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Fr. Lawrence
February 16, 2024
Friends, We began our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday. This first Sunday of Lent now leads us immediately into Jesus’s journey into the desert in prayer, fasting, and facing temptation. The first reading reminds us of the journey of God’s chosen people….
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Fr. Lawrence
February 9, 2024
Friends, The theme of today’s readings is God’s loving compassion and healing. To us, is a call to be caring, pure, and holy. Two of the readings speak of leprosy, a disease that can now be cured but, at the…
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Fr. Lawrence
February 4, 2024
Friends, This Sunday, the readings invite us to examine human suffering more deeply. It is only through Christ that our pain and despair can and will be transformed. Like the suffering people in today’s Gospel, we all long for Christ….
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Homily
Fr. Lawrence
January 26, 2024
Friends, “O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden, not your heart.” This Sunday, we can take the psalm as the interpretive key to our readings. The response: O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden, not…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 19, 2024
Friends, Today, as the Church celebrates this third Sunday, the ‘Sunday of the Word of God,’ we are reminded that Christ Jesus is knocking at our door in the words of sacred scripture. If we hear his voice and open the…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 12, 2024
Friends, Today’s readings conclude the feast of Christmas and begin the new season of Ordinary Time. The scripture texts of today’s liturgy depict stories of call and response. In the first reading, we hear the Lord’s dramatic call of Samuel and how…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 6, 2024
Friends, On this Sunday, we celebrate the feast of Christ, the light of the world, and his manifestation to all peoples. The image of light takes us back to Christmas night when the liturgy was sung with these words, “Today,…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 5, 2024
Friends, Today, we are pleased to celebrate the Holy family, acknowledging with joy that God is pleased to become a member of the family. Through the birth of his Son Jesus in a family of Mary and Joseph, God…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 3, 2024
Homily on the feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph December 31, 2023 Friends, A few days ago, we celebrated the feast of the Nativity of our Lord. This great solemnity continues to evoke our joy and…
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Fr. Lawrence
January 3, 2024
Homily on the Christmas mass during the day December 25, 2023 Friends, On this holiest day when we remember and celebrate how God’s love took human form in the baby Jesus, the Psalmist continues with great wonder and joy to…
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