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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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Oct 2022
How much more responsive than an unjust judge will God be to the persistent pleas of His people?...
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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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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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Sep 2022
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Sep 2022
As Baptized Christians, we are called to reflect Christ's love and mercy into our world throughout our lives. We are called to reflect Christ as members of His body and to express Christ's loving and concern, embracing others regardless of their behavior or background....
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05
Sep 2022
Working with the Holy Spirit , Christ is remaking us as we live our lives. We need to put our focus on Christ and to imitate him in our daily lives....
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28
Aug 2022
God loves us and we need to recognize, accept, and honor that love. God calls us to be His Holy People and Christ gives us some specific things to do as hosts for a dinner or a meal....
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21
Aug 2022
We are called to be like Jesus. The world needs Christ's love and mercy today. We are blessed through baptism to be with Christ and He is with us always. Our lives need to be a reflection to everyone who sees us of Christ's Love and Mercy....
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Aug 2022
Jesus tells His disciples that he came to bring fire to the earth, to create division in families. People choose to follow Jesus and His path home to God, letting go of other ways of living....
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