Homily Delivered at Notre Dame of Bethlehem Roman Catholic Church Trinity Sunday, June 10th, 2001 for Bethlehem Catholic High School’s Baccalaureate Mass The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. –Proverbs 12:18, NIV– Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity.
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It was the autumn of 1980. My friend Ann and I were walking to the Harvard Divinity School Library. As we made our way along the little path that wound its way among fragrant pine trees, we paused before an old-fashioned looking lamppost, one of many on campus.
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That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after. –C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew— Some of you history buffs may know that in 1905, the obscure Muscovite
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And then they will see the Son of Man coming upon clouds with great power and majesty. –Mark 13:26– Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him. –Revelation 5:7– Years ago my friend, Father Frans Berkhout, and I were on our way to
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As Mary sat all alone, her thoughts wandered back over time to an event that had taken place decades earlier. In her mind’s eye, she now saw the faces of the three Kings as clearly as if she had seen them only yesterday. Casper was a pudgy, red-faced Arab
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A Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Have you fitted a curb to the Pleiades, or loosened the bonds of Orion? Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or guide the Bear with its train? –Job 38:31-32– Jesus said, “Whoever finds his life
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During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. –Luke 1:39-40– At the Annunciation, the angel Gabriel appeared to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and she conceived the Christ-child in
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“It’s a little brass ring. What a quaint sort of thing! What’s the story behind it?” you ask. Though the hour is late And it’s hard to relate, I’ll embark on the arduous task. ‘Twas a late April day, Perhaps early in May, She and I on the boardwalk together.
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But he [the elder son] was angered and would not go in. –Luke 15:28– There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in
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The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my
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