A Homily for the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year A John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” –John 1:29– In our Gospel today, Saint John the Baptist identifies Jesus as “the
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A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B Imagine you’ve been in bed for a few days due to the flu. You are on your way to recovery, but you still feel lousy. Your room reeks of sickness and needs to be aired out. The waste can
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A Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A I love murder mysteries. Perhaps this is because, like many fans of the genre, I have a heightened sense of justice. I want to see the bad guy get his comeuppance. I want to see the murderer
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So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart. –Matthew 18:35– I firmly believe that the eight most difficult words in the Our Father are: “as we forgive those who trespass against us.” For most of us, especially if we
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A Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B And rising long before daybreak, he went out and departed into a desert place, and there he prayed. –Mark 1:35– Ladies and gentlemen, I hold in my hand a box that contains something so important, that, if it
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