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Deacon Kevin: Transfiguration
2nd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A, 5 March 2023 In today’s Gospel, we have the incredible story of the Transfiguration, which is a manifestation of the divine Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, and a preview of His resurrection on Easter. As awesome as this event is, we must not lose sight of the…
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Deacon Dan: Transfiguration
Transfiguration, an event so great that we remember it twice. Every year on this Second Sunday of Lent and each ear on August 6 we are presented with an accounting of this mountain moment experienced by Peter, James, John. Annually we ascend the mountain, to witness again the Transfiguration of Jesus, just as annually we…
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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
By Deacon Dan Laurita On this fifth Sunday of OT, we continue our slow motion hearing of the famed Sermon on the Mount as written about in Matthews gospel. Last week we heard the Beatitudes, which in in essence provide us with the rewards and the Cost of Discipleship. We heard, for example, that if…
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Salt and Light
Deacon Kevin Brady / 5th Sunday in OT, Cycle A, 5 Feb 2023 You are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. That’s what Jesus calls His disciples in today’s Gospel. He uses two very ordinary things and elevates what we are called to be. Salt is a very common substance,…
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Deacon Dan: Mary, Mother of God
Mark Anthony stood before the funeral bier of Julius Caesar where he in oratorical tone pronounced: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. In one sense, on this January 1 we gather at saloons, in ball rooms, and the homes of friends to bury…
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Deacon Dan: Word of God Sunday
We homilists have been given a special task for this third Sunday of OT that has been designated as “Word of God” Sunday by Pope Francis since he issued his 2019 Apostolic Letter AperuitIllis (he opened their minds). But before I begin that special task let me provide a quick synopsis for today’s readings- The first reading…
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Word of God Sunday
By Deacon Kevin Brady 3rd in OT, Cycle A, 22 Jan 2023 In his Apostolic Letter instituting the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time as Word of God Sunday, Pope Francis wrote: The Lord has colored His Word with diverse beauties, so that those who study it can contemplate what stirs them. He has hidden in…
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Mary, Mother of God
By Deacon Kevin Brady Cycle A, 1 Jan 2023 Happy New Year! With that out of the way, we can turn our attention to Mary, the Holy Mother of God, who’s feast we celebrate today. Two words come to mind: comfort and peace. Now, when I think of my own mother, I think of the…
Homilies from St. John’s
Words to challenge and inspire you from our deacons at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Madison, Alabama.
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