I used this text as follows to do a very short introduction and tour of the 150 Psalms in a parish presentation. A more readable PDF version was posted HERE on the St. John Vianney Parish website. Psalms copied from World English Bible with Deuterocanon( https://ebible.org/eng-web/)All in the public domain.All symbols visible within the text indicate …
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The Catholic Church has an extensive set of teachings about love, and marriage, and sexuality. These teachings are quite articulate. But again, they are vast because they are “extensive.” So, the summaries and impressions often shared about these teachings can easily go astray from what are our religious beliefs, or moral principles, really are in …
Greetings! This post is for the sake of pictures. Having just returned from the Mission trip to Lima Peru with Bishop Rice Memorial High School, I am merely putting down a few highlights, and then posting pictures without much comment. To really get the sense of the pilgrimage, the service, and the adventure of this …
Today we celebrate the feast of the Presentation. Our celebration of Christmas Day was 40 days ago. Christian history places today, February 2nd, as the day that Jesus was brought to the temple by Mary and Joseph, as we just heard in our Gospel. There are many themes that are worth noting. There are hints …
–+ 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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
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