PREACHING

December 15, 2024

Third Sunday of Advent

Kate

Ward

Joy comes from resting in the presence of what is real: our God, our loved ones, the beauty of God’s creation.

Kate

Ward

Joy comes from resting in the presence of what is real: our God, our loved ones, the beauty of God’s creation.
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December 12, 2024

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Dermis

de Jesús

Her message of accompaniment- “Am I not here; I who am your mother?”- resonates with us today as it resonated with St. Juan Diego, and propels us to be courageous in how we respond to God’s calling, in how we spread God’s word and God’s love.

Dermis

de Jesús

Her message of accompaniment- “Am I not here; I who am your mother?”- resonates with us today as it resonated with St. Juan Diego, and propels us to be courageous in how we respond to God’s calling, in how we spread God’s word and God’s love.
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December 9, 2024

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Jazmin

Jimenez

On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, let us remind ourselves that authentic discernment requires freedom and space. Let us ponder how we can imitate the freedom with which Mary discerned a big question.

Jazmin

Jimenez

On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, let us remind ourselves that authentic discernment requires freedom and space. Let us ponder how we can imitate the freedom with which Mary discerned a big question.
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December 8, 2024

Second Sunday of Advent

Colleen

McCahill

What will we do, this Lukan Advent, to prepare a way in the desert?We will see and seek reasons to rejoice, and we will share them. We will keep kindling even the smallest, and most domestic lights. And in our time and our place, we will be true partners in the Gospel.

Colleen

McCahill

What will we do, this Lukan Advent, to prepare a way in the desert?We will see and seek reasons to rejoice, and we will share them. We will keep kindling even the smallest, and most domestic lights. And in our time and our place, we will be true partners in the Gospel.
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December 1, 2024

First Sunday of Advent

Valerie D.

Lewis-Mosley, RN, OPA

When we seek a life centered in abiding in God’s way, we are walking humbly with God. It is then that God guides the humble to justice and teaches us in the way of truth.

Valerie D.

Lewis-Mosley, RN, OPA

When we seek a life centered in abiding in God’s way, we are walking humbly with God. It is then that God guides the humble to justice and teaches us in the way of truth.
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November 24, 2024

Solemnity of Christ the King

Olivia Catherine

Hastie

To belong to the truth is to form genuine connections, where love, empathy, and understanding bring the Gospel message to life in a way that reaches others deeply and meaningfully.

Olivia Catherine

Hastie

To belong to the truth is to form genuine connections, where love, empathy, and understanding bring the Gospel message to life in a way that reaches others deeply and meaningfully.
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November 17, 2024

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Martha

Ligas

When we have hope, when we remember that– even in the trying times, especially in the trying times– the great Hope-Bearer is right here, knocking at the door of our hearts, we can sustain any season.

Martha

Ligas

When we have hope, when we remember that– even in the trying times, especially in the trying times– the great Hope-Bearer is right here, knocking at the door of our hearts, we can sustain any season.
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November 10, 2024

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jen

Frazer, OSB

I have enough experience in and among poor and otherwise marginal communities to know there is dignity and value to allowing even the humblest of us to make real and even sacrificial contributions.

Jen

Frazer, OSB

I have enough experience in and among poor and otherwise marginal communities to know there is dignity and value to allowing even the humblest of us to make real and even sacrificial contributions.
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November 3, 2024

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Eilis

McCulloh, HM

Before we can love our God with our whole being, we must practice active and holy listening. We must open ourselves to the movements of the Spirit–to the little fires of God around us.

Eilis

McCulloh, HM

Before we can love our God with our whole being, we must practice active and holy listening. We must open ourselves to the movements of the Spirit–to the little fires of God around us.
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November 1, 2024

Solemnity of All Saints

Christine

Firer Hinze

To live humbly, to share one another’s grief and pain, to be compassionate, to hunger and thirst for justice and work for peace, is to live in solidarity, to proclaim that “a different world is possible,” and to contribute to its birth.

Christine

Firer Hinze

To live humbly, to share one another’s grief and pain, to be compassionate, to hunger and thirst for justice and work for peace, is to live in solidarity, to proclaim that “a different world is possible,” and to contribute to its birth.
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October 28, 2024

Hidden Sister: "Daughter of Abraham"

Christine

Schenk, C.S.J.

We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.

Christine

Schenk, C.S.J.

We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.
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October 27, 2024

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Courtney

Esteves

I invite us to receive this “What do you want?” question in two ways: First, what do we want God to do for us? And secondly, let’s follow Jesus’s example by asking those around us, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Courtney

Esteves

I invite us to receive this “What do you want?” question in two ways: First, what do we want God to do for us? And secondly, let’s follow Jesus’s example by asking those around us, “What do you want me to do for you?”
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October 20, 2024

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Rebecca

Malone

Maybe what the apostles most need is not to be enthroned at Jesus’ right and left hand but to be sitting at his feet like Mary, soaking up his presence, resting in his radiance.

Rebecca

Malone

Maybe what the apostles most need is not to be enthroned at Jesus’ right and left hand but to be sitting at his feet like Mary, soaking up his presence, resting in his radiance.
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October 13, 2024

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Donna

Orsuto

Each of us is called to be generous with the gifts God has given us. The big question is: How are wecalled to do that? The answer is different for each of us. We have to discern, day by day, year by year, what this means for us.

Donna

Orsuto

Each of us is called to be generous with the gifts God has given us. The big question is: How are wecalled to do that? The answer is different for each of us. We have to discern, day by day, year by year, what this means for us.
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October 6, 2024

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mary M.

Doyle Roche

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.

Mary M.

Doyle Roche

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.
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