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31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 3, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Last Sunday we heard Jesus tell a parable involving a tax collector. Today we heard about a real life encounter between a chief tax...
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All Saints Day
Preached November 1, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon I will begin with a comment on Halloween. There is a lot of controversy about Halloween. Some Christians say that celebrating Halloween is a...
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30th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 27, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Today’s parable about the Pharisee and the tax-collector is meant for people who are serious about the practice of their faith. Jesus is not...
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29th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 20, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s Gospel Jesus gives us a lesson about the need to pray always without becoming weary. At the end of the lesson he...
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28th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 13, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon A typical homily for today might talk about the importance of giving thanks to God in all the little things of our daily life....
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27th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 6, 2019; St. Peter’s Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s 1st reading the prophet Habakkuk cries out to God with the perennial human complaint. It is not only that I suffer unjustly,...
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26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 29, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon There was a lady, now deceased, whom I knew many years ago. Shortly after my baptism at age 20 she commented on how she...
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24th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 15, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon During the course of history and in the world today we meet with two widespread, distorted images of God: the image of the angry...
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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 8, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Powerful people in the world get together to make plans and pursue their agendas: We have the United Nations, the G-7 or G-20, the...
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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached September 1, 2019; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Both today’s 1st reading and Gospel speak about the indispensable Christian virtue of humility. Without humility we have no connection to God; without humility...