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2009 Homilies
Readings Cycle B | 2007 Homilies | 2008 Homilies

Date Homilist Feast Content
June 28 Fr. Lawrence 13th Ordinary Jesus engages in His healing ministry. Healing???
June 21 Fr. Lawrence 12th Ordinary Mark revisited - Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm.  "God will not go away."
June 14 Fr. Lawrence Corpus Christi This is my blood, the new covenant which shall be shed for many..
June 7 Fr. Lawrence Trinity Sunday God created humans in His own image.  What we can learn of God, we learn by knowing ourselves.
May 31 Graduating High School seniors Pentecost Reflections - at post-communion time graduating seniors reflect on their life at St. Vincent's.
May 31 Fr. Lawrence Pentecost The homilist addresses the high school graduates who are celebrating at this service.  Christ commissioned us to use our talents in the service of God.
May 24 Fr. Lawrence 7th Easter The add-ons to the Gospel of Mark.
May 17 Fr. Kennedy 6th Easter "Love one another as I have loved you...."
May 10 Fr. Jay O'Connor 5th Easter "Paul, what are you doing?"
May 3 Fr. Lawrence 4th Easter
First Communion
Good Shepard Sunday.  The homilist addresses the first communicants about their role as sheep and shepards.
April 26 Fr. Lawrence 3rd Easter Jesus appears to the disciples on the way to Emmaus.  "...having accomplished all according to the scripture..."
April 19 Fr. Lawrence 2nd Easter The Resurrection story according to John.  "I am going to my God AND your God..."
April 12 Fr. Lawrence Easter Sunday "He is risen"  And we will rise as well....
April 5 Fr. Lawrence Palm Sunday The passion according to Mark.  The homilist explicates three specifically Markian passages in the narrative.
March 29 Fr. Lawrence 5th Lent The covenant - Noah, Abraham, Moses, now us thru Jesus...
Mar 22 Fr. Lawrence 4th Lent Unless we be with-lifted up with Jesus, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mar 15 Fr. Lawrence 3rd Lent Jesus cleans the temple of those who would make it a marketplace. "He did not need anyone to testify about human nature.  He himself understood it well."
Mar 8 Fr. Lawrence 2nd Lent The Transfiguration.  Jesus is transformed like Isaac in the first reading - in the glory that will he His after the resurrection.
Mar 1 Fr. Lawrence 1st Lent The temptations of Jesus in the desert according to Mark.  So what is (are) the temptation(s)?
Feb 22 Fr. Lawrence 7th Ordinary Jesus cures the man lowered down through the roof.  And gives us an example of how to help the paralyzed.
Feb 15 Fr. Lawrence 6th Ordinary Jesus cures the Leper. And gives us a complicated example - respect the law and blow it away when necessary.
Feb 8 Fr. Lawrence 5th Ordinary Peter's mother-in-law was healed - and the "got up to serve" them.  A bookend to Jesus' "I cam to serve, not to be served..."
Feb 1 Fr. Lawrence 4th Ordinary Through works and words, Jesus reveals who He is and who God is.  He begins teaching in the synagogue differently - with authority rather than with footnotes.
Jan 25 Fr. Lawrence 3rd Ordinary We begin the reading of the Gospel of Mark in earnest today, from the beginning.  Mark, like each of the gospel writers, has his own flavor.  Savor it.
Jan 18 Fr. Lawrence 2nd Ordinary Samuel is called. The Apostles are called. We are called.  None are given a roadmap.
Jan 11 Fr. Lawrence Baptism of Jesus This feast ends a season (Christmas) and begins another (Ordinary time).  It begins Jesus' ministry to heal, reveal, inspire, and amaze.
Jan 4 Fr. Lawrence Epiphany Christ, the light as represented by the star of Bethlehem, has broken through to all people, including us gentiles.

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