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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When I was young, I watched a really awesome wildlife program on television. It was all about, of all things, the tsetse fly. The bloodsucking tsetse fly, if I remember correctly, was a real nuisance in Africa. It caused diseases in both livestock and humans, including African sleeping
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Homily for the First Mass of Father David Matthew Anthony Notre Dame of Bethlehem Church, Bethlehem Pennsylvania 5 June 2016 Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is of course required of
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A Talk for the Serra Club’s Dinner for Newly Ordained Priests I have often told Jesus that if I had to invent a religion, I could not come up with a seemingly stranger one than Catholicism. How can the Eucharist, what appears to be bread and wine, really be
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