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.

24 September 2018

Rebuild My Church

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Solemnity of the Anniversary of the Dedication of St. Pius X Catholic Church As we celebrate this 62nd anniversary of the dedication ...
04 September 2018

Responding to the Word

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Usually every week, a different day each week, I get a phone call.  Recently it’s been more local ...
27 August 2018

"Do you also want to leave?"

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time So the second week of August was not a great week for me.  It was one of those weeks, I know you’ve...
13 August 2018

A Godly Diet

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time There are all sorts of diets these days: Atkins, South Beach, Paleo, No Carb, and the list goes on an...
06 August 2018

Want or Need?

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time In my first few years as a priest, I would, from time to time, buy lotto tickets with my own money.  ...
30 July 2018

Like Fr. Mulcahy

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Whenever I ask my parents what they want for their birthday or Christmas, they usually say they don’...
23 July 2018

Wasting Time with Jesus

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Brad Paisley, one of the great country music singers of our time, has a song he released in 2005 ca...
09 July 2018

Domesticated Prophets

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time According to the most scholarly of sources, Wikipedia, dogs were domesticated sometime around 14,7...
02 July 2018

Death and Resurrection

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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Death.  It’s scary.  It seems so final.  What is beyond death is, generally, unknown.  It is the bigg...
25 June 2018

Celebrating Birthdays

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Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist In our own times, birthdays are big deals.  Everybody I know celebrates birthdays, or ...
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Fr. Anthony Strouse is the pastor of St. Matthew parish in Flint, Michigan
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