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What is Mass For?
Most of you have used a hammer. If you think about a hammer, you realize that the purpose of a hammer is to reach an outcome through the hammer. You don’t just have a hammer; the hammer is for something. The hammer is for nails being driven into wood. Today, St. Paul’s letter to the Continue reading
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Duc in Altum
This morning at Mass, the contemplative priest whose homilies resonate so deeply in my interior, preached on the Gospel of Luke chapter 5, verses 1-11. This is a familiar story, the one about Jesus encountering Peter and James and John on the shore of the lake of Genesareth. Peter, James and John have fished all Continue reading
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Peter and Paul
We celebrate today the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul rather than the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Why are they so important that their feast, which is always on June 29th, overwhelms the regular Sunday cycle? Each Saint is important to the Church, and each has had another feast day in the Church calendar Continue reading
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A Church Goverened by the Holy Spirit
With the recent Papal election still fresh in our minds, we read of the Council of Jerusalem from Acts’ Chapter 15 today. It is Scriptural confirmation about the governance of the Church. As we have moved from the reign of Pope Francis to the reign of Pope Leo XIV, it is a timely reading to Continue reading
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Shea Week Eleven
In a Christendom age, a deeper conversion to Christ usually means taking more seriously the moral teaching of the church. In such an age, there’s not much argument over dogmatic teachings. Everyone believes that there is a God and there’s a heaven and hell and there are angels and demons and there’s going to be Continue reading
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Shea Week Ten
Since the church is no longer in the heart of the broader culture, it can do little by means of the traditional methods of diplomacy, developing relationships and maintaining influential positions. We don’t have any influential positions anymore. But we can still be witnesses. Consider the witness of Mother Teresa. She spent her life treating Continue reading
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Shea Week Nine
That’s not to say that we won’t have quirky charismatic leaders in an apostolic age. The church needs to be ready for some energetic messiness if she wants to remain alive and capture the wider culture. Because the age of Christendom is no more, church administrators should probably not waste too much time trying to Continue reading
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Shea Week Eight
Practices that incarnate the Christian vision The world is somewhat blind to the spiritual reality that is actually more real than what the world sees. So part of our mission is to have the spiritual world become a living force in our minds and manifested in our lives. We have to become those witnesses that Continue reading
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Divine Mercy
Today is the last day in the Octave of Easter. Like the last day in the Octave of Christmas, this day has taken on a larger title. Whereas on January 1st we celebrate both the end of the Octave of Christmas and the feast of Mary Mother of God, today we celebrate both the end Continue reading
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The First Word 2025
Good Friday 1st Word Jesus was led along with two criminals to be crucified. When they came to the Place of the Skull, as it was called, they crucified him there and the criminals as well, one on his right and the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not Continue reading
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