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Today is the first Sunday in May. May starts a glorious season for me. In May, I was freed from slavery and was adopted as a son of God. In May, I was first forgiven on May 5th. On May 6th I received First Holy Communion. May 9th was my Baptismal day. May 12th was my Priestly Ordination day. May 20th my Ordination to the Deaconate. And May 24th was my Confirmation. It is truly the best month for m...
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When I was in Kamloops, I used to visit a particular widow. She had a son who was a healthy, vibrant, youngish man but he never seemed to work. One day I asked him what he did. He said that he was retired from being a deep sea diver. He said he started as a young man and worked his way up and made a lot of money until one day he had an experience that sent him to retirement. He said that he and hi...
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This day in the Church is traditionally known as, “Good Shepherd Sunday.” On this Sunday, we often focus on vocations. A vocation is where God is calling you. There is a universal vocation that is for everyone and it is our call to holiness, to be set aside for God. Then there are the common vocations of Priesthood, Marriage and Religious Life. These are the ways that we can be like the Good Sheph...
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Over the last two weeks, we have been on a journey of learning how the Lord prepared His disciples after the Resurrection, how He showed up in and out of their lives and opened their minds to Scripture and today’s Gospel clearly affirms that. I mentioned that in order for us to live the Resurrection and be a disciple, we must meet the Resurrected Jesus Himself and that the principle way of meeting...
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This Sunday is the Feast of Divine Mercy where our Lord invites us to share in bringing His Mercy into our lives and into the lives of those around us. The feast and the devotion to Divine Mercy are relatively new but very necessary for our times. It is important for all of us to know of this amazing devotion. Most of us have a cellphone, we are keeping up to the technology of the world. Cellphone...
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In all honesty, I was not looking forward to Easter this year, I really liked Lent. I loved the time of preparation and I truly felt it should have gone for longer. At the Easter Vigil, we have a beautiful ceremony of the light and I loved the dark mystery of it all. I wish the darkness would stay longer. Then we say “Christ our Light” three times and the lights were on, Easter was here and our we...
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What is good about Good Friday? As I mentioned yesterday, it is that Jesus first celebrated the Passover and then He was the Passover. The first Passover was when Israel was enslaved and then after the meal they were set free and they went on to the Promised Land. Today in the reading, you heard Jesus drink the final cup of the Passover on the cross and say, “It is finished.” What is finished? The...
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Today we witness something amazing. Jesus, a faithful Jew, celebrating the Passover on the wrong day. How did he miss that fact? The Passover is not celebrated on Thursday, it is celebrated on Friday night. So what happened? Let us explain this mystery. First how Jesus could have been so confused and we will actually find out the amazing, awe-inspiring, perfect timing of God, rather than error on ...
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This Sunday, I want to talk to you or teach you something that I have found to be incredibly important. Last Sunday, I told you that I did not know how to make you disciples, that I couldn’t make you disciples but Jesus could. I also asked you to bring a journal, something to write down God’s word to you. Hopefully the ushers have handed you something to write on. So, how do you become a discip...
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A man in today’s Gospel said to Philip that he wanted to see Jesus. What would you say to a person who made this request of you? Today we conclude our five weeks of homilies on Discipleship. You could say we have been on a five-week cruise on the “Disciple Ship.” To refresh your minds of the points of this journey, we started off by discovering that we the baptized and are called to a mission, ...
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