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Homily – March 24, 2024 – Palm Sunday

Homily – March 24, 2024 – Palm Sunday

Not that there isn’t enough food for thought in these readings because there  really is—I nonetheless would like to start by first going back to something we heard in last Sunday’s second reading. Let me refresh your memory from a week ago. In the Letter to the Hebrews it said, “Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries to the one who was able to save him from death…” However, when I listen to the Passion reading of today ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – March 24th – Palm Sunday

Reflection – March 24th – Palm Sunday

My God, my God…

Years ago, when I was the catechetical coordinator at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, the parent of a child in year 5 called me with a question from her son.  They had been to mass on Palm Sunday, and hearing in the Gosepl the same words used during the the responsorial psalm – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” – the child asked, ‘Since Jesus is the Son of God, and knows everything, why ...

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Ellen Bennett

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Homily – March 17th, 2024 – 5th Sunday of Lent

Homily – March 17th, 2024 – 5th Sunday of Lent

In the opening line of this gospel story we just heard, we are told that some Greeks have come to Jerusalem obviously to a Jewish festival. These Greek-speaking people are non-Jews, or what we call “Gentiles.” They have heard something intriguing about this Jesus, and whatever has stirred within them, they cannot let it go unaddressed. They want to make an appointment and so they say to Philip, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” The reason the Greeks go to ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – March 10th, 2024 – Fourth Sunday of Lent

Reflection – March 10th, 2024 – Fourth Sunday of Lent


Testing or Trusting?

As a kid growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, the two things’ boys talked about most on the school yard were “Friday Night at the Fights” (boxing from Madison Square Garden in N.Y.C.) and stuntman Evel Knievel. We didn’t have pay-per-view, the wide range of live stream venues, or the internet to entertain us. Evel Knievel was a motorcycle daredevil who performed death-defying jumps over buses, cars, and even canyons to the thrill of audiences. He would ...

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Fr Phil

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Homily – March 3rd, 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

Homily – March 3rd, 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

This story of Jesus upsetting the tables of the moneychangers and speaking about destroying and rebuilding the Temple is not only very visual but also is found in all four gospels. John, the gospel writer we heard from today, places the story at the beginning of Jesus ministry while Matthew, Mark, and Luke place it near the end. By placing it near the end of Jesus’ ministry, Matthew, Mark, and Luke are suggesting that this talk and action of Jesus ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – March 3rd, 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

Reflection – March 3rd, 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

What Does Sabbath Mean to You?

Recently I was in an R.C.I.A. meeting and as a group we were looking at today’s First reading.  As our leader read the text for us, we were asked to listen intently and then share a word or phrase that we heard that really jumped out at us.  The line that kept replaying in my mind was, “Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy.”  As we shared our responses to the question on the ...

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Mark Mahoney

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Homily – February 25th, 2024 – Second Sunday of Lent

Homily – February 25th, 2024 – Second Sunday of Lent

A few years ago, I had the privilege of being on Mount Tabor, the mountain of Jesus’ transfiguration. While it was “good to be there,” I have to admit, it was a little anticlimactic. It would have been wonderful if, on that day, the words of today’s gospel would have come true where it says, “they saw no one with them anymore, but only Jesus.” I didn’t get to that personal moment with Jesus alone, not even in my mind. ...

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Fr Phil

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Homily – February 18th, 2024 – First Sunday of Lent

Homily – February 18th, 2024 – First Sunday of Lent

On Ash Wednesday we celebrated, as we do each year, a rite called the “Imposition of Ashes.” It sounds like throwback language the Church used long ago, yet there is something to this word. An imposition is something imposed on us that seems unfair or something that makes an unwelcomed demand on us. The boss asks you to do more at work without necessarily increasing your salary is an imposition. It’s an unwelcomed demand and doesn’t seem fair. Impositions are ...

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Fr Phil

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Homily – February 14th, 2024 – Ash Wednesday

Homily – February 14th, 2024 – Ash Wednesday

Almost all the Scripture readings we hear at liturgy, we hear only once every three years. One of the exceptions to this pattern is the Ash Wednesday readings; we get them every year. From it, we hear that Jesus is all for prayer, fasting, and almsgiving and thinks we should be, too. However, he warns against parading these classic Lenten disciplines before others. Perhaps he saw too much of this in the Pharisees of his time and how far their ...

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Fr Phil

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Homily – February 11th, 2024 – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – February 11th, 2024 – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

In both the first reading and the gospel, we have references to leprosy. That first reading, from the book of Leviticus, speaks about the consequences of being diagnosed with leprosy. The consequence is that lepers had to wear torn clothes, had to let their hair become disheveled, had to live outside the camp, and had to announce in a loud voice when approaching others, “Unclean, unclean!” Those where some of the consequences of living with leprosy, but the deep pain ...

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Fr Phil

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