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5th Sunday of Lent
Preached March 18. 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon I didn’t plan this. Last Sunday I finished a series of seven homilies on the basics of the Catholic faith. I started out with...
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4th Sunday of Lent
Preached March 11, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon On this joyful Sunday of Lent – the reason for the rose color vestments – the readings start out on a rather grim note...
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3rd Sunday of Lent
Preached March 4, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace. Those are the words of Jesus as he purifies the Temple of the Lord, chasing the money...
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2nd Sunday of Lent
Preached February 25, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon When St. Peter says, Rabbi, it is good that we are here, it is one of those occasions in which he is saying more...
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Chair of St. Peter
Preached February 22, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon When Jesus asks his Apostles, Who do you say that I am? Peter answers on behalf of all of them, You are the Christ,...
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1st Sunday of Lent
Preached February 18, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The Gospel account today is very brief. Jesus is driven into the desert by the Holy Spirit and there he is tempted by the...
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Ash Wednesday
Preached February 14, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Happy Valentine’s Day! Now what does Valentine’s Day have to do with Ash Wednesday? As we all know the symbol of Valentine’s Day is...
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6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, stretches out his hand, with his fingers, and touches the leper, cleansing him of his leprosy. The gesture is filled with meaning because one of the...
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4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 28, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon St. John, in his Gospel, tells us that when the Jewish officials came from Jerusalem to question St. John the Baptist about his identity...
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3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 21, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Repent and believe the Gospel. The Greek word that we translate as ‘Repent’ is ‘metanoeĩte’; the noun form of which is ‘metanoía’. Literally the...