Sermons on “Community”
Epiphany: Welcoming All Peoples
Monsignor Michael Billian: Christ came for all nations, for all peoples. And if we are ambassadors for Christ in the world, then we too need to be prepared to welcome all peoples as well.
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Advent: Changing our Settings
Monsignor Michael Billian: Advent is an opportunity to change our personal settings in life.
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Don’t Snooze Through Advent
Father Philip Smith: Advent is a time to stop hitting the snooze button on the changes we need to make to allow God to help us to become better people in a closer community together.
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Year of Mercy: Counsel the Doubtful
Father Philip Smith: It might be our loving presence that might make the difference for them, the place that God’s mercy will work to show them the path they must follow.
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Connecting Old and Young
Father Philip Smith: Today we give thanks to the faith-filled example of people who have persevered in their faith. We can look up to them.
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Father Philip Smith: The word of God today challenges us to live differently, not to be self-centered but to give ourselves to help those who are suffering around us.
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Advanced Seating at the Eternal Banquet
Monsignor Michael Billian: The Kingdom of God has no room for our fuss. It runs on a different seating plan. At this banquet, the tables have been turned. Seating is on a last come, first serve basis.
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Father Philip Smith: Jesus invites all people to be saved. The real question to ask is whether we’re will to accept that love, whether we’re willing to accept salvation and a relationship with God.
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Father Philip Smith: People are still watching us in the way we live our lives and God can use this example — this witness — to touch other people’s hearts and help them experience God’s presence in their midst.
View SermonWrapping our Persistence in Charity
Monsignor Michael Billian: We have permission from God to do just that. He told us today: Seek, Ask, Knock. He didn’t say to avoid those things, he told us directly that’s what we have to do. But I think it’s important though to wrap our persistence in charity. Then it is received to the heart from the heart.
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