Just read 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:20 16 [k]Therefore, we are not discouraged;[l] rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an
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Mexico Pilgrimage Homilies
From March 18-26, 2022 I was on pilgrimage with the seniors I teach at Chesterton Academy in Lisle. I preached more than twice, but here are recordings of two of my homilies. Sunday, March 20th
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Give Us New Hearts | Ash Wednesday 2022
Ash Wednesday Homily 2 March 2022 Ss. Peter and Paul & Chesterton Academy — “You are only as sick as your secrets. Jesus, on the cross, with arms outstretched and offering himself for you in
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Be Too Good to be True | 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022
Homily for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time 21 February 2022 Ss. Peter and Paul, Naperville — Over the last few Sundays, the Church has been bringing us through Luke’s account of the Sermon on
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St. Paul’s Missing Verses and the Resurrection | 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2022
(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
