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From Sinner to Saint
Monsignor Michael Billian: We‘re third. God first, others second. A good priority for us to think about as we cross the bridge from sinner to saint.
View SermonThe Kindergarten Class of Jesus
Monsignor Michael Billian: Jesus picked 12 to start with and they were very different. Our Lord took them and molded them into disciples. He taught them to bury their differences and work together.
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Palm Sunday: Being a Pilgrim, not a Tourist
Monsignor Michael Billian: Pilgrims don’t stand on the outside and watch what’s going on. Pilgrims get involved in what’s going on. Pilgrims engage the people that they are walking through life with.
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Truly Transforming our Lives this Lent
Monsignor Michael Billian: Even when you and I, like the son in the story, wander off, the Lord keeps his eye on us, waiting for us again to exercise our free will and to come back to him.
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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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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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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.
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 SermonWe’re called to be a real ambassador for mercy
Monsignor Michael Billian: We’re called to be modern day John the Baptizers in the world in which we live — in the midst of the people that we see every day — to be a real ambassador for mercy.
View SermonImmaculate Conception: The Yes of Mary
Monsignor Michael Billian: Now Mary said yes to the Lord without even knowing exactly what she was saying yes to. She wasn’t sure about what was going to happen.
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