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Art as Reverence

June 18, 2021
Brush Creek Church

In my homily for last Sunday, I used the Impressionist painters as the springboard to discuss the image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These French painters responded to the…

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Platters and Baskets

August 4, 2020
Loaves and Fishes Mosaic

Eighteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A, Matthew 14:13-21 What do you call the round, flat ceramic object where you put the food that sits right in front of you…

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Encountering God requires Humility

June 11, 2020
OLL Logo

What are the things in your life that make you humble? What are the circumstances and situations which never fail to make you feel small, like you want to run…

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10 de Mayo, 2:00 PM, Santa Misa, IV Domingo de Pascua

May 10, 2020
Resucito

La Santa Misa se transmitió desde la Iglesia Católica Nuestra Señora del Lago, Lake Ozark, Missouri. Se ha permitido una participación pública limitada en la misa para nuestras parroquias. Lea…

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Divine Mercy Sunday, Year A, John 20:19-31

April 25, 2020
Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

Read the beginning of the Gospel another time like this:  On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for…

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Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

April 5, 2020

St. John the Evangelists begins his Gospel with these words:  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God.”  There are no…

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St. Pope John Paul II’s Anniversary of Death

April 2, 2020
St. Pope John Paul after Midnight Mass, Christmas 1982

Today is the fifteen anniversary of the passing of St. Pope John Paul II. It is fitting that all of us offer a prayer of gratitude to God for raising…

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Homily for Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 29, 2020

March 31, 2020
Cemetery of St. Boniface Catholic Church, Koeltztown, MO

The 20th Century brought forth into the world incomprehensible tragedy human history and tested the limits of reason and science.  One of the more popular slogans that appeared in the…

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Homilia de la Solemnidad de la Anunciación del Señor

March 25, 2020

(English below) Se sabía que San Juan de Vianne había pasado muchas horas en el confesionario escuchando a la gente decirle sus pecados y ofreciendo penitencia y absolución. Un día,…

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Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A, John 9:1-42

March 22, 2020
Lighthouse in Oregon

                This is the Sunday of Enlightenment as we proclaim Jesus, the Light to the World that shines in the darkness of sin and ignorance. The readings are about seeing: …

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