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20th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached August 20, 2017, St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. We hear these words today and they strikes our ears as being...
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19th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached August 13, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus was revealed on the mountain top with light of God’s glory shining forth...
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Transfiguration of the Lord
Preached August 6, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Jesus was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. We are used to the saying,...
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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached July 30, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Jesus says, Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. (Mt 7:7) Well and...
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14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached July 9, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and learned you have...
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13th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached July 2, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday I spoke about the life of grace, the life of the soul, that was lost through the sin of Adam and restored...
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12th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel Jesus says, Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Among other things this means that in addition to the death of the body,...
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Corpus Christi
Preached June 18, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Two Sundays ago we celebrated Pentecost; last Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, and now, this Sunday, we celebrate the...
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Trinity Sunday
Preached June 11, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last week, on Pentecost, I emphasized that the Holy Spirit is not just the Spirit of divine love, but also, according to the words...
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Pentecost
How many times have we heard that love is all you need? Well, it is not true because truth is equally necessary.