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3rd Sunday of Advent
Preached December 16, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon To be honest, the message of today’s Mass, the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Advent’s Sunday of Joy, might be a bit irritating. Rejoice in...
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2nd Sunday of Advent
Preached December 9, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The opening of today’s Gospel fixes a very definite time in history making reference to the political and religious order of the time and...
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1st Sunday of Advent
Preached December 2, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This Holiday Season I am thinking I might be a bit of a Grinch. I am not going to put out a ‘Keep Christ...
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Christ the King
Preached November 25, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This past week I came across a couple of commentaries speaking about how foreign the celebration of Christ the King appears to a democratic...
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33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 18, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time could be called ‘End of the World Sunday’, but we want always to remember that of that day...
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32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 11, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Once again this Sunday we have heard from the Letter to the Hebrews. Last Sunday I spoke about the importance of that Letter for...
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31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 4, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon During the course of the last month our 2nd reading has been taken from the Letter to the Hebrews and that will continue for...
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All Saints (Noon Mass)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter’s Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon (Noon Mass) In today’s Psalm response we all said, Lord, this is the people who long to see your face. The saints in heaven,...
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All Saints (Spanish Mass)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon (Translated from Spanish) In today’s 1st reading we heard about the saints in heaven that they have passed through the great distress and have...
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All Saints (to the students of St. Mary’s Academy)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter’s Catholic Church, The Dalles (to the students of St. Mary’s Academy) Yesterday was Halloween. The word is short for “All Hallows Eve”. Just as Christmas Eve leads into Christmas...