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W Pat Cunningham
Contributing sermons since Aug 5, 2008
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Homecoming To The Temple
Contributed on Jan 30, 2025
Joseph and Mary brought their newborn Jesus into the Temple for a solemn ceremony.
Homecoming Today’s feast is a commemoration of the wonderful moment when Jesus, the Messiah and Son of God, comes home to the Temple at Jerusalem. Homecoming is a wonderful moment in life. I recall decades ago, flying into our South Texas airport after a one-week training session, and my whole ...read more
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We Know Not How But We Work Hard Anyway
Contributed on Jan 28, 2025
Jesus is describing the Kingdom of God, which on earth is the Church He deputized to continue His mission to the world.
Friday of the Third Week in Course 2025 Mark’s Gospel today gives us a little story that is found in no other place in the NT. Like so many of the Jesus stories, it is about agriculture. Jesus is describing the Kingdom of God, which on earth is the Church He deputized to continue His mission to ...read more
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Why Did Jesus Have To Return To Heaven?
Contributed on Jan 28, 2025
Couldn’t Jesus have stayed on earth and God would have done all that?
Ascension Thoughts 2025 Why did Jesus ascend into heaven? Wouldn’t it be better if He remained here on earth. And, besides, Matthew records that He said “Behold, I am with you always, even until the end of days.” We know that when the Church celebrates the Ascension, forty days after Easter, we ...read more
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Treating The "unpresentable" With Special Care
Contributed on Jan 23, 2025
Losing that witness leaves a community injured, even emotionally and socially bankrupt.
Third Sunday in Course 2025 Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people come into our lives over the seventy or eighty years of an average American lifetime. If we look at St. Paul’s words written almost two thousand years ago, describing an early Christian assembly, we can see images of people we have ...read more
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When Righteousness And Peace Embrace
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
We've all seen stories of people who think they are on God's side, identify evildoers, and confront them with force. But in God's kingdom, initiated in Jesus Christ, things are otherwise.
Friday of the Second Week in Course 2025 The Church has no definitive teaching on who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, but we know that the Holy Spirit inspired the author, and he or she was very familiar with the liturgy of the Jewish Temple, especially the annual Day of Atonement, when the High ...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