several hours to climb its 1800 feet. What happened there?…
February 5, 2023: Your light must shine before others
We cannot get away from God, because as a very fundamental experience of being and existing, God exists in each one of us, as a fundamental human incarnation. As I have said often, if God does not exist in us, we cease to exist. St. Paul described this so well when he spoke and debated…
January 29, 2023
IV Sunday in Ordinary Time 1st Homily: We identify with every human situation and try to make it better So, which is it? Blessed are the poor in spirit or blessed are those who punch their way through life? Do we share our common lives as human beings or is one cultural group better than…
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
January 1, 2023 Many Protestants and even some Catholics shudder and bristle whenever we call the Blessed Virgin Mary “The Mother of God.” How could she give birth to God who created the universes and all that is created? Well, she certainly gave birth to the human nature of Jesus and gave him a body,…
Advent II
December 4, 2022 1st Homily: See the bigger picture and produce good fruit Today’s gospel focuses our attention on supposedly a cousin/relative of Jesus, John the Baptist. He was a “lightning rod” kind of a person who emerged in the Roman Province of Palestine in the early first century. He lived in the desert area…
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Persevere in Hope
November 13, 2022 What do you think? Will the world as we know end/cease to exist? There was that kind of thinking at the end of the first century, just when the Jesus movement and its hope in the Resurrection to new life were beginning to take off in the Mediterranean world of ancient Europe.…
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: We will be like the angels and we are all children of God
November 6, 2022 First Homily Not all Catholics believe that we will rise from the dead. I know that from many conversations over 55 years as a priest. For many people, what they are here, is what is, and thereafter, there is nothing. That there is life after this life is an ancient intuition at…
Solemnity of Christ the King
November 20, 2022 Just a short time ago, we witnessed all the pomp and majesty of the death of Queen Elizabeth II of England. In the coming months, we will sit enthralled at the coronation of King Charles. As American citizens, we have grown up in a republic of Presidents, Congress members and an American…
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 23, 2022 I want to return to the question that ended our Gospel last Sunday: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” “¿Creen que encontrará fe sobre la tierra?” Because we have been made in the image and likeness of God, there will always be faith! As human beings,…
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