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God Chose to Be With Us

Homily for Christmas Day – December 25, 2025Is. 62:11-12; Ps. 97; Titus 3;4-7; Luke 2:15-20 God Chose to Be With Us Brothers and sisters in Christ, Today the Church dares to proclaim something almost too wonderful to believe: God has chosen to come close. Not as thunder or fire, not as a conquering king, but as a

December 23, 2025
God Chose to Be With Us

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Do not be afraid to take Mary into your home

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Year A Isaiah 7:10-14; Psalm 24; Rom 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-24“Do not be afraid to take Mary into your home.” FRIENDS, we stand today at the very edge of Christmas. The waiting for Advent is almost complete, and the Church places before us a quiet, almost hidden figure: Saint Joseph.

December 17, 2025
Do not be afraid to take Mary into your home

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Joy That Finds Us

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; Psalm 146; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11: 2-11,“Joy That Finds Us”  Friends!On this Gaudete Sunday—Rejoice Sunday—the readings proclaim a truth our weary world often forgets: God’s joy does not wait for perfect circumstances; it breaks into the desert places of our lives. Isaiah speaks of

December 12, 2025
Joy That Finds Us

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Grace That Starts Before the Wound

December 8, 2025: Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, our MotherGenesis 3:9-15, 20; Psalm 98; Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12; Luke 1:26-38Grace That Starts Before the Wound Brothers and sisters, today the Church celebrates a miracle of prevenient grace—grace that arrives before the wound, light that dawns before the night is fully dark. In Mary’s Immaculate Conception,

December 4, 2025
Grace That Starts Before the Wound

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When God Grows in Our Ruins

Second Sunday of Advent, Year AIsaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72; Romans 15:4-9; Matthew 3:1-12When God Grows in Our Ruins  Friends, imagine a field of tree stumps after a forest has been cut down: silent, lifeless, finished. That is how Israel felt—cut down by exile, failure, and sin. Into that landscape Isaiah speaks: “A shoot shall sprout from

December 3, 2025
When God Grows in Our Ruins

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Wake Up to Hope!

First Sunday of Advent, Year AIsaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44Wake Up to Hope! Brothers and sisters in Christ, Today we begin a new liturgical year — a new spiritual journey. Advent is not simply a countdown to Christmas. Advent is not a soft, sentimental season; it begins with a jolt. “You know the time…

November 29, 2025
Wake Up to Hope!