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4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 3, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon We meet with a rather unusual juxtaposition of readings in today’s Mass. For bookends we have the 1st reading from Jeremiah and the Gospel....
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3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 26, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon I am not impressed by computers and smart phones. Though they can serve as instruments for the communication of human knowledge, they are dumb...
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3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Catholic School Week Mass)
Preached January 27, 2016; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s 1st reading we heard that some 2,500 years ago in the city of Jerusalem the whole assembly of the people, men, women,...
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2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached January 20, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s Gospel, Jesus’ works a miracle – his first – performing thereby a simple act of kindness for a couple on their wedding...
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Baptism of the Lord
Preached January 13, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday, in the celebration of the Epiphany, the infant Jesus, the Son of God, was revealed as a light shining to the nations....
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Epiphany
Preached January 6, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Christmas is a celebration of the true light coming into a world darkened by sin. Christmas celebrates the light of Jesus Christ, the Son...
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Holy Mother of God
Preached January 1, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon As we begin the New Year the Church celebrates the beginning of our salvation with the Solemnity of the Holy Mother of God. Outside...
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Holy Family
Preached December 30, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Jesus Christ came into the light of day the same way we all did; he was born of a woman. He entered a human...
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Christmas Day
Preached December 25, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Christmas is a time of dreams of ‘peace on earth’, but with each passing year we seem to be farther from the reality. Perhaps...
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Christmas Eve (Mass in the Night)
Preached December 24, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Let me begin with my personal recollections. I grew up without any religion, but still I can remember the magical Christmases of my childhood,...