Homilies from December, 2019

Feast of the Holy Family

December 28, 2019
Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14; Colossians 3:12-21; Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 If you had to pick two or three words to describe your family, what would they be? Big, small, funny, serious, loud, quiet, loving, united, divided,...

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Christmas

December 25, 2019
I was recently jogging in my neighborhood when I noticed a yard filled with Christmas decorations: Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…and toward the back, in the midst a forest of lights...

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Fourth Sunday of Advent

December 21, 2019
Isaiah 7:10-14; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-24 December has been a long month at St. Clare of Montefalco. We began the Season of Advent on December 1. Then we had the Novena and Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Three...

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Third Sunday of Advent

December 14, 2019
Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 Like many priests, I hear my share of confessions. One of the sins that I hear more and more people confessing these days is anger, and that anger is often an expression of...

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