Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Paddy Cole, R.I.P.

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It's not often you meet someone, quite accidentally, enjoy and hour or so with them, and then later discover they're really quite fa...

Homily: Tuesday, 20th week in Ordinary Time (Year 1)

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Readings : Jgs 6:11-24a • Ps 85 • Mt 19:23-30 __________________________ Today’s readings always make me more than a little uncomfortable....

Homily: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Readings: Jer 38:4-6,8-10; Ps 40; Heb 12:1-4, 8-19; Lk 12:49-53 As a deacon and an old, retired Navy Captain, I’m often asked to conduct c...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Jim Lovell, R.I.P.

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We lost a truly remarkable man on Thursday. Jim Lovell, Navy Captain, Naval Aviator, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and all-around terrific gu...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Homily: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Readings Gn 18:1-10a; Ps 15; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 ____________________ Over 21 years ago, shortly after we moved to The Villages, my w...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Healing Service Homily: Tuesday, 15th Week in Ordinary Time

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Readings: Ex 2:1-15a; Ps: 69 ; Mt 11:20-24 ____________________ Good evening, everyone…and praise God – praise Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
Monday, June 16, 2025

A Dictatorship of Relativism

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Twenty years ago, just a few days before he was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger preached the homily at the M...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Homily: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

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Readings: Prv 8:22-31 ; Ps 8:4-9; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15 __________________________ First, to all the fathers out there, and to the grandf...