Homily for Palm Sunday of Lent (April 1, 2012)
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Summary: Which crowd are we going to be? Are we going to be the crowd that welcomes Jesus into Jerusalem with great fanfare or are we going to be the crowd influenced by the chief priests and yell, “Crucify Him. Crucify Him.” There were probably lots of people who were in both crowds. So are we going to stand up for Jesus, or be swayed by the crowd and yell, “Crucify Him. Crucify Him.”?
Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (March 25, 2012)
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Summary: We too are called to believe in not just Jesus’ resurrection, but our own. We too are called to love God so that we can rise from our earthly death to spend eternity with Him in Heaven. God wants to raise us up from where ever we are; from whatever spiritual deaths or illness we have. He wants to give us His spirit so that, like Lazarus, we can rise to new life
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent (March 18, 2012)
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Summary: For this homily, I asked the young kids to come up and sit at the bottom of the steps. So the questions in this homily were asked of the kids sitting there. Love, in a fallen world, demands sacrifices of us. Jesus shows us infinite love when He sacrifices everything on the Cross for us. Jesus sacrifices Himself on the Cross to give us the grace not just so that we can have faith in Him, but that we can be transformed into the holy persons He created us to be. (See Ephesians 2:8-10 from the second reading)
Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent (March 11, 2012)
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Summary: The Ten Commandments give us kind of a bare minimum of what we need to not do. However, Jesus wants us to give us the grace to not just know what to do, but to give us the strength, fortitude, and ability to do it, to be the best, the morally good people He created us to be.
Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent (March 4, 2012)
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Summary: If we want to live life to the full, we need to wake up from our spiritual sleep walking. If we do, if we spend time in prayer, then we too can be transfigured this Lent.
Homily for the First Sunday of Lent (February 26, 2012)
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We cannot get rid of our bad habits on our own. With God though, anything is possible. God really can remove our defects of character. Ask God to do so, so that come Easter morning, we too can rise to new life
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Homily for Ash Wednesday (February 22, 2012)
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Fasting is a very useful tool in our journey to holiness. It teaches us to be in control of our desires instead of our desires being in control of us. When our desires are in control of us, it is called addiction. Fasting is only required by those Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59. Abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and other Fridays of Lent is required by those who are 14 years of age and older.
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Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 19, 2012)
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Jesus is able to heal the paralytic because of his friends’ faith. We too need to intercede for each other in prayer.
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Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 12, 2012)
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Jesus is not infected with leprosy, but instead, by His touch, the leper is healed. We need to be holy so that we, with God’s grace, we can heal the world instead of the world infecting us.
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