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3rd Sunday of Advent
Preached December 17, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to...
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2nd Sunday of Advent
For freedom Christ set us free. (Gal 5:1) That means that before Christ came into the world and before he came into our life, we were not free. In today’s 1st reading God commands the...
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1st Sunday of Advent
Preached December 3, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In our opening prayer or ‘collect’ we prayed, “Grant your faithful, Almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous...
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Christ the King
Preached November 26, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Whatever you did to the least of my brethren you did to me. From time to time a transient will pass by the parish...
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33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 19, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Jesus Christ will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. That is part of our faith. We expect to be...
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32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 12, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence. It is by taking thought for wisdom that we become like the wise virgins who...
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31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 4, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. These words have often been used by the proponents of...
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30th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 29, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Thus says the Lord – these words introduce a series of commands that spell out some of the details of what we heard in...
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29th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 22, 2017; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The classic definition of the virtue of justice is the “constant and perpetual will to render to each one what belongs to him.” (cf....
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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...