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11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 13, 2021
Homily for June 13, 2021
Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34
If you were asked to name a site that holds a key to the survival of humanity and the world, a place more than 800 miles above the Arctic Circle...
Pentecost Sunday
May 23, 2021
Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23
In the annals of medicine, Miasma Theory held that diseases like cholera, malaria, the plague, and the flu came from “bad air” that emanated...
5th Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2021
Homily for May 2, 2021
Acts 9:26-31; 1 John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8
I will never be a farmer or vintner. I grew up in the city and have spent virtually my entire adult life living in large cities: Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit,...
3rd Sunday of Easter
April 18, 2021
Homily for April 18, 2021
Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; 1 John 2:1-5a; Luke 24:35-48
In one of his movie reviews, the late critic Roger Ebert wrote in 2004:
If ever there was a film with the correct title, that film is Mel...
Notes from a Journey - Capuchin Friar John Celichowski