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We Participate in the Miracle
August 3rd, 2024
July 28, 2024Each of the Gospels include the story of the multiplication of loaves and fishes. Each includes some details that are not in the others. My favorite telling of the story is the Gospel tha... Read More
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Who Was Mary Magdalene?
July 27th, 2024
July 21, 2024This Monday, July 22, we celebrate the feat of Mary Magdalene. There are very few saints whose reputation has been more unjustly sullied by the Church itself, than Mary Magdalene. How did... Read More
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Bishop Iffert Launches Campaign of Mercy
July 20th, 2024
July 14, 2024A few weeks ago, Bishop Iffert launched a Campaign for Mercy in the Diocese of Covington. This campaign is based on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy and encourages all parishes a... Read More
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The Thorn in the Flesh
July 13th, 2024
July 7, 2024Our second reading for today is taken from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. Paul has talked about a man (it was actually Paul himself) who was “taken up to the seventh heaven” ... Read More
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Happy Independence Day
July 5th, 2024
June 30, 2024On Thursday we will celebrate the Fourth of July, Independence Day. It has always intrigued me that we celebrate our nation’s independence, not on the day that we won the Revolutionary Wa... Read More
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Do You Not Yet Have Faith?
June 29th, 2024
June 23, 2024In this week’s Gospel we see the Apostles and Jesus in a boat crossing the Sea of Galilee. Jesus is sleeping, as a squall blew up, and the waves were threatening to sink the boat. Panicki... Read More
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Happy Father's Day
June 21st, 2024
June 16, 2024Many years ago, I heard a comedian talking about how kids relate differently to fathers and mothers. He spoke about a boy who played football throughout his school years. His dad took him... Read More
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Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
June 14th, 2024
June 9, 2024The first three chapters of the Book of Genesis tell the story of the creation of the world and the calamitous fall of man. Adam and Eve listened to the lies of the serpent (Satan), and ... Read More
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The Most Sacred of All Beliefs
June 8th, 2024
June 2, 2024The most sacred of all the beliefs of Catholics is that which we celebrate this Sunday—the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. We are in a year of Eucharistic Renewal, called by the Americ... Read More
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The Mystery of the Holy Trinity
June 5th, 2024
May 26, 2024At the heart of Catholicism are two of the most important doctrines of the Church, that define us as Church. There is the Feast that we celebrate today, that of the Most Holy Trinity, and ... Read More
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Can We Rise to the Challenge?
May 29th, 2024
May 12, 2024Forty days after His Resurrection from the dead, on Easter Sunday, Jesus gathered with His disciples and ascended to the right hand of the Father. Before ascending, He gave them their Grea... Read More
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I Will Call You My Friends
May 11th, 2024
May 5, 2024Many years ago, when I first went to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, the staff began planning for Bishop Foys to come to officially install me as pastor. They told me that I needed to have... Read More