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Homily
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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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 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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Homily
Fr. Lawrence
December 22, 2023
Friends, This year, the Fourth Sunday of Advent is swallowed up in Christmas Eve. Perhaps we can celebrate it early so as not to lose the riches of this final week: the Lord is very near. In our first reading, God does…
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Homily
Fr. Lawrence
December 17, 2023
Friends, ‘Rejoice! The Lord is near.’ The readings on this Gaudete (‘Rejoice!’) Sunday are full of encouragement, resonating with joyful hope as we draw closer to the birthday of Jesus: God’s Son coming to live amongst us. Isaiah, Mary, and John the…
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