Be opened!
Post for September 6, 2009
My homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (year B) for 2009.
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Wives, be subject to your husbands
Post for August 23, 2009
The above title is a quote from Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Kinda jumps out at you, doesn’t it? And yet, this was a key line from today’s second reading.
I was preaching today, and I decided to tackle this reading head on. Click to listen.
Called to be bread of life
Post for August 9, 2009
My homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (year B).
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Homily: The Meaning of Life (15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
Post for July 12, 2009
Yeah, yeah, I know: as homiles go, it has an ambitious title. But Ephesians is an ambitious Pauline letter.
You can listen by clicking on this link.
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Two homilies for the price of one
Post for April 19, 2009
As I was preaching this morning, I experienced something that many preachers know: the unexpected homily. This occurs when a person has prepared one homily, but in the course of giving it something you can’t quite explain takes over and a quite different homily emerges.
Well, I liked the results, so in the time between masses I listened to the audio recording and prepared a new set of homily notes so as to be able to give a repeat performance. The only thing was, as I started to speak from the notes yet another different homily emerged. It was very odd! The one homily I had prepared became two other — and quite different — homilies.
So here you have it: a chance to listen to what a difference the “unexpected homily” makes:
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