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22
Feb 2023
2023-02-19-Food for the Poor

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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25
Nov 2022
Dear God, Thank You for Everything

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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20
Nov 2022
Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise

Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 24th (Last) Sunday after Pentecost, 11/20/2022 (Christ the King Sunday)–Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, is crucified between two thieves. One of the thieves believes in Jesus Christ and asks him to remember him when he gets to Paradise.  Jesus tells him, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Through our baptism, we, too, join Jesus in Paradise.  We need to remember that we follow him and not to “crown ourselves”–being too much aware of our own wants and......

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23
Oct 2022
God, Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner

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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