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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.Continue reading “33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Persevere in Hope”

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 atContinue reading “32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: We will be like the angels and we are all children of God”

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 AmericanContinue reading “Solemnity of Christ the King”

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,Continue reading “30th Sunday in Ordinary Time“

October 16, 2022 Often, I hear Catholics say: “I am praying very hard for this or that to happen in my life.” I think that this means that the person is being consumed or preoccupied by something, is seeking relief or a good outcome.  I think it also means that they are saying prayers, seekingContinue reading “29th Sunday in Ordinary Time“

October 2022 Intro From Spain to Prague in 1556 and around the world, the devotion to the Infant of Prague venerating the childhood of Jesus has spread. I was introduced to the statue at Queen of All Saints School in 1949 where it stood atop a tall pedestal, gold and crowned in liturgical colors –Continue reading “Short Homily #3 from Fr. Mangini’s European Pilgrimage“

October 2, 2022 When the apostles ask Jesus “to increase their faith” for what are they asking? “Faith” is not a product or a better result or a protective charm or a spiritual vitamin or an idea or a system of thought???  Is it something that God does to help us?  Or is it somethingContinue reading “27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Manifesting in Biblical Times – “Write the vision down clearly, for the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint”“

October 4, 2022 Introduction More than St. Francis of Assisi, October 4 is always a special day for me, as I remember the 85th wedding anniversary of my parents, Raymond and Margaret in Concord, California at Queen of All Saints Church in 1936.  I would be born in 1940. A wedding day, a future life,Continue reading “Short homily No. 1 from Oberammergau Passion Play Pilgrimage“

September 25, 2022 I re-read the last sentence of last week’s gospel: “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.”  In Aramaic, the word “mammon” refers to money, wealth and possessions. Medieval Christians regarded the word as the name of a demon who lead people to covetousness, a desire to have and keep and amass moreContinue reading “26th Sunday “