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the Good Samaritan: against purity, towards doing your best
Andrew Stone Porter St. William Church Homily 10 July 2022 Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 I once worked for a farmer who was very wise. He taught me one lesson in particular that has stuck with me for years. I don’t remember the context in which he delivered this lesson, but at the time,…
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Homily 3/21/21, St. William Church
Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 5:7-9, John 12:20-33 Good morning, friends. The Vatican II document Lumen Gentium says: [T]he chosen People of God is one: “one Lord, one faith, one baptism”; sharing a common dignity as members from their regeneration in Christ, having the same filial grace and the same vocation to perfection; possessing in common one…
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A Survivor-Centered Response to Allegations Against David Haas
“St. William is a peacemaking community of faith, inspired by our rich tradition of peace and justice, and empowered by our joyful celebration of Word and Sacrament. In that spirit, we continue to be voices that challenge one another, our church and our world. We commit ourselves and our resources to serve the poor and…
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Trans/figuration, 17 March 2019
Gen 15:5-12, 17-18 Phil 3:17-4:1 Lk 9:28B-36 The framers of the Catholic lectionary invariably have a Sunday lesson they are pushing in their weekly selections from the Hebrew scriptures, the epistles and the gospels. I gather from the readings that this morning my reflection is supposed to go something like this *ahem*: “Today’s gospel…
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Advent and Apocalypse, 2 Dec. 2018
Andrew Stone Porter First Sunday in Advent, 12.2.18 Jer 33:14-16 1 Thess 3:12-4:2 Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 New Testament scholars have been searching for decades for the Holy Grail of Biblical studies: “The Historical Jesus.” Scholars pore through archeological evidence, compare ancient textual archives, and examine archaic languages, cultures and civilizations to try to answer a…
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Palm Sunday Homily on Jesus, Jonathan Daniels and Ruby Sales, March 25, 2018
If you have been to the Abbey of Gethsemani, then you know that across the road from the monastery are woods which are intended for silent, prayerful walks. A modest path opens from the road into the woods, and by the path there is a sign with an arrow that says, “to the statues.” If…
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Feast of the Holy Family Homily Colossians 3:12-21, Luke 2:22-40
“You who are in committed relationships, be submissive to each other.” Colossians, chapter 3, verse 18. Or so the “Inclusive Bible” translation we use would have us believe. The New Revised Standard Version, which is far more faithful to the original sense of the text, has instead, “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is…
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NO SHELTER
after Emilie Townes When you find yourself tucked away in the corner nook of a garage waiting on a tornado along with two of your distinguished professors and their eighty-three year-old aunt and their little dog, too certain theo-ethical quandaries are bound to emerge and start to spin with the deadly force of nature particularly…
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A Homily on Advent, John the Baptist, Donald Trump, White Christians, Dolores Williams, and the Wilderness
Is 11:1-10; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 Good morning, everybody. You know, Sharan always asks me to preach on the bloody, fiery, violent Sundays. I preached when Jesus said “I come not to bring peace, but the sword”; I preached on Palm Sunday; and now I’m preaching about tearing things down and throwing them into…
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Palm Sunday Homily
Andrew Stone Porter St. William Church 18 March 2016 Mt 26:14-27:66 Who can we blame for Jesus’ death? Can we blame Judas, who betrayed the Son of Man with a kiss? Can we blame Peter, who insisted to Jesus’ face that he would die before denying him, and behind his back swore “I…