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1st Sunday of Lent
Preached March 10, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil for forty days. So also, led by the Holy Spirit,...
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8th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached March 3, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Can a blind person lead a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? Jesus’ words here could be alarming. In this life...
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7th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 24, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon St. Paul writes in one place: rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. (Rm 12:15) In another place he gives the...
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6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 17, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable of all people. The words of St. Paul are...
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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached February 10, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s 1st reading we meet with one of the great theophanies or visions of God recorded in the Old Testament. The theophany takes...
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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....