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Category Archives: Eucharist
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings During World War II, the officers of the Third Reich’s secret service forcefully recruited many 12- and 13-year-old boys into the Junior Gestapo. The harshly treated boys were given only inhumane jobs that they were to perform without … Continue reading
Posted in Body & Blood of Christ, Eucharist, Homilies, Ordinary Time
Tagged Body and Blood of Christ, Eucharist
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Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings At our core, we all want peace and security in our lives. We don’t want rough waters, or pain, or discord in our families, and that’s all understandable. I think it’s that very same sentiment that is behind … Continue reading
Posted in Easter, Eucharist, Homilies
Tagged Bread of Life, feeding, food, prophecy, St. Paul, St. Stephen
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Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time [B]
Today’s readings Today we have set before us two tables. One is the incredibly rich banquet of wisdom, and the other is, I don’t know, the fast food of foolishness, I guess. The question is, at which table have we … Continue reading
Posted in Eucharist, Homilies, Ordinary Time
Tagged Bread of Life discourse, Eucharist, foolishness, wisdom
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle B
Today’s readings The Bread of Life Discourse: an outline Bishop Kaffer used to say that every celebration of the Eucharist was a greater creative act than the creation of the universe. Now I think greater theological minds than mine would … Continue reading
Posted in Christology, Eucharist, Homilies, Jesus Christ, Ordinary Time
Tagged Bread of Life, Discipleship, Eucharist, miracles, sharing
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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings Today we celebrate with great joy one of the most wonderful feasts on our Church calendar, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Through this greatest of all gifts, we have been made one with our God … Continue reading
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Tagged Body and Blood of Christ, covenant, Eucharist, salvation
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CREEDS Retreat Conference II: The Eucharist and the Church
Scriptures: Matthew 26:14-30 Godspell: “Beautiful City” and “On the Willows” The Eucharist is an amazingly complex event. Ordinary food – bread and wine – become the very body and blood of our Lord and God. Through the Eucharist we mere … Continue reading
Fifteenth Sunday: Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens
This was the alternate homily that I gave at 10:45 Mass, during which we accepted a young man into the Order of Catechumens. In the ancient Church, there were several so-called orders within the assembly. The main group or … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Catholicism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Homilies, Ordinary Time, RCIA
Tagged catechumen, RCIA
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Forty Hours Devotion: Closing Mass of Thanksgiving
Readings: Sirach 50:22-24; Mark 5:18-20 [display_podcast] Have you ever had an experience that was so wonderful you just never wanted it to end? Maybe you were on a vacation and the place where you spent your time was really beautiful, … Continue reading
Forty Hours Devotion: Solemn Vespers
Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 [display_podcast] What is so wonderful, I think, about these Forty Hours is that we truly do have the wonderful ability to approach our God who is enthroned on Mount Zion, the city of the living God, … Continue reading
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today's readings During World War II, the officers of the Third Reich's secret service forcefully recruited many 12- and 13-year-old boys into the Junior Gestapo. The harshly treated boys were given only inhumane jobs that they were to perform without … Continue reading
Posted in Body & Blood of Christ, Discipleship, Eucharist, Homilies, The Church Year, The Eucharist
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