Liturgical Seasons and Celebrations

Regarding Feast Days and Liturgical Seasons

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TEMPTATION? BRING IT ON

The Spiritual Strain of Lenten Spiritual Exercses
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Homily – 1st Sunday of Lent (Year C)
Luke 4:1-13 – The Temptation of Jesus in the Desert

What is the point of Spiritual Exercise without the Strain of Temptation?

Fr. Bill preaches about the Individual and Communal Observances of Lent and how they fit into the experience Jesus had in the Temptation in the Desert.

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“BIG-PLANK” CATHOLICISM

Sunday Homily
8th Sunday of the Year – C

Luke 6:39-45

Remove the Plank, then Remove the Speck — Luke 6:39-45

Fr. Bill talks about how we remove one another’s specks in small and very big ways.

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DO ONLY SINNERS FEAR COVID?

Sunday Homily
7th Sunday of the Year
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Luke 6:27-38

Followers of Christ do not do what sinners do, or tax collectors, or pagans, or popular opinion, or “the majority of people.”

Fr. Bill reflects on the Catholic response to the Pandemic and how Catholics can redeem themselves in how they move on from its immanent end.

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SCHOOL BOARDS, ABORTION and the HOLY INNOCENTS

Podcast for the Feast of the Holy Innocents

The Feast of the Holy Innocents follows the Celebration of Christmas and remembers the death of the infants slaughtered by King Herod following the Birth of Jesus.

Fr. Bill talks about how the Slaughter of the Innocents parallels another Biblical slaughter, and how it is repeated today in the drive for a more secular progressive post-Christian society.

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CHRISTMAS – The Unstoppable Celebration of Freedom!

Christmas Podcast – 2021

Christmas celebrates the Birth of Christ, but it also celebrates that “The Lord has come this people and set them free!”  It is a great celebration of Freedom that is perfectly combatable with our culture and founding as Free Americans of the United States.

Fr. Bill talks about how this is so and wishes everyone the best of the season.

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BRINGING IN THE NEW YEAR – Advent 2022

Homily for the First Sunday of Advent (C) of the Liturgical Year, 2022

The First Sunday of Advent brings in the New Year for the Catholic Church. Fr. Bill discusses ways in which Catholics can observe annually this head start the Church has on the rest of the world in bringing in the year from the point of faith.

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What Makes a “Funeral”

Part 2 of Series
“DEATH & THE FUNERAL”

When a person dies, friends and loved ones like to conduct “tributes”, “memorials” or “celebrations of life”.

Catholics celebrate a Funeral.

Fr. Bill talks about the qualities that make a Funeral, the progression of the celebration, the symbols that are used, and how a Funeral is very different from simply a “celebration of life.”

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DO PETS GO TO HEAVEN?

Homily for Corpus Christi Sunday

What does the Holy Eucharist, Ancient Paganism and our Desire to see our beloved Pets in Heaven all have in common?

Fr. Bill explains in his homily for the Celebration of Corpus Christi Sunday.