Sunday Homilies
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from Father Kevin Laughery, Troy St. Jerome and St. Jacob St. James Parishes, Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Note: Comments from this page do not reach me; instead, email: kl@kevinlaughery.com
Episodes
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 12, 2023
01/03/2023 Duration: 08minA discussion of the reality of free will.
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 5, 2023
01/03/2023 Duration: 10minJesus says, "Let your light shine"; but he also says "Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing." Does he contradict himself?
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 29, 2023
01/02/2023 Duration: 08minJesus begins his Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes: promises that we will be happy even if it seems we are out of step with what most of the world is doing.
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 22, 2023
01/02/2023 Duration: 08minThis is the Sunday of the Word of God, and we begin our year-long reading from the Gospel of Matthew with Jesus' choosing of his first four disciples.
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 15, 2023
01/02/2023 Duration: 08minWe are getting started with the long expanse of Ordinary Time and particularly with a continuous reading from Paul's first letter to the Christians of Corinth, Greece.
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Mary, Mother of God, January 1, 2023
01/02/2023 Duration: 10minThe Bishop of Rome Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI, died yesterday. His resignation in 2013 provided an example to all of us that we all must acknowledge our limits. Mary's identity as "Mother of God" means that she is pointing to her Son and encouraging us to greater amazement at his identity as truly God and truly human.
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Christmas Mass during the Day, December 25, 2022
01/02/2023 Duration: 10minIn our age of information, the Scriptures for Christmas Day are all about the Word who says everything to us.
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Second Sunday of Advent, December 4, 2022
01/02/2023 Duration: 08minAdvent points us to completion and fulfillment. What do we think such fulfillment will look like?
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First Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2022
01/02/2023 Duration: 12minEntering the privileged time of Advent, we are invited into timelessness and the possibility of doing something productive with our swords.
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Christ the King, November 20, 2022
31/01/2023 Duration: 11minPlease note: A number of Sundays are missing. I know that I left the device at home on the Third Sunday of Advent, when I pointed out a crescendo in what the prophets and the Gospels were saying about "the one who is to come." Other Sundays, the deacon preached. Kingship and kinship: Christ is King of humanity because he has identified with our lowest ebb.
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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 6, 2022
16/11/2022 Duration: 07minThe Sadducees did not believe in eternal life; therefore, they were sad, you see.
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Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 30, 2022
16/11/2022 Duration: 10minLast weekend, the deacon preached. -- If we think about sin, we must also think about mercy, forgiveness, and healing.
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 16, 2022
16/11/2022 Duration: 08minPrayer is not for the sake of controlling God. We must immerse ourselves in prayer so that we may discover how to be united with our God.
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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 9, 2022
16/11/2022 Duration: 11minThe story of Naaman inspires us to consider failures of imagination and the concept of local gods.
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Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 2, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 08minAgain, the homilist must have forgotten to record September 18. Too bad; it built on an earlier Sunday's pronouncement that life is not a game. On September 25, the deacon preached. -- We need to become more comfortable with the statement "We are unprofitable servants" so that we will wait actively for "the vision."
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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 11, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 09minThe weekend of September 4, the homilist was in Paris and North Arm while their priest made a Mission Co-op appeal in the homilist's parishes on behalf of his diocese in Rwanda. -- The stories of Luke 15 can be revisited countless times, and they do not get old. God's mercy does not make sense -- but we know we need it.
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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 28, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 10minJesus is not giving an etiquette lesson. He is asking us why we are so concerned about status when people who cannot gain any such status need to be responded to.
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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 21, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 09minThe homilist must have failed to record August 14, shortly after his mother's funeral. -- Anyway, LIFE IS NOT A GAME and is, in fact, BETTER than a game.
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 7, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 10minThe homilist preached on the short form of the Gospel, seeing no need to talk about beatings.
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 31, 2022
02/10/2022 Duration: 09minAfter three weeks away, because of a visit to Guatemala and the souvenir he brought back (Covid), the homilist returns and considers the vanity-content of our lives.