Easter 7: May 16, 2021. Exodus 28; St. John 17:11‑19. Priests are called to bear the heaviness of human life and carry the lightness of being...
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Palm Sunday: March 28, 2021. St. Mark’s Passion. Fr. Butler looks at how we welcome the Messiah on Palm Sunday, only to call for his...
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Epiphany 5: February 7, 2021. St. Mark 1:29-39. In 2021 it is easy to get a lot done all at once, even easier to take on too much, which means...
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Epiphany 1: January 10, 2021. St. Mark 1:7-11. Fr. Butler talks about Jesus’ baptism and ours. Listen to the sermon. Photo by mrjn...
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Lent 1. Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17, 25-3:7; Matthew 4:1-11. Jesus’ temptation suggests that the devil will try to get us believe we don’t have enough...
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(Mt 6:1-6,16-21) On Ash Wednesday, Jesus’ words don’t focus so much on what to do but on what not to do when we practice our piety. Fr. Houk...
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Last Epiphany. Matthew 17:1-9 Guest preacher, Canon René Somodevilla, connects Christ’s transfiguration with what comes next: back into the...
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Epiphany 6 Matthew 5:21-24, 27-30, 33-37 Fr. David reflects on King David, a man after God’s own heart, as he contemplates Jesus’s radical words...
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The Feast of the Presentation. Luke 2:22-38. When Mary and Joseph present Jesus in the temple, they encounter two people who know God, the kind of...
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Epiphany 2. John 1:29-39. Everybody is an evangelist. Nobody keeps good news to himself. Fr. Houk reflects on some reasons we hesitate when it...
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Epiphany 1 (Mt 3:13-17) In His baptism, Jesus is revealed as the promised Messiah of Isaiah 42:1-6, the inaugural event of His coming to bring...
MOREJanuary 7, 2018 (St. Mark 1:7-11) The foundation of spiritual growth must be the insight and experience of Jesus at his baptism: a Father who...
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