The Grace of Preaching

A blog to communicate the fruits of my own contemplation of Scripture for most of the Sundays and Holy Days of the Liturgical Year. By this blog I hope that you can draw closer to the Triune God and see how the Word of God continues to be living and effective in your own lives.

07 September 2026

Senses of Scripture

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  An early Church Father from ...

Believing and Belonging

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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time     All too often, we can be tempted to fall into the temptation that all that really matters is, to us...
31 August 2026

Wasting our Life for God

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Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time     Bishop Mengeling, God rest his soul, was the consummate story teller.  And his life had many, inte...
24 August 2026

Worshipping Outside the Temple

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Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  Some homilies, or at least ...

Tu Es Petrus

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time     “ Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum.  Habemus papam!  Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominu...
17 August 2026

The Spirit of the Law

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Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  I will admit, as I’m driving d...

Trying to Take Over the World

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time     Growing up as a child, one of my favorite TV shows was “Animaniacs,” which was a Warner Brothers carto...
10 August 2026

Keeping the Past in the Past

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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost     In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  In the spring of my senior ye...

Keeping our Eyes Fixed on Jesus

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time     What is it about car accidents, or even simply a car stopped by the police, that makes us want to sta...
03 August 2026

Gifts From God

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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost      In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  On 13 July 2012, while running ...
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Fr. Anthony Strouse is the pastor of St. Matthew parish in Flint, Michigan
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