A Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C I have never had misgivings about my priesthood, but the older I get, the more seriously I take my ordination. For example, when I was a young priest, I recall reading that when the Italian mystic Saint Mary Magdalene de’
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A Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception And coming to her, he [i.e. the angel] said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” –Luke 1:28– Ladies and gentlemen, last night, I drank tomato juice from this very glass. How would you feel if I were
Read moreThe Courtship of Princess Lucilda By Father Bernard J. Ezaki Tell All the Truth Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth
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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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