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Mass During Christmas
Mass During Christmas
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Dear Parishioners & Friends: For most of this year we have been challenged to make a number of sacrifices out of love and concern for each other. The parish has... Read more...
Breaking Through Broken
Breaking Through Broken
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Has the coronavirus broken you—your habit of prayer, your attendance at Mass (either in person or via livestream), and your desire for the Holy Sacraments. Has it made “living-room church”... Read more...
Prayer is Not Nothing: Pentecost Homily
Prayer is Not Nothing: Pentecost Homily
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For nine days the Holy Apostles and 120 others are in the upper room praying. From the outside, it looks like the ascension of Christ has left them bewildered, lost,... Read more...
Taking Care
Taking Care
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The Sacraments are essential to your life. This means that they maintain not just your spiritual well-being but your entire welfare. For our life is lived toward one goal: to... Read more...
Meeting Fear: Easter I homily
Meeting Fear: Easter I homily
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Fear paralyzed the disciples. That is why they locked themselves in the upper room. They were afraid of the same folks who had conspired and come out against Jesus. Their... Read more...
Unimaginable Joy? Easter Day Homily
Unimaginable Joy? Easter Day Homily
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Christ is risen! Nothing else matters. Which is why one of our bishops once said that, “Other people would not think this a time for festival. [But] far from being... Read more...
Imitating Death: Good Friday Homily
Imitating Death: Good Friday Homily
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What we offered Our Lord, and what He graciously took from us, was the consequence of the contagion of sin. We offered a body capable of death, a body incapable... Read more...
Paschal Triduum Resources
Paschal Triduum Resources
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Triduum means "three days." The Paschal Triduum refers to the holies three days, in which we commemorate the suffering, death, and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Live-streaming these unique... Read more...
Loving to the End: Holy Thursday Homily
Loving to the End: Holy Thursday Homily
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To love someone to the end is to do whatever you must for their good, their well-being, their health, their safety, their care. It means sacrificing your ideas of what... Read more...
Tears of Repentance: Holy Wednesday Homily
Tears of Repentance: Holy Wednesday Homily
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When we see people suffer, when we contemplate the scale of misery and grief, it seems right to feel sorry for them: to pity their circumstances, and the trauma that... Read more...
Forsaking Our Lord: Holy Tuesday Homily
Forsaking Our Lord: Holy Tuesday Homily
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“They forsook him and fled.” That is by far the most devastating sentence in the story of Our Lord’s Passion. It means that He was left lonely, bereft of the... Read more...
The Aroma of Life: Holy Monday Homily
The Aroma of Life: Holy Monday Homily
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Like the perfume of the incense which clings to our clothing and to our hair, the sweet-smelling savor of the costly ointment from Mary filled the whole room. Certainly, that... Read more...