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Fr. Bob’s Homily – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
I want you to put aside all the preconceived mental and emotional images we have of Jesus. Forget too all the doctrines and titles about Him.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
At a 25th wedding anniversary reception, the husband, who had perhaps had a little too much to drink, began thanking the crowd for coming.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Failure is a fact of life, it happens to all of us. We try to do something, but fall short of the goal. The experience comes in all shapes and sizes.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
None of us like to be deceived. Most of us would rather have the truth, even though it may be unpleasant. Most of us would rather our doctor be honest with us even if the news is bad. Or a teacher letting us know when our child is failing rather than let us think all is well.
FR. BOB’S HOMILY – THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In our second reading today you heard a letter from Paul to the Corinthians, and I would not be surprised if you knew absolutely nothing about the city of Corinth. Corinth was a cosmopolitan city. People flocked there from all regions of the Roman Empire.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
It is a funny feeling today. We come into the Church that is still lively, but strangely different. The crib is back in storage, the wise men have returned to the east, the shepherds to their flocks, the angels have stopped singing, and the star has disappeared. Christmas is a memory.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Baptism of Jesus
We read about Peter in our second reading. Word comes to him that a Centurion of the Roman guard named Cornelius, a Gentile and therefore in the eyes of the Jews an unclean man, wished to be baptized.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Epiphany 2022
Some years ago I saw a play called “Down Will Come Baby.” As the play opens, the husband is taking down the Christmas tree.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Feast of the Holy Family
Today is the Feast of the Holy Family. Fortunately, most of us value the gift of family. We treasure it and understand its importance for both society and Church.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fourth Sunday in Advent
Why all this fuss over the birth of a child in a small, insignificant part of the Roman Empire? What difference does Jesus make? To start with, His birthday marks the division of human history into B.C., before Christ, and A.D., Anno Domini, after Christ.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Third Sunday in Advent
There it is, right at the beginning of this Gospel, the perennial human question: what should we do? Very few of us escape that question at some time in our lives.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Second Sunday in Advent
Christmas can sneak up on us while we are caught up in the mad whirl of shopping and parties, and then be gone without a trace.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – First Sunday in Advent
It should be no secret to anyone that we do not know the date of Christ’s birth, and so the Church baptized a Pagan feast.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Thirty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus is king because He is what He is. Not a mere man, but the God-man, God with us, God in human form.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
November is a strange time of year. Trees have finally lost their leaves, but winter’s snow has not come full force.