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W Pat Cunningham
Contributing sermons since Aug 5, 2008
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The Great Trades
Contributed on Mar 1, 2025
God, the Most High, has given us everything we own, so generosity in His service is only just.
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Course 2025 The wisdom book we have in Greek called Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus (since the early churches used it so often) reads like the book of Proverbs. Today’s proverbs regard offerings to God. Our sacrifices to God, in the spirit of the second-Temple Jews, should ...read more
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Actively Repent And Avoid Presumption
Contributed on Mar 1, 2025
We can stand under Gis mystery, His greatness, His uniqueness, and admire or adore Him. That’s the extent of our “understanding,” to stand beneath his Being.
Monday of the Eighth Week in Course 2025 This is one of those liturgical weeks that gets started in one direction and then heads off in another mid-week. Of course, I’m talking about Wednesday as the turn-around day, Ash Wednesday, which begins the universally recognized time of Lent. So we should ...read more
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Specks, Logs And Improving Our Vision
Contributed on Feb 26, 2025
We all know that the Internet has given us lots of opportunities to be tempted to sin, hasn’t it? Is the temptation itself sinful?
Eighth Sunday in Course 2025 Some people don’t have the deuterocanonical book of Sirach in their Bibles, so I’ll read some of the first reading. Sirach was written in Hebrew, but over the years those versions were mostly lost, but survive in Greek. The book is mostly a compilation of proverbs, ...read more
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Hardness Of Heart Or True Friendship
Contributed on Feb 24, 2025
Tested friends are the most valuable ones, sturdy shelters against future adversity.
Friday of the Seventh Week in Course 2025 Jeshua ben Sira was an Alexandrian Jew who spoke both Hebrew and Greek. About two hundred years before Jesus Christ his family gave us a compilation of his writings, which we call the Book of Sirach. It was used so often in the early Church that it ...read more
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No Mediocrity Allowed Here
Contributed on Feb 19, 2025
Did the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Lord and God and Creator of the Universe, put aside His transcendent glory and empty Himself, coming down all the way to assume our weak human nature so that we could “get by”?
Seventh Sunday in Course 2025 Unless you have a pretty strong grounding in what we used to call “Bible History,” today’s first reading could leave you a little blindsided, that is until you heard the Gospel. King Saul, first king of the Israelite kingdom, had taken three thousand of his best ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Lent 2024
Contributed on Jan 26, 2024
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Lent 2023
Contributed on Feb 21, 2023
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Pre-Christmas Novena
Contributed on Dec 12, 2022
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Way Of The Cross
Contributed on Jan 11, 2022
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Hope Of Salvation
Contributed on Apr 12, 2021
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Coronavirus And Our Need For The Transcendent
Contributed on Mar 21, 2020
Children, as Jesus said, Don't be afraid. Your family is probably founded on some kind of faith. Listen to your parents and other adults whom you trust, and know that nearly everyone is working hard to get us through this trouble. ? In fifty years you will remember this crisis as one of the ...read more
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Now A Man Can Scarcely Arrive At The Needed ...
Contributed on Jun 8, 2013
"Now a man can scarcely arrive at the needed sense of responsibility, unless his living conditions allow him to become conscious of his dignity, and to rise to his destiny by spending himself for God and for others. But human freedom is often crippled when a man encounters extreme poverty just as ...read more
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Error Vs. Person In Error
Contributed on Apr 26, 2013
ERROR VS. PERSON IN ERROR This love and good will, to be sure, must in no way render us indifferent to truth and goodness. Indeed love itself impels the disciples of Christ to speak the saving truth to all men. But it is necessary to distinguish between error, which always merits repudiation, ...read more
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That Means, As Dominic Savio Once Said, ...
Contributed on Mar 16, 2013
That means, as Dominic Savio once said, preferring death to ...read more
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Only In Freedom Can Goodness Occur
Contributed on Mar 16, 2013
Only in freedom can man direct himself toward goodness. Our contemporaries make much of this freedom and pursue it eagerly; and rightly to be sure. Often however they foster it perversely as a license for doing whatever pleases them, even if it is evil. For its part, authentic freedom is an ...read more