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3rd Sunday of Easter
Preached April 15, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon On Easter Sunday I spoke about the spooky quality of Jesus’ resurrection, a spooky quality that we are presented with in today’s Gospel. Indeed,...
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Divine Mercy Sunday
Preached April 8, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s Gospel, Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, greets his Apostles three times, saying, Peace be with you. Then he tells Thomas, Do...
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Easter Sunday
Preached April 1, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon It can be very disconcerting to find out that you are not alone, when you thought you were. Imagine coming into your house in...
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Easter Vigil
Preached March 31, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Those of you who have been attending all the service through the Sacred Triduum will have noticed that I have been placing great emphasis...
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Good Friday
Preached March 30, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In recounting Jesus’ death on the Cross, the Evangelist John makes a special note of the fulfillment of two passages of Scripture, the first...
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Holy Thursday
Preached March 29, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The Mass is not a re-enactment of the Last Supper. If you want a re-enactment you could go to the ‘Last Days of Jesus’...
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Palm Sunday
Preached March 25, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In the 2nd Eucharistic prayer, the priest introduces the consecration narrative saying of Jesus, “At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into...
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St. Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary
Preached March 19, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. (Jn 1:14) When the Son of God chose to become man, he could have fashioned...
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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...