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First Sunday of Lent 2024 What Is in the Treasure Box for You?: Find Out When You Meet the Father At the bottom of the Cape Cod Canal, there is a hole, a crater. Fish love to gather in this hole to get out of the fast current. It also allows them to reach out... The post Gospel-Homily for First Sunday of Lent (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Christianity is Ordinary People Empowered to Do the Extraordinary The goal for Lent is to get to Easter. Paul, in his letter, told us how to do that. We are buried with Christ so we can rise with Him. Allow me to illustrate this with an analogy. There was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, so I bought 500... The post Gospel-Homily for Ash Wednesday (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Valuable Information Can Get You Through Any Hardship A man built like a lumberjack, walking his Chihuahua, saw me standing with my fly rod and approached me.  “How was the fishing?” I truthfully told him that I had caught nothing.  He replied, “Morris Island is loaded with fish. I was just there this morning.” My... The post Gospel-Homily for Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Live Like You Are the Luckiest Person in the World. In one of my classes, my Scripture professor explained that the Bible was meant to teach, convince, and inspire us to stand with God no matter how hard it got.  In the 1970s, his only son, who had just turned six, was hit by a... The post Gospel-Homily for Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Devils May Be Powerful, but We Can do Something They Cannot Do: Say to Jesus: I Know You I was teaching a class this past week, and I needed to use a PowerPoint presentation. But I could not get it to work. There were hundreds of wires connecting the computer to the white smart board.... The post Gospel-Homily for Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

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Good Doing Comes After Good Listening. When I worked for my father in construction, he always started the day by meeting with the workers. The supply house delivered sheet rock and left it on the sidewalk. Dad turned to me and told me to bring it to the fourth floor. Naturally, it did not fit in... The post Gospel-Homily for Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Seeing True Treasure The greatest archeological find, ever, was the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls. When the Romans went to war with the Jews in Jerusalem, rich aristocrats took their precious scrolls of the Bible, walked into a pottery shop, bought clay jars, and hid the scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea at... The post Gospel-Homily for Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

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How to Make Hard Tasks Easy I teach New Testament Greek at St. John’s Seminary.  The first thing I told my class on the first day was to put away the notebooks and pens; they would not need them to learn the alphabet. I know what would happen. They would be writing down the Greek... The post Gospel-Homily for Second Sunday of Advent (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Always Have A Reason to Be Grateful and Happy On my way home, I saw a lady standing in front of her car with the hood up. When she saw me, she asked if I had a pair of jumper cables. I told I did and I would get my car. When I said that,... The post Gospel-Homily for First Sunday of Advent (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

For Every Lost Sheep, There Are Ninety-nine Partners Does God love good people more than bad people? Answer: the lost sheep. Jesus leaves the 99 righteous sheep to go after the lost sheep. Think about a sheep lost and alone. Every living being with teeth loves lamb chops; it is an easy dinner. Sheep cannot... The post Gospel-Homily for Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

No Risks, Guaranteed Win When Your Master Is God Let’s talk about parables for a moment. A parable is a simple story about ordinary events, and Jesus throws in a zinger. For example, someone says, “Well, I went into the store, and I took out my wallet and saw a one-dollar bill. I took it... The post Gospel-Homily for Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

A New Way to Enjoy Life There are 10 Virgins. 5 have oil, and five do not. Why? In order to have olive oil for lighting your lamps, you need to grow an olive tree. You have to prune it so you have abundant olives. You need to pick the olives off the tree, pit them,... The post Gospel-Homily for Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Who Do You Choose to Lift Your Burdens? Someone donated a car to our congregation. Yay! So I needed to register the car. I got the form, went to the insurance company, received the stamp, went to the registry of motor vehicles–and the agent told me I had the wrong tax-exempt number. So, I had... The post Gospel-Homily for Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

If Happiness is Fulfillment, then Love is Filling the Void of Need Happiness means fulfillment. So when we are fulfilled, we are happy. If true, then we have a problem. Take, for example, your wallet. Suppose I was going to give you a crisp one hundred dollar bill. I bet you would not say: “I can’t... The post Gospel-Homily for Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

Crossing the Finish Line When the doctor entered the examination room, I told him, “I apologize for wasting your time with a sore throat, congestion, and flu-like symptoms. I never go to the doctor with just the flu. But I am running a marathon in two days. Can you help me?” He asked, “What marathon?”... The post Gospel-Homily for Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2023) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.