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28th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 15, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Sunday after Sunday now we have been hearing a sequence of closely related parables. Last Sunday I pointed out the connection through the image...
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27th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 8, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In case you hadn’t notice the image of the vineyard is an important one in Scripture. This is the third Sunday in a row...
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26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 1, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon We live today in an exceedingly fragmented world, a new Babel in which we no longer know how to speak with one another and...
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25th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 21, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s Gospel Jesus tells a parable in which the landowner speaks to men he finds in the marketplace at the last hour of...
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24th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 17, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday I spoke about the responsibility that bishops and priests have to warn the people of spiritual danger, dangers that threaten the salvation...
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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 9, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. The words of the Psalmist are meant as a warning to each one of...
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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 3, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Do not be conformed to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. The Christian, as the saying goes, is to...
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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached August 27, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Has anyone ever asked you if you have been ‘saved’? Has anyone ever asked you if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your ‘personal...
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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...