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Led By the Spirit for Forty Days

What does our relationship with God look like right now? Are we closer to our family, friends, and loved ones than we are to God? Do we find more joy in the things of the world than in the love and freedom Jesus has given us? As we journey through Lent, let’s invite the Holy […]

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The Trinity

This coming Sunday is the feast of the Most Holy Trinity. I’m sure many priests don’t look forward to writing a homily about this topic, as the Trinity is very hard to wrap our minds around. The best thing to do is to invoke the Holy Spirit to help guide us to the truth about […]

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I Have Much More To Tell You, but You Cannot Bear It Now

We have so many questions that we wish we knew the answers to. It’s disappointing to know that we’ll probably never know the answers to many of our questions in this lifetime. Even though we may not know all the answers, Jesus left us with the Holy Spirit to guide us to the answers. The […]

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The Lord is With You

We are about to enter into the fourth Sunday of Advent and, this year, Christmas is right on it’s heels. The theme for the fourth Sunday of Advent is love and this theme is also applicable to Christmas. As John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so […]

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In a Little While the World Will No Longer See Me

In the movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly starts messing with the past and almost erases himself from existence. I like how the movie uses the image of Marty’s family gradually disappearing in the photo to show how they are being wiped out of existence. In a similar way, the image of Jesus is […]

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Full of the Spirit

The Holy Spirit is one of the most mysterious aspects of God. Many people have tried to explain who the Spirit is and although we can understand certain aspects of the Holy Spirit, it’s hard for us to fully comprehend this mystery, just as it is hard to fully explain the true nature of God. […]

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You Can’t Handle the Truth!

When I was a kid, I was always asking questions. How does this work? Why does that happen? Why doesn’t it work like this? Even though I have learned a lot through my life, I am still very curious about many things. Curiosity, if directed correctly, can be a beneficial thing. However, we need to […]