Palm Sunday (B) 2024 INTRO: Saint Peter’s Basilica is HUGE! Everything inside likewise……. HUGE in size. It’s awesome to behold and I was fortunate in 2008 to spend a considerable three month sabbatical in Rome and I visited this wonderful Basilica MANY, MANY, TIMES! I want to point out that the Altar of sacrifice, under […]

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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time B 2024 INTRO: Sadness can be a difficult part of life. No one wants to be sad. They say, “one can be sad even in a crowded room”! Even in this crowded room? THE REALITY……. There are sad people in our community. Easy question…… Who were the two main characters […]

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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2024 INTRO In the year ahead the Gospels at Mass will hear JESUS speak often of the “kingdom of God.” What does that mean to you… this KINGDOM OF GOD? It always has been said that we are supposed to live it, create it while on this earth. Jesus […]

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2024 INTRO: In today’s Gospel the apostles are invited to LOOK AND SEE who is before them…… to recognize who it is in their midst! And what that truly means is: We are to RECOGNIZE IDENTIFY AND DETECT all that is valuable in every human being that are all […]

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Second Sunday of Advent (B) 2023 INTRO: How many of you HAVE CERTAIN WAY TO DO THE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS??? I always am criticized as to the way I do them!! Has that criticism ever happen to you? IN REALITY ALL OF US are OPEN TO CRITICISM! Is the criticism, right? Was it fair? Should […]

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32 Sunday in Ordinary Time 2023 (A) INTRO: Most people “jump the gun” when this Gospel is read and most people, at first, wonder why the wise “virgins” did not share their oil with the foolish ones to keep their torches burning??? They are thinking: “THAT’S NOT VERY CHRIST-LIKE”!!!! Let me explain… The “OIL” is […]

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31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A) 2023 Intro: Last week when you were giving out candy on Halloween you saw “children” in a costume and many of them had their faces covered with masks!!! In a church community we are supposed to be recognizable by others as living a good life…. With NO MASKS COVERING […]

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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: Do you always wear the right thing? You all look nice today…. BUT are you wearing the right outfits?????? The wedding banquet story in Matthew’s gospel has this UNIQUE confrontation of the generous KING with a guest not wearing the “right thing” or the “correct outfit” according […]

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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2023 INTRO: REPENT I always cringe at the word REPENT. It seems so “harsh.” It seems it is directed at someone who had done something BIG. So why am I mentioning this today? Because of: – The first son & – The tax collectors and prostitutes We sort of […]

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