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Today's Mass of the Lord's Supper was a great beginning to the Triduum for me. Fr. Frank's homily focused on the Mandatum of "serve and give:" a motto that was pounded home to him in his early seminary days. It … Continued
The other day in Presiding at the Eucharist class, the instructor corrected one of the guys who was using an older Sacramentary. At the words of institution, he said "for you and for all men" … the word "men," of … Continued
I preached two different homilies this weekend: one for the regular Sunday (Cycle B of the Lectionary) and the other for the Second Scrutiny (which uses Cycle A of the Lectionary). Both are given below. I took special care to … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/031906a.shtml I think today’s Gospel story is very strange to many of us. It presents Jesus in a light that we don’t often see – kind of a violent light, in fact. I’ve often heard this story explained as a … Continued
A surface reading of Catholic blogs lately has made me ponder the purpose of these things. Since it’s Lent, I thought maybe all of us, bloggers or readers, could resolve to give up some things: The use of the phrase … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/030506.shtml Lets start today with a survey. How many of you have given something up for Lent? And how many of you are happy about that? How many of you would say that giving something up for Lent brings you … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/030106.shtml Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. One of the ministry things I have been involved in during my time in seminary is as a fire chaplain. I work for one of … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/021906.shtml This was my homily for yesterday. It had a lot to do with the topic of friendship and how God is incarnate in our friends — that’s just been on my mind and heart a lot lately, and this … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/021206.shtml Well, I didn’t preach this week, but some things came to me as I prayed through the scriptures this weekend. First, the leper in the Gospel was clearly a man of faith. “If you will it, you can make … Continued
http://www.usccb.org/nab/020506.shtml My homily today was shortened a bit from the original. We had a letter to read from the bishop. So this is the homily as I actually preached it: Todays Gospel once again shows Jesus curing people and casting … Continued
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