Sermons in “Lent”

Fear of Loneliness
Father Philip Smith: In order experience true friendship, deep, intimate community with other people, oftentimes we first have to go through periods or seasons of loneliness in our own lives.
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Jesus and Gandhi
Deacon Justin Moor: Becoming a better Catholic and living what we believe is also about that person like Gandhi that we encounter who is waiting on us to live what we believe before they also come to believe in Jesus.
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Four Lessons of Anger
Father Philip Smith: Jesus shows us today that he wants to enter into that anger with us. He takes on our anger and he redeems it, he transforms it into a power to do good.
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Accepting God’s Timing
Father Jeremy Miller: We’re called to accept God’s purposes and timing. His timing is always better than ours, even though we get impatient.
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Renewing the Covenant with God
Monsignor Michael Billian: This Lent, you and I are called to renew the covenant, to renew the relationship we have with God – not just the deal, not just the word, the life-giving relationship that we share with one another.
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Ash Wednesday: Jesus does not give busywork
Father Jeremy Miller: As we embark upon this season of Lent, let’s not see these next 40 days as busywork. But rather let’s see them as precisely what they are, which are Jesus’ remedy, Jesus’ medication if you will, and our surest path to reaching our full potential as sons and daughters of God.
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A Truly Good Friday
Monsignor Michael Billian: Good Friday is good. It is a day of solemn remembrance, not a day of mourning and sadness.
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Holy Thursday: Eating at the Big Table
Monsignor Michael Billian: The Lord invites all of us to come to the Big Table, to listen to the stories that belong to our faith family, to share in the one bread and the one cup, to enjoy the strength that we receive by being together around the Big Table.
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Palm Sunday: Making Time for Jesus
Father Philip Smith: The great thing that will happen if we make time for Jesus this week, and really every day, is that we will see what Jesus has done for us.
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Coming out of our Tombs
Monsignor Michael Billian: What are those self-inflicted places of isolation? What are our tombs?
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