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09, 2017
Padre Pio Sermon
This is a sermon on Padre Pio, suffering and love. (If you want to help spread these sermons, please click "Apple Podcasts" below and review this podcast on iTunes.)
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09, 2017
15th Sunday After Pentecost
The Mass and Salvation History, part 1. This two-part series is based on the stained glass around the high altar and sanctuary, here at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Jacksonville Florida. All of salvation history culminates in the single sacrifice of the Last Supper and Calvary, both found in the center panes. The featured landscape image is a stained glass from the nave. Pictures for reference to the podcast are on my blog. They are numbered 1 to 9, going west to east with a north-facing high altar (still liturgical ad orientem, of course.) Today is 1 to 4 on the West Side. Pentecost (Acts 2) 2) Melchizedek (Gen [...]
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09, 2017
14th Sunday After Pentecost
You'll hear a lot of reverberation in this sermon in an old Florida basilica (my new home) but you'll need to tweak your volume until I adjust the basilica microphones for future podcasts. In this sermon, you'll hear about the Gospel of the day applied to Hurricane Irma.
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09, 2017
Undivided Hearts: The Power of Celibacy
What does it mean to have an undivided heart for the Lord? "The unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit."—1 Cor 7:34 I gave this talk to homeschooling families that have taken literally God's command to "be fruitful and multiply" as the Old Testament says. But the New Testament generally holds it to be a calling to be fruitful and multiply for the salvation of more souls for Jesus Christ's kingdom. Therefore, this talk is about why to encourage your children to be very open to the calling of celibacy for the salvation of even more souls [...]
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08, 2017
Annulments Sermon
This sermon is about the beauty of marriage by way of the pain of annulments, and it is sure to be controversial. It might sound excessively traditional, but it is based on a key line that I forgot to quote from Pope John Paul II. He said that for a declaration of nullity to be granted, run-of-the-mill difficulties in marriage were not sufficient, but rather, "real incapacity is to be considered [for an annulment analysis] only when an anomaly of a serious nature is present"—Pope John Paul II's exhortation on Canon 1095, written on 25 February 1987. One example of "an anomaly of a serious nature" would be the couple's [...]
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08, 2017
11th Sunday After Pentecost
Extreme Unction: This sermon is about the last rites a priest will pray over you, as well as the last words that a dying Catholic is supposed to say. Photo credit Fr. Richard Heilman.
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08, 2017
Assumption Sermon
How to be holy like Mary (kind of.)
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08, 2017
Demonology Q and A
These are the questions and answers that I gave on the topic of exorcism and demonology. This talk was cut and paste into Q and A format by a friend who runs a radio show.
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08, 2017
Transfiguration Sermon
This sermon is about Mount Tabor and the Transfiguration by way of the Sermon on the Mount and the countercultural calling of the Maccabean martyrs.
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07, 2017
8th Sunday After Pentecost
Baptism Sermons, Part II of II: Sin and Grace.