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Husband, Dad, Catholic deacon, teacher, love walking, hopeful pessimist
My Ash Wednesday homily for this evening:
Practically, what it means to repent, to be converted, is to engage in this “campaign of Christian service.” Our engagement in this campaign is, in large part, what constitutes our “battle against spiritual evils.”
My last homily this year prior to the start of Lent:
Wisdom is only gained through experience. What Christ wants you to experience, far from making your troubles and worries magically disappear, is how He walks with you on the journey of life.
My homily for the last Sunday before Lent:
At root, every sin is a failure to love.
The most defiant and tone-deaf teenager couldn't beat that performance.
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This past week provided me with a great chance to be gentler with myself.
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My homily for this evening:
While this relatively non-descript Galilean peasant is God in the flesh, He is not recognized as such.
Sometimes short is simple and simple is good. It's easy to oversimplify things and it's also easy to over complicate things.
08.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One thing I learned during the first quarter of this century is to never be so foolish as to think things couldn't get worse.
06.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Disturbing and disgraceful.
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My homily for tonight's celebration:
Both Simeon and Anna recognize in the Holy Infant not only their hope, not only the hope of Israel, but as Simeon’s canticle, known by its Latin name the 'Nunc Dimittis,' points out, the hope of the whole world.
Some thoughts to add to the unbounded commentary on the Beatitudes:
Be meek and merciful. Also, be a peacemaker, a protagonist.
Like rest of this tired, senseless, authoritarian movement, Rufo is simply fading into inanity. While his conclusion about "the Somalis" is illogical, much of what he writes is spot on. But for most of us, these are not bad things. Quite the contrary.
31.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My homily for today's Memorial:
Saint Paul starts his Letter to Titus not by asserting his apostleship, which was frequently challenged, given the highly unique circumstances of his call, but by calling himself “a slave of God” (Titus 1:1).
Some thoughts primarily on today's Gospel:
In past years, one of my stock theological sayings was... it wasn't intuitively obvious to the casual observer that this itinerant from Nazareth was the Son of God...
While I've never attained the certainty about most things in life (an acute desire from my 20s thru my 40s), I'm very certain about Christ calling me to be a deacon.
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My homily for today:
Non-violence requires much more courage than violence.
Maddening
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Sadly, this year Martin Luther King, Human Rights Day needs much more emphasis than any time in the recent past.
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My homily for Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:
There is no better way to begin this, or any season, than by declaring Jesus as the Christ, our Lord and Savior. This is why, at its most fundamental, Christianity isn’t merely a moral code but a person.
Some thoughts on today's Feast in light of the readings:
Baptism makes explicit what is implicit. Hence, your baptism, too, is a revelation!
Homily for today's Solemnity. Happy New Year.
While time itself does not speed up or slow down, our experience relativizes time, making it seem slower or faster depending on what you’re doing at the time.
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Happy New Year.
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