Posts Tagged 'homily'

Homily for Sunday, October 12, 2025

You probably know that the readings we hear, on any given Sunday, are the same readings proclaimed in every Catholic church throughout the world. This revised common lectionary (R.C.L.) is also used by many other Christian denominations and acts to unite us. Also, as you probably figured out, there’s usually a connection between the first reading and gospel passage. Let’s see if these two readings have something to say to us on our faith journey.

The first reading mentions an Old ...

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Homily ~ November 17, 2024 ~ 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

I don’t know about you, but I find the Scripture readings we just heard obscure and cryptic, very hard to get my head into. They’re not the typical stories that I can easily place myself in the middle of. Readings about the end time tend to be that way.

It reminds me of a “Peanuts” cartoon. Many of us grew up as kids reading only the cartoon section of the newspaper. In this one episode, Charlie Brown is laying back on ...

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Homily – 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 20th, 2023

As you may know, the little slice of the Scriptures on any given Sunday is only that, a slice. The mistake we often make in reading these Bible stories, or just in life in general, is to think we have the whole pie when we only have a slice of the pie. Even Jesus makes the mistake with this Canaanite women.  She has to remind him that initially he only has a piece of the puzzle and not the whole ...

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