(Photo: Taken last week in the cemetery at Mundelein Seminary) Although the grounds at Mundelein Seminary are visited by thousands of people every year, not many people know that there is a cemetery there, tucked
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“I am What I am”: Can I say that?
The readings for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C are some of my favorites of the whole cycle, with the reading from Isaiah 6 being particularly important to me. Despite everything, God has
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Nuggets: Conversion of St. Paul and the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
Office of Readings, 28 January – Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor From a Conference by St. Thomas Aquinas (Collatio 6 super Credo in Deum) Why did the Son of God have to
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Theopneustos | 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022
This weekend, the 3rd week in Ordinary Time, is known as “Word of God Sunday” since 2019, and is a day on which the whole Church is encouraged to reflect more specifically on the role
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Cana in Galilee: The First of the Miracles and Some Sacramental Theology
“There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding…Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana
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New Creation, New Me | Baptism of the Lord 2022
Yesterday the Church celebrated the liturgical culmination of the Christmas season by marking the occasion of the Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. In a sermon on this occasion,
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Particular Salvation (and a tangent about EpiPens) | Epiphany 2022
Homily for Epiphany 2021 Saints Peter and Paul, Naperville 2 January 2022 Scroll down for audio! — “This is the glorious day on which Christ himself, the savior of the world, appeared; the prophets foretold
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Yeshua, Christos, Kyrios, Pantokratore | Christ the King 2021
Homily for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church – Naperville 21 Naperville 2021 — (Scroll down for the audio!) Pondus meum amor meus. How’s
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Churches and Heaven and Don McLean | 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
Homily for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Ss. Peter and Paul Parish 7 November 2021 — Hearing about and helping to clarify your spiritual experiences is a joy of priesthood. When you come to
