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Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests and Martyrs, & Companions, Martyrs
Ministry in a culture that is hostile to the faith seems to be a theme of every age and place. It takes different forms in different places and times, but there is always some hostility to the faith that needs to be fought. We certainly see this in our own day, when the mere mention of the…
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The Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Homecoming Mass for Benedictine University
Today’s readings Well, I would like to welcome all of you home to Benedictine University for Homecoming 2020. Except, of course, that we aren’t at our “home”: we are celebrating this Mass at my parish, Saint Mary Immaculate in Plainfield, Illinois, a little over twenty miles south and west of the Lisle campus of Benedictine. And, most…
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Saint Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus), Virgin, Mystic, Doctor of the Church
Today’s readings: Romans 8:22-27 | Psalm 19:8-11 | John 15:1-8 Today we have the joyful memorial of Saint Teresa of Avila, also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus (but not to be confused with Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, also known as Saint Therese of Liseaux, whose memorial was earlier this month!). Saint Teresa was…
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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Let your mercy come to me, O Lord.” I love that there were short verses for the psalm today, and we got to repeat this refrain from the Psalmist over and over. If you think about it, and if you really enter into it, it becomes a kind of mantra, a way to…
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The Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings If this isn’t a difficult Gospel passage to understand, I don’t think there is one! What are we to make of such a convoluted story? Surely we are not supposed to think that the king is God, are we? I mean, why would Scripture portray God in such a terrible manner? Do we want to believe in…
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Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” In today’s gospel reading, Jesus has just been given a great complement and he responds to it kind of brusquely, or at least it seems that way. Earlier in this eleventh chapter of Luke, Jesus has taught the disciples to pray, teaching…
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Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Listen again to those words of hope from the Gospel I just read: “And I tell you, ask and you will receive;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives;and the one who seeks, finds;and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”…
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Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Well, that’s a challenging instruction for Jesus to give us this morning. “Go and do likewise.” Those who hear the Gospel must also live it. Those who do not go and do likewise are like the foolish Galatians in today’s first reading who seem to be abandoning the Gospel and replacing it with…
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The Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (Respect Life Sunday)
Today, I’d like to share a bit more of a sermon than a homily, reflecting more on a specific topic than on the readings themselves. I do this because today is Respect Life Sunday, and I think it’s important to be aware of what the Church teaches on this very important issue. This being an election…
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The Holy Guardian Angels
Today’s readings: Exodus 23:20-23 | Psalm 91 | Matthew 18:1-5, Matthew 18:10 This is one of my favorite memorial days of the year. Today we celebrate the Holy Guardian Angels. Each one of us has a Guardian Angel assigned to us by God. That angel prays for us and does their best to guide us and keep us…
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