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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton

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Precious in the Eyes of God - Weekday Homily Video

In the book of Genesis, we read the story of Joseph and his brothers. Jacob, the father of Joseph, loved Joseph so much that he even made for him a beautiful cloak with many colors and patterns. The affection Joseph enjoyed from his father stoked much jealousy among his brothers.

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Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus - Weekday Homily Video

The Gospel of Mark highlights that how we see things isn’t always the way God sees them. One way of looking at John’s story of trying to stop a man from performing exorcisms is to see it as a turf issue. As John said, “…he does not follow us.”

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Turn to Our Lady of Lourdes - Weekday Homily Video

Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes and the World Day of Prayer for the Sick. We also hear the Blessed Mother’s instruction in the Gospel of John to the waiter, to “Do whatever he tells you.” One day I hope to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine at Lourdes in France. For, it is a place that I have heard about since I was a child, beginning with my mother’s powerful experience of witnessing throngs of people from around the world assisting family, friends, and even strangers who were ill and infirmed in wheelchairs and stretchers to join in the procession and Rosary prayer for all those seeking healing.

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Finding True Abundance and Spiritual Fulfillment - Weekday Homily Video

Let me start with a scene we have all seen or heard about—people camping outside famous stores for days, waiting to buy the latest phone or the hottest ticket to their favorite artist’s show. One man camping outside a store for three days for his latest smart phone even called it “a spiritual pilgrimage for pixels.” But here’s the irony—a year or two later, that same phone is buried in a drawer, replaced by the next big thing.

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Perseverance Bears Good Fruit - Weekday Homily Video

In the year 1886 in my home country of Uganda when Christianity had been introduced in the country for around 20 years, the King of Buganda then, Mwanga, issued an order that there was not to be any more practice of the faith in his kingdom. He ordered all who had embraced the faith and were practicing it to renounce it or he would put them to death.

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Overcoming Doubt by Seeking Jesus - Weekday Homily Video

Today’s gospel from Matthew is known as the Great Commission and it takes place after the Resurrection of Jesus and up on a mountain. This final scene also takes place in Galilee which brings the story full circle. For it was in this area that Jesus grew up, where the first apostles were called, and where the message of the kingdom was first preached.

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