Tag: faith
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Palm Sunday Year A (2026)
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) Today marks the beginning of Holy Week. The most holy week of the year where we enter into Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. We do this every time we come to Mass, but most intensely this week and at the end of the week with the…
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4th Sunday of Lent Year A (2026) *Youth
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday Youth Mass at OLP) I remember the feeling when I was younger of not being chosen. My 6th grade class was going to Ameritown, and I ran for mayor. But, I lost. And this hurt. Now, if I had better self-esteem, I could’ve…
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Epiphany (2026) Part 2
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) Jesus is the light to all nations. He is the Light of the World. Even more so, as Truth himself, Jesus is the light to our minds. During my high school years, as I grew in my relationship with Jesus,…
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Christmas 2025
(Given at the 4 pm Christmas Eve Mass in the PLC, the midnight Mass in the PLC, and the 8:30 am Christmas Day Mass at OLP) Why does Matthew spend so much time on the genealogy of Jesus? It can be tempting to skip over it or skim through it,…
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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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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,…