Category: Homily

SUNDAY SNIPPETSXXIII SUNDAY OF THE YEARWisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33Some time ago, a priest invited me to preach a retreat for his students.

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SUNDAY SNIPPETSXXII SUNDAY OF THE YEARSirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14Someone asked Leonard Bernstein, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic

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XXI SUNDAY OF THE YEAR Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30Outside a place of worship in South India hangs a signboard that reads: “No

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XVIII SUNDAY OF THE YEAREcclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23; Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11; Luke 12:13-21Henry Ford asked an associate about his life goals. The man replied his goal

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XVII SUNDAY OF THE YEARGenesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13Winston Churchill took three years to get through the eighth grade! Many years later, in October

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SUNDAY SNIPPETSXVI SUNDAY OF THE YEARBEING WITH AND DOING FOR Genesis 18:1-10a; Colossians 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42One hears parents complain: “I slog from morning till night

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XV SUNDAY OF THE YEARDeuteronomy 30:10-14; Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 10:25-37In July 2003, a successful heart operation on two-and-a-half-year-old Noor Fatima, a Pakistani child, put the

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SUNDAY SNIPPETSXIV SUNDAY OF THE YEARIsaiah 66:10-14c; Galatians 6:14-18; Luke 10:1-12, 17-20A missionary, after working several years in the Pacific Islands, was translating the Gospel

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SUNDAY SNIPPETSActs 12:1-11; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18; Matthew 16:13-19Allen Gardiner was a British naval officer and a missionary to South Africa, Chile, and Patagonia. Despite

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𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗡𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗦Genesis 14:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062225.cfm In 1967, Robert Sténuit—the Belgian underwater archaeologist—discovered the wreck of the Spanish ship, the Girona, off the

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