A Homily for the First Sunday of Lent I am old enough to remember the cartoon character Fred Flintstone depicted in the throes of temptation—with a winged and haloed angel on his right shoulder and a horned, pitchfork-bearing devil on his left. Fred was part of my childhood. Today, however,
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Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. –1 Peter 3:15– Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? –Luke 14:28– Decades ago, I picked up a little pamphlet, published by InterVarsity
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A Talk Given for Legatus 8 January 2020 Everybody is wounded in some way—emotionally, psychologically—everybody. That is part of the human condition. And when you realize that, it calms you, because you realize it’s normal. And part of the unhappiness of life is thinking that you have been dealt an
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Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Are not
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“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent
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A Homily for Easter As you may know, the Church teaches that Jesus’ death on the Cross means that the souls He has redeemed can at last enter paradise. From the time of Adam’s fall until Good Friday, the gates of heaven were closed to the soul of every
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He [Jesus] came home. Again [the] crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,”
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A Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A As Hurricane Harvey was approaching Texas in late August of 2017, officials in that state, in no uncertain terms, were telling residents in the path of the storm to get out, to waste no time in evacuating. If you
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The statutes of the LORD are true, all of them just; more desirable than gold, than a hoard of purest gold. –Psalm 19:10-11– In his massive book, The Future of Life, naturalist Edward O. Wilson describes a fascinating battle between two species of ants. Red ants attack black ants.
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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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