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Feb 2023
The devil tempted Jesus Christ in the desert three separate times. Each time, Christ was able to overcome temptation without having a conflict with the Devil.
We, too, need to overcome temptations and Jesus shows us how....
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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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11
Feb 2023
Jesus calls us to follow His lead--helping the homeless, caring for the oppressed, helping feed the hungry. "The poor are with us always" (a truth in the past and lasting today.) Take the time to ask, "Lord, what would you have me do?"...
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Dec 2022
While Christ is the Son of God, rather than threatening humans with His power and might, God had Jesus come to us as an infant, someone loving and needing to be loved and cared for....
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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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Nov 2022
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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06
Nov 2022
Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for All Saints Sunday–the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, 11/06/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL Ambrose Pierce, famous humorist, wrote a comic dictionary in which he defined “Saint” as “a dead sinner revised and edited.” Fr Mike reminds us that we are to reflect the image of Christ and to allow Jesus to do the revising and editing so that we, too, can become saints. (Readings: Daniel 7: 1-3, 15-18; Psalm – 149; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6: 20-36) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist–All Saints Sunday–22nd Sunday after Pentecost Link: Tithe.ly–Our......
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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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