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Below, find recent homilies/sermons from Sunday Masses:
Gaining Perspective during Lent
Monsignor Michael Billian: We do this hard work during Lent so that we may encounter more fully the resurrected Jesus.
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Accepting God’s Free Gift of Love in Sin City
Father Philip Smith: When we take time to embrace the free gift of God’s love, we’re able to overcome any temptation we may experience in our lives.
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Ash Wednesday: Sinners with a Savior
Father Philip Smith: What we do here this evening is the exact opposite as we literally rub dirt on our foreheads, as we rub ashes on our foreheads as a symbol of the fact that we don’t have everything together, that we’re not perfect.
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Year of Mercy: Admonish the Sinner
Monsignor Michael Billian: The underlying current of faith throughout this fishing encounter with Simon Peter and the disciples is the call of each of us to go forth into the deep waters of life to find the catch of souls that wander about.
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Father Philip Smith: Amidst all the uncertainty and lack of clarity in our lives, there is a very clear path that each of us are being called by God to walk and that’s the path of true Christian love.
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Being a Child of God
Monsignor Michael Billian: Everything in our lives is built upon being a child of God, first and foremost. And because we have gained that title — Child of God — together it puts all of us in relationship with one another.
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Father Philip Smith: We’re invited to walk for water, to do what Jesus asks of us, to give it our all, to fill the jars to the brim, knowing that God’s going to do great things.
View SermonThe Celebration of the Lord’s Baptism
Monsignor Michael Billian: Humanity is being given divinity, the divinity of the one whose humanity received the Holy Spirit at his baptism. Jesus is being baptized for all God’s creation, for us. He carries on his body, all of us.
View SermonEpiphany: Reaching Our Spiritual Goals in the New Year
Father Philip Smith: The magi allowed the journey that they were on to change them, to influence them, to guide them to where they needed to go — to reach their spiritual goals.
View SermonChristmas: Mary and Joseph’s Crazy and Wild Journey
Father Philip Smith: It was a journey which nothing went the way they would have planned or desired. And yet, as we all know, the Christmas story is really a story of hope, joy and peace.
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