Also, check out this link to a blog post over at The Rabbit Room for a post I found particularly moving about Rembrandt and why he painted two versions of the Presentation in the Temple,
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Does Jesus Still Call Us? | 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2020
Here’s one of those homilies I didn’t really mean to give…that is, I ended up talking about something I didn’t know I needed to talk about. That’s the Spirit. The gist is this: does Jesus
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Can We Get a Star, Too, Please? | Epiphany 2020
Epiphany 2020 Cathedral of St. Raymond I wish we could live in the time of Jesus’ birth; before he was studied, known. When everything about this child was still mysterious and full of
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Let Him Do What He Came to Do | Christmas 2019
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us? The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. How strange. We have the disadvantage of being of this side of the story. For us, we
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“What Cathedral?” | 4th Sunday of Advent 2019
What if we believed Jesus was among in all his power? Can you imagine how different this place would be?
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Being a Bridge is Not About You | Gaudete Sunday 2019
Brick and River by Brennan Robinson There was a brick on the bridge’s bottom, Who had wearied of what elders taught him In song they’d sing about being a brick, The joy with brother to
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Rarely Does a Healthy Tree Get Cut Down | 2nd Sunday of Advent 2019
Here we are at the beginning of the new Church year and……..we’re talking about the end? Again. But we can’t be fooled into thinking that the end, the fulfillment of life in the new
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Fear of the Void, Diffusive Love, and Yankee Candles | 1st Sunday of Advent 2019
Horror Vacui – abhorrence of the void. Bonum diffusivum sui est – Goodness is diffusive of itself. St. Paul tells the Philippians to stay away from orgies and lust, rivalry and jealousy. These, and so
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