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TRINITY AGAIN AND AGAIN

 

Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday. After celebrating the events of Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost, the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity is so abstract and seemingly removed from our everyday lives that the pews tomorrow morning will be filled with faithful Christians politely stifling yawns. I sense that often the homilist is doing he same. This estrangement from the...

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THE PHYSICS OF PENTECOST

This morning  our Father Maximilian at our community mass gave a homily that I found so interesting that I asked him if I might use it as my post for Pentecost. And so it is with gratitude that I present his words hoping that you will find them as moving as I did.

When I was working as an engineer at the Naval facility in White Oak, MD, a young man in h...


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STRENGTH IN THE SPIRIT

 This week’s post builds on a New Testament verb that I've reflected on before. I’m posting again an old homily with a couple of revisions and insertions, hoping that you might find it useful.

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CATCHING THE SPIRIT
PHILIP AND THE ETHIOPIANA rather well-known passage from Acts was the first reading for mass recently. The story of Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40. It is Luke the consummate story-teller at his best. There are angels, lots of physical action, and a high-ranking and exotic personage who is open to the movement of the Spirit. Philip is portrayed in th...

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LEARNING FROM THE WOMEN
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