–+ These summary reflections were written for a 5 week Bible Study +– Acts Chapters 1-4. In this our first session we are reading the first four chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. The summary headings for each of the events, taken from our New American Bible edition (NAB), name the following events: -The …
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The Bread of Life Discourse and Marriage in Ephesians Ch. 5
This is a transcript, slightly touched up but rather unpolished, of my Sunday Homily on August 18th. The livestream replay can be viewed here. + + + Let me jump into the bread of life discourse. First of all, just to affirm in a very straightforward theological way, the Church takes the words of Jesus …
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Rice Memorial High School Service Trip to Peru
Several “service trips” from Rice High School have gone to Peru in the past decades. In our 2024 (Feb. 22nd-March 3rd) service trip, our 9 Rice students, 3 chaperones, and 1 priest (yours truly), made the trek to work at two service locations. Personal accounts of mine follow. {Note: some of the inserted pictures are …
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Scriptural Series: Eucharistic Reflections on the Acts of the Apostles
A completed series of Scriptural lessons is posted on a playlist in my YouTube Channel. They are Eucharistic Reflections on the Acts of the Apostles. The final one has been finished, here in Lent 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AMj0rsMLE&list=PLPhaJuyvd13dXlzhI9ryz4xVq17nfvyVl The entire playlist covers the following: Basic Scriptures in Luke and Acts about the Eucharist The Ascension and the …
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Are you a fan of The Chosen?
This morning I was reading The City of God by venerable Mary of Agreda. I would say forthrightly the chapter I read was more engaging and more thought-provoking than the TV series The Chosen. That’s my context for the question. Are you a fan of The Chosen? The first clarification is that I like The …
Holy Thursday Homily, 2023
This Mass for Holy Thursday captures historically three themes of our salvation. The first one is the presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. This is something that could be emphasized in any particular Mass; but, Holy Thursday IS when Jesus first gave the Eucharist to us, as a gift of love, the sacrament of …
Saint John Vianney Parish, livestream service.
South Burlington Vermont Homily from 8:00am Mass, Sunday July 3. Audio only, no video. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8_LQgI44DE-3k07K32KWFQ St. John Vianney Parish; S Burlington, VT – YouTube
The Language of Sex and Gender and Trans
It is not so much that trans advocates, or persons who take the identification of trans-man, or trans-woman, are picking a fight with the biological designations of genetic inheritance, reproductive capacities, or gamete functioning. They are claiming rather, by the use of the word “trans,” that these chemical or biological realities have no social importance and no desirable bearing or impact on their life. We may try to describe the claims as a-biological, verses anti-biological or anti-science. They are moral claims, and not ontological claims.
The Women in the Acts of the Apostles
This post has been proofread only lightly. Women of the Church in the Acts of the Apostles By Fr. Timothy Naples The women in the Acts of the Apostles are depicted as truly active personages. They are sometimes presented to us by Saint Luke as if being introduced to us like a person already known …
Are the unborn a “class” of people?
I’ll make this brief. There’s just one video I wish to share, and since the embed options are allowed on said video, I will put it in this blog post. I have recently commented on THIS Vermont Voter referendum, Proposition 5, (in my last blog post, albeit by many indirect means). I share a few …
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