Tag: salvation
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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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3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A) 2026
(Given at the 8:30 am and 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) (The you/they difference is due to the fact that the OCIA class was at the 10:30 am Mass and not the 8:30 am Mass) Today, we (will) celebrate the scrutinies with our former catechumens, now dubbed the Elect. …
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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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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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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,…