Category: Sunday Masses
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) We need to stop comparing ourselves to others. According to Father Samuel Keyes, this is what Jesus is saying in our gospel passage this evening. The Pharisee prays this way explicitly, but maybe when we heard the passage, we thought,…
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 am and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) Some might look at Moses’ lifting up his hands in our first reading as superstitious. When he dropped his hands, the Israelites were losing; when he kept them up, the Israelites were winning. They didn’t think it…
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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2025
(Given at the 4:30 pm Saturday Mass and the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass) (Reader Discretion Advised) Imagine walking into a building of a brand new religion. You enter the doors, walk up the aisle, and see at the forefront of the back wall an image of a man hanging…
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) I love our second reading from St. Paul this morning. He starts by asking his listeners to pray for everyone, and especially those in authority. Today, this includes politicians we may not agree with, even priests we may…
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 am and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) Mustard seeds are small. I have one in a vial, and man it’s tiny. Like a grain of sand. And yet, from this small seed comes a robust and hefty bush. The Lord’s analogy of the mustard…
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) There were times in high school where it was difficult to explain my faith to my friends. Maybe some of you, especially our young people here, can relate. And there were areas where it’s like, if only I knew then,…