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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,...
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4th Sunday of Advent
Preached December 23, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Today, on this 4th Sunday of Advent, we are presented with the Gospel of the Visitation. We witness one of the simplest, most common,...
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3rd Sunday of Advent
Preached December 16, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon To be honest, the message of today’s Mass, the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Advent’s Sunday of Joy, might be a bit irritating. Rejoice in...
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2nd Sunday of Advent
Preached December 9, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon The opening of today’s Gospel fixes a very definite time in history making reference to the political and religious order of the time and...
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1st Sunday of Advent
Preached December 2, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This Holiday Season I am thinking I might be a bit of a Grinch. I am not going to put out a ‘Keep Christ...
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Christ the King
Preached November 25, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This past week I came across a couple of commentaries speaking about how foreign the celebration of Christ the King appears to a democratic...