Friday, December 27, 2013

Jesus brings to birth a self-multiplying joy – 1 John 1:1-4

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Feast of St. John ; Holy Cross Parish. Is there any joy like seeing a smile on the face of someone you love?  And what makes us smile, bu...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

God feeds us – Luke 2:15-20; Isa 62:11-12

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Christmas homily, using the Mass At Dawn readings  (shepherds!); Holy Cross parish. An infant lying in a manger: we’re so used to seeing ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

God dreams a new dream in us – Matt 1:18-24

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4th Sunday of Advent, Year A; Holy Cross Parish.  An experiment with imagining Joseph's perspective. You start to push the wooden blo...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

God makes bloom our deserts – Matt 11:2-11, Isa 35:1-6a, 10

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Third Sunday of Advent, Year A ; Holy Cross Parish. “Here is your God.”  Behold, your God.  Those are the words we heard from the book of...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

God shepherds us – Ps 80, John of the Cross

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Saturday of Advent, Week 2 ; St. Stanislaus. “Oh shepherd of Israel, hear us.”  A name; a request.  That’s the simple way in which Psalm ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

God strengthens the weary – Isa 40:25-31

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Wednesday of Advent 2 ; Holy Cross Parish. Being tired and weary is rarely something that gets extolled in Christian preaching.  But in...
Friday, December 6, 2013

God’s coming to us in just a little while – Isa 29:17-24; Matt 9:27-31

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Friday of the first week of Advent ; Holy Cross Parish. In the science museum in New York, there’s a spiral walkway you can walk along, w...