Fr. Mike Schmitz
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Fr. Andrew Ricci
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We share the love we have received from Christ
The Lord’s command to love one another requires us to open our hearts to His love first. Simply put, the closer we are to Christ the easier it is for us to share His love with the people in our lives.
Fr. Austin Fleming
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Friend Request from Jesus
(At the Masses I preached this weekend we were welcoming children receiving the Eucharist for the first time, thus the focus of my homily…)
Homiletic Pastoral Review
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Basilica of the National Shrine
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Dominican Blackfriars
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Bishop Robert Barron
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Fr. Charles E. Irvin
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I no longer call you slaves, I call you friends
How do I regard friendship? How do I treat the friends who are in my life? Do I allow God to be my Friend with all of the acceptance, respect and honesty that’s involved in being a true friend? It’s a challenge. Knowing that it is a challenge Jesus sends us the One we need, the One who can empower us and equip us to meet the challenge, the Holy Spirit. He is our Advocate. He is the One who inspires us and counsels us. If we give Him time and attention we can truly follow in the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus, Jesus who has risen from the dead and overcome the worst that the Evil One can throw at us.
Fr. Joe Jagodensky, SDS
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The Streets of Life, Traveling “Blah or Joyful?”
We’re very comfortable and even encouraged to tell tales of anger, disappointments, frustrations; even bitterness in generalizing or personal statements about religion or a
specific church. We even attempt to one up the preceding story told by a friend with our tale of woe. (“Oh, so you thought your story was sad, just listen to mine!”)
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Fr. George Smiga
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Love and Leisure
We find wonder through leisure. It is very important to understand what leisure is. Leisure is not the same thing as entertainment. Entertainment consists of the things we can schedule, a concert, a ballgame, a party, a vacation. But leisure is the ability, a habit of the heart, that allows us to see in those things and in all things, the beauty of creation and the presence of God. Leisure is the attitude that tells us it is not a waste to stop and gaze on a daffodil or to sit quietly for a few minutes and listen to the music of soft falling rain. Leisure tells us that it is important to recognize the beauty of our spouse’s smile and to relish the smell of the garlic in our grandmother’s marinara. Leisure says that there is a high priority to finding a few idle moments in even the busiest of days in which we can simply notice the beauty that surrounds us. The time we take to take that beauty in is not a distraction from life but actually delving into the very heart of living. It is in that moment that we touch the God whose life invigorates all things.
6th Sunday of Easter (Year B) Homilies
Mothers Who Affirm Life
Jesus’ Commandment
To Love as God Loves
The Music of Love
Fr. Anthony Ekpunobi, C.M.
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Msgr. Joseph Pellegrino
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Love, the Heart of Christianity
Is the love of God evident in our own family structures? We have to have rules in our families. Out of love for our children and our teenagers, we have to set guidelines so they can grow, develop, and spread their wings while they are still under our protection. More important than these rules is the reason for their establishment: love. You make rules for your children because you love them. At the same time, we have to be careful that we never allow a rule to destroy love. For example, saying to a teenager: “You know the rule. You broke it. Now get out of this house.” or “You ran off, and now you’re in trouble with the law, don’t even think you can come home. “ or “You broke the rules, you are no longer part of this family,” these and similar decrees are not the ways Christians should act. No good was every accomplished by hiding love behind rules.
Msgr. Charles Pope
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In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude.
I. Church Leaders from the Acts of the Apostles
II. Application of the Principle
III. The Animation of the Principle
Bishop John Louis
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Fr. Michael Chua
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Life Issues
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Love one another as I have loved you.
Frank Enderle
In our society the word ‘love’ is heard everywhere. It is repeated ad nauseum. And, above all, we hear a lot about love of neighbor. “Our neighbors have to be helped” is said repeatedly. Many times I ask myself, “If there is so much love and so much yearning to help others in this world, why do we feel so little love and understanding in the people that we come across every day, in those who are nearest to us and with whom we live?”
Deus Caritas Est
Antonio P. Pueyo
hose who experienced love in its instinctive state of eros may feel a need to go farther forward to that state called caritas-agape.
A Higher Kind of Love
Antonio P. Pueyo
Jesus is more than just a heroic figure to emulate and an image to inspire us. Jesus continues to be a living presence in the world and in His community of friends. The Holy Spirit came down on the household of Cornelius and amazed the disciples that “the Holy Spirit should be poured out on pagans too.” So will the Spirit of Jesus amaze us and urge us to ge beyond what we think we are capable of, even to the point of heroic love.
Filled to the Brim
Proclaim Sermons
Jesus wants us to be completely flooded and fulfilled with joy. Such filling happens when we practice self-giving love.”
Inappropriate Joy (Easter 6)
Proclaim Sermons
Jesus is spending time with the disciples to prepare them for his Passion and the trials they will face. During this teaching (John 14-17), Jesus mentions “joy” five times. Is it appropriate to even mention “joy” when the primary source of that joy is about to leave them? Jesus clearly knew about “joy” in ways that made a profound difference for him and his disciples, and we believe, for us.
SOURCE: LifeIssues.net Homily Archive
Fr. Phil Bloom
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Love One Another – What Does it Mean?
Bottom line: It’s all about Jesus. His love requires humility, thoughtfulness and fidelity: “This I command you: love one another.”
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As the Father loves Jesus, so Jesus loves us
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.” (John 15:9) These words of Jesus that we heard in our Gospel today, are, in a sense, rather startling. “As the Father loves me, so I also love you.” Think of how much the Father loves Jesus. Jesus loves us just as much. This is truly startling. How much does the Father love Jesus? Infinitely. We cannot even begin to imagine. Many times throughout this Gospel of John, Jesus speaks of his unity with his Father. Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30); “The Father is in me and I am in the Father” (John 10:38); “the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me” (14:24); “I am not alone for the Father is with me” (16:32). And there are many other statements by Jesus in John showing his unity with his Father.
Fr. John Kavanaugh, S.J.
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Hankering after the “Old Faith”
Give us rules. Give us magic. Give us threats. Give us mighty victories in war or splendid successes in the marketplace to insure our worthiness. Give us Communion counts, converts, and the approval of the nations to guarantee our righteousness. But the mystery of love?
One of Dorothy Day’s favorite passages from world literature occurs in Dostoevski’s The Brothers Karamazov, where the old Father Zossima points out to Madame Hohlokov that her supposed crisis of faith is really a crisis of love: “For love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. … But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps a complete science.”
No, love is not as easy as we may think. And its challenge to us is certainly nothing new.
Bishop Frank Schuster
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Faith is better than fame
A little rhetorical questionnaire: How many of you can tell me who were the last five academy award winners for best actress? How ’bout best actor? Here is an easier one. How many of you can tell me who the Pope was in the year 1200? How many of you can tell me who are the last five Nobel Peace Prize winners for achievements in medicine? All of these people are at the top of their fields, have made an impact on the world and have justly earned their accolades. How interesting it is though, that after the applause has died out, how few remember their names?
Let me ask some different questions. How many of you can name an influential teacher in your life? How many of you can name a friend who encouraged you at an important time? How many of you can name family members who love you? The people we love we remember forever. So does God. So does God. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against fame. It just that fame is fleeting. Faith, hope, and love lasts forever. Why?
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