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Bishop Taylor Homily Library
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor celebrates Mass across Arkansas and beyond. This library features the homilies delivered from March 2014 to the present. To listen to earlier homilies, please visit the bishop's Homily Archive.
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Solemnity of All Saints 2024 Published: Friday, November 1, 2024 The message for us is that every one of us has an important role in God's plan and that God often calls people when they are still teenagers. I myself was in 11th grade when I began to feel the Lord’s call in my life more intensely. |
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, October 27, 2024 In today's Gospel Jesus restores sight to a man named Bartimaeus. Notice that this healing was spiritual as well as physical because physical disabilities have spiritual consequences. |
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Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Memorial Mass 2024 Published: Saturday, October 19, 2024 We are to love others as Jesus loves them, meaning we are to give our lives for them just as Jesus has given his life for us. It's only when we begin to love like Jesus loves that we truly start to live the beatitudes, because the inner content of the beatitudes is sacrificial love — death to self for the benefit of others. |
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, October 13, 2024 If you love your money more than you love your God, well, your priorities are not in order, so if you’re not giving God the 10 percent minimum that is rightfully his, you may not be able to pass through the eye of that needle either. |
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Consecration of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Lincoln 2024 Published: Thursday, October 10, 2024 Through these outward signs, our ritual of dedication expresses an inner reality: that this is a house of God, set apart for worship, in which Jesus teaches us with his divine word and feeds us with his body and blood, and from which he then sends us forth to bring the word of God and the sacraments of eternal life to others. |
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2024 Respect Life Mass Published: Sunday, October 6, 2024 This "Gospel of Life" that we proclaim places the sacredness of the human person at the center of our teaching and thus touches every aspect of life — in the womb, at the end of life and every stage in between (EV 37). |
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, October 5, 2024 The Gospel is preached most effectively, not by special programs we sponsor, but rather one on one, by the catching force of people living their faith with childlike simplicity often within a family, maybe only gradually or a workplace or neighborhood. |
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2024 School of Spiritual Direction Retreat Mass Published: Sunday, September 29, 2024 What good does it do to say we believe in Jesus if we do not also do what he says? Sure, it’s far better to have the sacraments and correct theology, but just being Catholic will not, of itself, automatically keep you out of hell. After all, Hitler was raised Catholic. |
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, September 28, 2024 One of the most important places where we find “sure footing” for our life is through faith in Jesus which has been nurtured here at Immaculate Conception Parish through prayer and worship and education about our faith for 75 years, and counting |
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Sister Deborah Troillett, RSM, 50th Anniversary Mass Published: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Sister Deborah, you have journeyed with the Lord for over 50 years of religious life. May all your future years be as fruitful as your first 50 — united to the vine and remaining in God’s love. |
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, September 22, 2024 And now the scandal of the cross can be seen for what it is — true greatness. Leading to resurrection. Hope for the hopeless, the cross breaking the power of sin and death. Love for the unlovable in union with God, whose very nature is love. Life for the lost. |
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2024 Published: Saturday, September 14, 2024 All who look with eyes of faith on Jesus lifted high on the cross, who put their trust in him, will be given a permanent reprieve from eternal death. |
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24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, September 14, 2024 We will only be able to bear our own crosses faithfully when we take the risk of dropping our facades of self-sufficiency and begin to share them with others whom we trust. |
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, September 8, 2024 Open your heart to the Lord and open your heart to those in need. To those who are suffering in any way. Today this includes people fleeing wars and other disasters in their countries of origin, refugees and others in desperate circumstances, for whom we need to open our hearts more widely and more generously. |
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Friday, 22nd Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle 2, 2024 Published: Friday, September 6, 2024 But not so the Protestant reform itself, which was an instance of ideology-driven, radical discontinuity that cut the Church to its very roots. They discarded seven books of the Old Testament, most of the sacraments, the pope and 1,500 years of Christian tradition. |
