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.

29 June 2020

No Quid Pro Quo

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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time        Our society operates most frequently on a transactional mentality.  If I give you this, then you g...
15 June 2020

Love which Helps Us Love

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Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)     This past Thursday I celebrated the tenth anniversary of ordination to the pr...
08 June 2020

Living Icons of the Trinity

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity     You might think that it’s strange that the most fundamental part of our faith, the belief that God...
01 June 2020

Celebrating Pentecost 2020 Like the First One

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Solemnity of Pentecost     Welcome back to Mass (albeit, in smaller numbers than usual and celebrated a little differently than usual)!  ...
26 May 2020

Gone and Yet Here

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Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord     If there’s one thing that has proliferated during our pandemic, it’s memes.  Memes, if you’re ...
11 May 2020

Doh!

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Fifth Sunday of Easter     When I was growing up, my parents did not let me watch “The Simpsons” because, I suppose, they thought it too ...
04 May 2020

"There's a Difference in Living and Living Well"

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Fourth Sunday of Easter     People sometimes ask me how I prepare for my homilies and how long it takes.  I think it was Archbishop Fulton S...
26 April 2020

Encountering the Risen Christ

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Third Sunday of Easter     The question on a lot of people’s minds these days is: what is life going to be like after the Stay at Home order...
10 April 2020

Plethoras of Alleluias!

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord     One of the great comedic movies of the 1980s is “Three Amigos” with Steve Martin, Chevy...

The Greatest Event that No One Saw

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The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night     Phew!!  That’s a lot of the Word of God!  We started at Genesis 1, and maybe you feel like we went th...
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Fr. Anthony Strouse is the pastor of St. Matthew and St. Pius X parishes in Flint, Michigan
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