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Dec 2018
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 place. Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate, Herod, Philip, Lysanias, Annas and Caiaphas, with the possible exception of Lysanias, are all known of from historical sources outside of the Bible. This is important. Our faith is founded upon real events that happened in a determined time and place. True Christians have always been able to give a straightforward answer......
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December 03, 2018
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...
November 26, 2018
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...
November 19, 2018
33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 18, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon This 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time could be called ‘End of the World Sunday’, but we want always to remember that of that day...
November 12, 2018
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 11, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon Once again this Sunday we have heard from the Letter to the Hebrews. Last Sunday I spoke about the importance of that Letter for...
November 05, 2018
31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached November 4, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon During the course of the last month our 2nd reading has been taken from the Letter to the Hebrews and that will continue for...
November 02, 2018
All Saints (Noon Mass)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter’s Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon (Noon Mass) In today’s Psalm response we all said, Lord, this is the people who long to see your face. The saints in heaven,...
November 02, 2018
All Saints (Spanish Mass)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon (Translated from Spanish) In today’s 1st reading we heard about the saints in heaven that they have passed through the great distress and have...
November 02, 2018
All Saints (to the students of St. Mary’s Academy)
Preached November 1, 2018; St. Peter’s Catholic Church, The Dalles (to the students of St. Mary’s Academy) Yesterday was Halloween. The word is short for “All Hallows Eve”. Just as Christmas Eve leads into Christmas...
October 29, 2018
30th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Preached October 28, 2018; St. Peter Catholic Church, The Dalles, Oregon In today’s Gospel the blind beggar Bartimaeus begs Jesus for his sight, receives vision, and follows him upon the way to Jerusalem. Jesus tells...