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Monday, November 18, 2024

Homily: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

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Readings: Dan 12:1-3; Ps 16; Heb 10:11-14,18; Mk 13:24-32 About 30 years ago, as a group of us celebrated a friend’s 50 th birthday, her ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Homily: Mass and Healing Service - Tuesday 32nd Week in Ordinary Time

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Good evening, everyone…and praise God – praise Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It’s wonderful to see so many here tonight; all open to God’s he...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Blessings and More

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Because The Villages, our community here in central Florida, is so very large and still expanding, our parish receives many new parishioners...

Homily: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

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Readings: Is 53:10-11; Ps 33; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 ______________________________ One hot summer day in 1941, in the infamous death ...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Signs of Truth

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Often enough, people don’t want to hear the truth, especially when it’s stark and perhaps a bit frightening, the kind of truth that denies ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Bible Study Notice

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Just a brief announcement for those who participate in our parish Bible Study: Our Wednesday morning session (10 am on October 9) is cancele...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Birthday and Life

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A few weeks ago, on Friday the 13th, I celebrated a birthday, my 80th, and I’m slowly coming to terms with it all. I suppose, from one persp...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Homily: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Timne - Year B

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Readings: Is 50:5-9a; Ps 116; Ja 2:14-18; Mk 8-27-35 _____________________________   “Who do you say that I am?” An interesting que...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Homily: Silver Rose Prayer Service

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Readings: 2 Cor 9:24-27; Ps 63; Luke 1:26-38 ____________________ About 1,600 years ago, way back in the year 431 the Council of Ephesus g...
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Deacon Dana
The Villages, Florida, United States
I'm a permanent deacon of the Roman Catholic Church, incardinated in the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, but now living and ministering in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. I'm also a retired naval aviator, educator, and business consultant. Born in Bridgeport, CT, I was brought up in Larchmont, NY, and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, NY, graduating in 1962. I spent a year at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, but then managed to get an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, from which I graduated in 1967. The Navy taught me to fly and sent me to graduate school. Afterwards I taught computer science at Annapolis for several years. I did lots of other strange things in the years that followed. Politically -- perhaps more accurately, philosophically -- I'm a Russell Kirk conservative in most things. More importantly, though, I am husband of the beautiful Diane, the father of four, and grandfather of nine.
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