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Homily for December 6, 2009: 2nd Sunday of Advent
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jmcgee
Over Thanksgiving, my wife and I traveled down to Maryland to spend time with my in-laws. And while we were there, I met a remarkable young man, Jacob Francis Keller. He is a doctor, a lawyer, a philosopher, an engineer and a poet. He is also an adventurer, and a visionary, and an artist and…
“Advent is a love poem written to us by God”
By
jmcgee
“If the Season of Advent were a book I would file it on a shelf, right at eye-level, foremost among the great works of poetry. Advent is a poem of a bright new beginning. Advent is a love poem written to us from God. This poem of the season of Advent is set to the…
Homily for Thanksgiving: November 26, 2009
By
jmcgee
A lot of us know the story. It was the autumn of 1621. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a rich harvest, the men, women and children who had survived the first year in the New World gathered for a feast to offer thanks. One of the pilgrims wrote at the time: “By the goodness of God,…
Homily for November 15, 2009: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
By
jmcgee
I think most of us could be forgiven for thinking that this reading from Mark’s gospel sounds like the preview for the new movie “2012.” You may have seen it the ads: California slides into the ocean, waves come crashing over the Himalayas, and an aircraft carrier slams into the White House. It is the…
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