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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, … Continued
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, … Continued
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 … Continued
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, … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Today’s readings This is the beginning of a rather angelic few days for us Catholics. Today we celebrate the feast of the archangels, and on Friday we will have the joy of honoring our guardian angels. We celebrate the way the angels … Continued
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