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3rd Sunday of Lent
Preached March 15, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Let me begin today with a doctrinal summary. The doctrine gives us the objective reality. Today’s Gospel will help us discover how to encounter...
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2nd Sunday of Lent
Preached March 8, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday, I spoke about the distinction and interrelation of the natural and supernatural orders, both created by God. The supernatural order, the order...
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1st Sunday of Lent
Preached March 1, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon God created two interrelated orders, the order of nature and the order of supernature, or the order of grace. When I speak of the...
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7th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 23, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon When Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate, Pilate asked whether he was a king. Far from denying his kingship, Jesus defined his kingship in a...
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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 9, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Jesus Christ, was proclaimed as the light of revelation to the Gentiles. (Lk...
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The Presentation of the Lord
Preached February 2, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Today we have the joy of celebrating the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, an event we are familiar with...
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3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 26, 2020 The past two Sundays we have focused on the theme of baptism and the supernatural life of grace that God gives us through baptism. Today, we have heard Jesus call Peter,...
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2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 19, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday we celebrated the Baptism of the Lord and this Sunday, the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Gospel continues on the same...
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The Baptism of the Lord
Preached January 12, 2020; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In our contemporary society we have become very accustomed to think in terms of ‘rights’. Justice ceases to be something that I owe to...
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Epiphany
Where is the newborn King of the Jews … we have come to worship him. The Magi come from the east to worship the Infant Jesus, recognizing in him not just a man, not...