Homilies

This Sunday Fr summarize the Readings and introduced the Archbishop's Appeal Video.  Both are recorded to the right.

On the Second week of Lent, the Church always offers us the story of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor from the Synoptics. This week, Mark has more than one sentence to offer us. And from the clouds, as at the Baptism, we hear
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The lectionary of Mass Readings is on a 3-year cycle.  Each year features one of the synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, or Luke.  They are very similar in many respects and tell a lot of the same stories of Jesus’s life.  And each year, the first Sunday of Lent tells us the story of the Temptation of Jesus in the Desert, just as He is starting His ministry. 

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Medical advances in the past hundred years or so have made leprosy more or less obsolete.  You rarely hear of a case, and even if it happens, it’s easily cured.  But, of course, that was not the case in ancient times.  Leprosy was the scourge of the planet, slowly gnawing away at skin and limb...

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I want you all to search deep in your memory banks and try to remember your childhood.  This will be easier for some of you than for others.  How many of you remember... Winnie the Pooh?  You know, the loveable plump little honey bear, who was the friend of Christopher Robin.  And do you also recall Pooh’s Pal, the donkey, Eeyore?
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We’re all familiar with the old DC comic characters Batman and Robin; The millionaire Bruce Wayne and his trusty ward Dick Grayson, who at the beckoning of the Bat Beam sent out by the Police Commissioner, Gordon, would slide down the Bat Pole into the Bat Cave where they parked the Bat Mobile and then whisk away to fight crime and corruption, and save Gotham City.  
     
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The common thread in Today’s readings seems to be Responding. 

The Ninevites respond to Jonah’s message by putting on sackcloth and ashes. 

The Apostles respond to Jesus’s call by abandoning their nets and leaving even their father behind. 

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In today’s Gospel from Mark, John is administering a baptism of repentance at the Jordan River.  When Jesus came to John, Matthew tells us that he protested, saying, “I need to be baptized by YOU, and yet, you come to me.”  And we may wonder also, Why would the sinless Christ, need to be baptized?  READ MORE