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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The Courtship of Princess Lucilda
The 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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When I was growing up, Dad would sometimes take Mom and us kids to California in the summertime to visit his parents. Grandpa and Grandma Ezaki lived on a farm in Kingsburg. They raised grapes and peaches via irrigation because the sun would become so hot, it would bake the
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Grapes Grow in the Valleys: A Homily for the Feast of the Transfiguration
As they were about to part from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here; let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” –Luke 9:33– Years ago, my friend Tim, an extraordinarily gentle soul, shyly told me
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