20 October 2025

Properly Dressed

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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  One of my first funerals as...

Getting the Right Message

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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Perchik from "Fiddler on the Roof"     Sometimes you can get the wrong message from a story. ...
13 October 2025

A Better-Than-Anticipated Gift

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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  There are numerous movies w...

Repaying God

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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time     For many young people, what got them through the COVID pandemic and the isolation that came with i...
06 October 2025

Stopping the Cycle

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Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost     [In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Sp...
27 September 2025

Pain and Glory

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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  I recently spoke with a Powe...

Caring for Lazarus

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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time     When it comes to funny quotes in a musical, “Fiddler on the Roof” definitely has its fair share: “R...
22 September 2025

What Makes You Follow Him?

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Solemnity of St. Matthew     Whenever I think about the apostles following Jesus, I wonder what it was about the Lord that made a group of m...
08 September 2025

Faithful to the Covenant

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Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  When it comes to family or ...

Having a Beer with Jesus–Sacrament Edition

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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time–Christian Initiation of Adults/Confirmation     In his song, “ Beer with Jesus ,” Thomas Rhett sings ab...