A Homily for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” –Luke 13:24– If you have heard this story from me prior to 2022, you are probably
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A Homily for the Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.[1] –Saint Vincent de Paul– Not too
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July 1999 The babble of some people is like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise is healing. –Proverbs 12:18– Introduction I always felt a secret twinge of regret that my poor eyesight prevented me from following in my surgeon father’s footsteps. But after
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When I was growing up, my older sister Elizabeth used to tease me with the first three lines of this list of negatives. Later in life, when I became a teacher, I added lines four through eight and used the result liberally with my high school sophomores. In a
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