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Good News, Bad News, Who Can Say? – Homily for Gaudete Sunday

Today is Gaudete Sunday, Rejoice Sunday. We light the rose colored candle. We hear words like rejoice and be glad. And yet, maybe many of us arrive here a little tired. Advent days are dark. The world is loud.
This season that’s supposed to be joyful is often when things feel the heaviest, the most stressful. Which makes today’s readings comforting. Because every one of them speaks to us right where we are. Not to people who have it all figured out, not to people whose lives are all...

Grandmother and Granddaughter

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Eli, John and Andrew – Homily for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

In the first reading we hear that “Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD.” Now that doesn’t mean you get to sleep here in church during the homily! But we do have something in common with Samuel: at one point, we, too, were not familiar with the Lord. Samuel is called three times, but he does not recognize who is it is. It is the priest Eli who helps him understand that it is the Lord who is calling. In the gospel, too, Andrew and an...

Candle in the Dark

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A Candle Cannot Light Itself – Homily for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today’s readings come straight at us. Isaiah might just as well have said: “You are my servant, people of St. Peter Parish, through whom I show my glory….I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” Paul speaks to the Corinthians, but also to us: “Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the church of God that is at St. Peter’s, to you who have been sanctified in Christ...