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Stay Awake Friday, August 31, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 36: 1-13

Wake Up Thursday, August 30, 2018 Scripture: 24: 42-51

Hard Choices Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Scripture: Mark 6: 17-29

Scribes and Pharisees - Day Two Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 23: 23-26

Scribes and Pharisees Monday, August 27, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 23: 13-22

Where Can We Go? 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture. John 6: 60-69

The Paulist Fathers Bookstore - San Francisco

Come and See Friday, August 24, 2018 Scripture: Rev. 21:9b-14. John 1: 45-51

Heart of Stone - Heart of Flesh Thursday, August 23, 2018 Scripture: Ezekiel 36: 23-28. Matthew 22: 1-14

It Is Not About Sex

Too Much Stuff Monday, August 20, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 19: 16-22

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/michaelcsp/episodes/2018-08-19T19_27_45-07_00

Bishops, REPENT

This was written by my very best friend and he captures my outrage and anger perfectly: Our bishops have asked everyone to do penance. That is the ecclesiastical equivalent of Thoughts and Prayers. No I will not do penance for you. You committed the crimes. You do the penance. YOU discriminate against women. You are so vocal on abortion that the woman who has had one and needs healing would look at the church as the last place to go. YOU tell half the earth's population they can't be priests because they don't image Christ. YOU fuel violence against Queer peopl e with your homophobia. You try to deny us the right to love. How Christian of you! YOU are homophobes. And most homophobes are homos at heart. You scream loudly from inside your closets so that no one will suspect you. I don't know. Most straight men would not be caught dead with a 20 foot scarlet cape. On the other hand many gay men would consider it supreme drag. YOU helped elect the worst pres...

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture: Proverbs 9: 1-6, Eph 5: 15-20, John 6: 51-58

I'm Not Going Anywhere: Friday and Saturday, August 17-18, 2018

Words and Actions Thursday, August 15, 2018 Scripture: Ezekiel 12: 1-12, Matthew 18: 21- 18:1

The Feast of the Assumption August 15, 2018 Scripture: Revelation 11: 19a, 12: 1-6am 10ab, 1 Cor 15: 20-27, Lk 1: 39-56

Eating God's Word:Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Scripture: Ezekiel 2: 8 — 3:4 Matthew 18: 1-5, 10, 12-14

Not a Definition Monday, August 13, 2018 Scripture: Ezekiel 1: 2-5, 24-28

Homily for 19th Week in Ordinary Time

Do you find, at times, that you are irritable, restless or discontent?  I do.   When I feel this way I discover that there is a sort of hole in my soul.  It can be a very tiny hole, or a huge hole that seems to want to devour me.  I run into a number of people each week that have holes of various sizes in their souls. These holes want, even need, to be fed.  One of our former pastors here at St. Mary’s was with me as pastor at the Paulist University Parish in Morgantown West Virginia.  He’d come up to me and say, “Michael — I’m depressed."  I’d ask him, "Is this depression leading us to Dairy Queen — or do we need to buy a new car?”  I have bought a lot a fattening junk food and useless items trying to fill the various size holes in my life — and I like to think I am not alone.  Buying stuff gives us the illusion of being in control even if we are wasting our money in the process; and as most of us know, in a few minutes or days we feel e...

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture: 1 Kings 19: 4-8, Eph 4: 30-5:2, John 6: 41-51

Feast of St. Lawrence Friday, August 10, 2018 Scripture: John 12: 24-26

The Cost of Belief:Thursday, August 9, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 16: 13-23

Great Faith Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Scripture: Matthew 15: 21-28

Little Things Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Scripture: 14: 22-36

Homily for the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Last week Jesus fed well over 5,000 people including women and children.  The people wanted to haul Him off and make Him a king; and why not - He’d be a very useful king to have, especially on a journey.  When traveling we like things just so, useful things, useful people I love road trips, I mean really long one like up into British Columbia, Yukon Territory — Alaska.  Thankfully I don’t have any kids because, as I understand it, the cry goes out a couple of hours into a trip “Are we there yet?”  What seemed like a good idea at the time becomes something else altogether.  At airports, it can happen even before you board the plane. We get disgruntled when things or persons become useless.  We’ve all had the experience of being asked to sign our name to some document and our pen won’t work.  Drats.  If something as insignificant as a pen can upset us, what about the larger issues?  Larger issues like not being able to connect with wifi....

The Transfiguration Monday, August 6, 2018 Scripture: 9: 2-10

Disgruntled 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture: Exodus 16: 2-4, 12-15, John 6: 35-35

Unacceptable Friday, August 3, 2018 Scripture: Jeremiah 26: 1-9, Matthew 13: 54-59

Like Clay in the Hand of a Potter Thursday, August 2, 2018 Scripture: Jeremiah 18: 1-6, Matthew 13: 47-53