Sunday, October 5, 2025

Recovering The Saints

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In the rearranging of the Roman Missal and Calendar after Vatican II, a new emphasis was placed on Sunday Mass being about the Paschal Myste...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus is Scarier than We Think

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This parable, told shortly after the parable of the Dishonest Steward, is more threatening to our easy lives than we thought. That other par...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Triumph of Christians Can Only Be The Triumph of the Cross

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Left, Right, Center, or None-of-the-Above, if any individual Christian wants to win, or any Christian nation or church wants to succeed, it ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Faith, or Faithfulness, or Both?

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This homily is from last weekend, Aug. 24th, the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. It was about some key words in the shortest of all psalms, Ps...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Hadestown and Hebrews, Ch.12

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Homilies are funny. Saturday night is always me at my most frenetic self: talking fast, maybe "playing to crowd" more, testing the...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Ten Homilies, Because I'm ADHD and Messy.

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Welp. I don't love preaching, and I don't love going back later to figure out which of three imperfect tries is the one, and once I ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Heart Has (Liturgical) Reasons The Reason Knows Not

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On my day-off last week I was sitting in an Omaha coffeeshop, dressed casually and avoiding work on my laptop. At some point I realized that...