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The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
If they had said it once, they had said it a hundred times. Mom and dad had said it time and time again: no playing ball in the house! Certainly,…
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The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
It seemed like a semi-regular occurrence on the farm. I or my dad would be working on something, perhaps the plumbing or perhaps some of our equipment. We’d arrive at…
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The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Many of you have likely heard about my past experiences as an organist, and perhaps have even heard me play at some point before. Now, while the way that I…
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The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
It was a routine occurrence, every single Saturday. That day would arrive, and I and my brothers would have all sorts of ambitious plans! However, they were being held up…
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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This past Monday, we celebrated the memorial of Saint Dominic, who, as you may be able to deduce, was the founder of the Dominican order. There are many different depictions…
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
With all of the heat, I am often thinking about what this meant on the farm: it was hay season. The work that we were taking on would shift dramatically.…
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The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
While I was in seminary, I was one of the “IT support guys” that would be around campus. While there were a lot of things that we could do, one…
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The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
It was a number of years ago in the seminary, the year was 2020. Early in that springtime, there I was, sitting, waiting by the mailbox. It wasn’t because I…
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The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
I've always found the last line of this particular Gospel to be quite interesting: "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind…
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Trinity Sunday
If I were to describe my original home parish to you, back in Fredericktown, Missouri, there are many features I could tell you about. I could talk about the granite…