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Feb 2023
Fr Robert Deshaies homily for World Mission Sunday, the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, 02/19/2023–Food for the Poor The founder of Food for the Poor, living in Jamaica, was profoundly impacted when he heard God’s voice in a dream with the message from Matthew 25: “I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.......
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22
Dec 2022
As we prepare to welcome the first arrival of Christ, we also prepare for His Second Coming. As part of that preparation, we are called to be living icons of Christ....
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05
Dec 2022
These weeks of Advent, we need to prepare to welcome Christ in our lives. On Christmas, Christ is born anew in our hearts....
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25
Nov 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for Thanksgiving Day, 11/24/2022. (Readings: Deuteronomy 26: 1-11; Psalm 100; Philippians 4: 1-9; John 6: 25-35) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist–Thanksgiving Day, 11/24/2022 Link: Tithe.ly–Our Online Giving Resource Link: CEB Stewardship 2022 Link: Independent Movie Study 2022...
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31
Oct 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, 10/30/2022. In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells Zacchaeus, a Jewish tax collector, that “I must stay at your house today.” Jesus’s presence in the tax collector’s home totally reforms the tax collector. We need to invite Jesus into our homes. Imagine Jesus saying to us, “I must stay at your house today.” (Readings: Habakkuk 1: 1-4, 2: 1-4; Psalm 119: 137-144; 2 Thessalonians 1: 1-4, 11-12; Luke 19: 1-10) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist, 21st Sunday after Pentecost, 10/30/2022 Link: Tithe.ly–Our Online Giving Resource ......
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23
Oct 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, 10/23/2022. Jesus tells the parable about a Pharisee and a tax collector, The Pharisee was praising himself and the tax collector was asking God for forgiveness. We, too, need to ask God for forgiveness–no matter how much we may think we have done. Readings: Joel 2: 23-32; Psalm – 65; 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 16-18; Luke 18: 9-14) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist–20th Sunday after Pentecost Link: Tithe.ly–Our Online Giving Resource Link: CEB Stewardship 2022 Link: Independent Movie Study 2022 ...
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17
Oct 2022
How much more responsive than an unjust judge will God be to the persistent pleas of His people?...
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10
Oct 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 10/09/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL. In today’s Gospel (Luke 17), Christ heals a Samaritan leper. The Samaritan returns to Jesus to thank Him and to praise Him. Jesus tells him that his faith has made him well. This Samaritan leper was open to Jesus’s love, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and grace. As baptized Christians, we, too, are called to be open to Christ’s love, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and grace and to share it with those around us. (Readings: Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7;......
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02
Oct 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, 10/02/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL, Jesus’s Disciples wanted to learn how to deepen their faith. Jesus told them that they had faith enough to do the work He had called them to do. We, too, as baptized Christians, have enough faith to do the work Christ has called us to do. We need to do the work and Christ and the Holy Spirit and Faith will sustain us in doing that work. (Readings: Lamentations 1: 1-6; Psalms 137; 2 Timothy 1:......
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