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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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Jubilee Celebration for Sister Marilyn Doss, OSB Published: Monday, October 13, 2014 Jesus uses his own relationship with the Father as the model for the love and unity that should characterize our lives. |
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, October 12, 2014 Those who say they are Christians but live like pagans are excluded. They are like the man not properly dressed for the banquet. |
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, October 5, 2014 Every one of us has some area of personal brokenness deep down that is a source of self-questioning anxiety that weighs on us, and which we can pretend isn't there, but it is. |
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Friday, 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle II Published: Friday, October 3, 2014 And yet what a source of inner freedom it is to sincerely seek to do his will in all things. You'll sleep well at night — even in trying times. |
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Father James Melnick Suspended from Ministry Published: Saturday, September 27, 2014 |
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, September 21, 2014 Jesus inaugurates a whole new system of values. |
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Saturday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle II Published: Saturday, September 20, 2014 We should then go forth as sowers ourselves and scatter the seed produced in that hundredfold yield, investing ourselves generously in others with optimism and enthusiasm. |
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Friday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle II Published: Friday, September 19, 2014 Paul responds that if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, then the whole Christian enterprise is in vain. |
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Wednesday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle II Published: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 So today we thank you for your service and dedication, we pray for your safety and we ask God to shower special graces upon you. |
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Saturday, September 6, 2014 |
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Friday, 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Friday, September 5, 2014 The idea here is that Jesus is the pilot who steers the boat and we are the slaves who pull with all our might as Jesus directs. Literally as "oarsmen of Christ." |
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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, August 31, 2014 The cross, when embraced with love and trust that God knows what he's doing, changes us. |
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21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, August 24, 2014 Most Americans no longer believe in an all-powerful God capable of creating win-win situations that benefit everyone. |
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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Saturday, August 16, 2014 Catholicism is more than just a collection of beliefs, it is also an attitude of welcome and inclusion and respect; openness to everyone. |
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Published: Friday, August 15, 2014 Elizabeth cries out with words that we now pray in the Hail Mary: "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb." |
