A Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Peter said to him [viz. Jesus] in reply, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward
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And he [i.e. Jesus] said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. –Luke 7:22– Though
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A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A When he [i.e. the shepherd of the sheep] has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice. –John 10:4– If I could see well, one of
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A Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter Then he [i.e. Jesus] said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” –John 20:27– Have you ever heard of the
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A Homily for those Preparing for Confession If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing. –1 John 1:9– On my bookshelf, there rests a little volume entitled God Never Panics by Nate Carter. Here is
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A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A Father Bernard J. Ezaki Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. There are tears in our affairs, and things mortal touch the mind. –Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 1, Line 462– In 1867, Mark Twain took a cruise with some fellow Americans
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A Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent Year A Here is one of my favorite stories. It is entitled, “Grandma’s Pet Duck,” and its author is Pastor Steven Cole. I give it to you with a few embellishments: When little Johnny was visiting his grandparents, he was
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A Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A In the 1996 movie The Preacher’s Wife, Denzel Washington plays the role of an angel named Dudley. One scene is a particular favorite of mine. A little boy, unaware that he is speaking to an angel, asks Dudley
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I was recently surprised to learn that National Geographic’s geneticist Spencer Wells has argued convincingly that, based on markers in human DNA, all human beings are descended from a single set of parents! That’s right. Wells calls them, appropriately enough, Scientific Adam and Scientific Eve and says they lived
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If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it
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