A Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent, Year B Remember the Sabbath day—keep it holy. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work, either you, your son or your daughter, your
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Be still and know that I am God. —Psalm 46:11– Some time ago, I was walking down one of the hallowed hallways of Bethlehem Catholic High School. It was during second period, so as I went past each open classroom door, I could hear what the teacher therein was
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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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And people brought to him [i.e. Jesus] a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked
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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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Thus is the kingdom of God; as though a man should cast seed into the earth, then sleep and rise, night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow without his knowing it. For of itself the earth bears the crop, first the blade, then the ear, then the
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Without me you can do nothing. –John 15:5– Some years ago, my friend Father Frans Berkhout and I were in an airport on our way home from a vacation. We were in a long line of passengers waiting to have our luggage scanned before boarding our plane. Passengers were
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