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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...
The Finding of the Holy Cross (May 3)
The Finding of the Holy Cross (May 3)
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There are two feasts of the Holy Cross that are celebrated in the Western Rite calendar. The one shared with the Eastern Rite is September 14, which we know as... 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...
Jesus & Satan in Hades
Jesus & Satan in Hades
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As Our Lord Jesus Christ descends into hell, the devil says, “Who are you? You look like an ordinary human, but you stride about like someone who’s in charge. Are... 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...
Tough But Not Unbearable: Palm Sunday Homily
Tough But Not Unbearable: Palm Sunday Homily
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This Holy Week is tough, but it is not unbearable. It is tough because we are not in our usual Holy Week routine: coming to the church, focused on Our... Read more...