Back in 2006/2007 I built a cedar strip canoe while at the seminary. It's a project I'm fairly proud of. Lot's of people ask, "How do you build a canoe?" It's not an easy process to describe, but a picture can say a thousand words, so if you're interested, head on over and check it out. You'll find the button up top.
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Homily for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Are you using your talents (no, I don't mean your skills and abilities, but the more important gifts God has given you - your faith, hope and love)?
Homily for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Don't be like the Pharisees and focus just on the letter of the law. Focus rather on the spirit of the law, and follow the commandments to show God you love Him with all your heart, your mind and your soul, and that you truly love your neighbour as yourself.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Paragraph 2181: The Sunday Eucharist is the foundation and confirmation of all Christian practice. For this reason the faithful are obliged to participate in the Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor. Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.
Paragraph 2182: Participation in the communal celebration of the Sunday Eucharist is a testimony of belonging and of being faithful to Christ and to his Church. The faithful give witness by this to their communion in faith and charity. Together they testify to God’s holiness and their hope of salvation. They strengthen one another under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Homily for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Help our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria
Help our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria. Click here for some ways to give.
Homily for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A few weeks late, sorry.
Homily for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fraternal correction. Optional? Not so much. Just make sure you do it the right way. (Consider yourself fraternally corrected).
Homily for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
How would you have reacted to Jesus telling you that "It's not right to take what belongs to the children and throw it to the dogs?"
Special credit to Fr. Robert Barron for some of the ideas in this homily. Go listen to his much better insights on this Gospel passage by clicking here.
Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Homily for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Are you wheat, or weed, or a bit of both?
Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
What kind of soil are you? What do you have to do to become good soil and grow deep roots?
Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Homily for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity
Homily for the Solemnity of Pentecost
The Father sent Jesus to reconcile the world to Himself. He gave us the Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of sins and instituted the sacrament of confession for us to receive that forgiveness.
Click here for some stuff on how to go to confession.
Homily for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord
Go and make disciples of all nations!
"It would be useful if every Christian and every evangelizer were to pray about the following thought: men can gain salvation also in other ways, by God's mercy, even though we do not preach the Gospel to them; but as for us, can we gain salvation if through negligence or fear or shame- what St. Paul called "blushing for the Gospel" - or as a result of false ideas we fail to preach it?" from Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi
Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter
Read the Bible, even if it's just a few minutes a day.