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Homily for July 12, 2009: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
By
deacon greg kandra
Boston’s Fenway Park has witnessed some great moments in sports history. But I don’t think anything can compare with what happened there two summers ago. The Red Sox were hosting Disability Awareness Night – to honor and salute fans who might have some kind of handicap. The organizers selected a young man named Peter Rometti,…
Homily for July 5, 2009: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
By
deacon greg kandra
My mother grew up in a small town in South Jersey, named Pitman, not far from Philadelphia. It was the kind of place you passed through on your way to someplace else. It was pretty unremarkable – there was a Main Street, called Broadway, with a few stores, a bank, a movie theater and a…
Homily for June 28, 2009: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
By
deacon greg kandra
Over the past several days, we’ve been inundated with stories, pictures, soundbites about three high-profile people who passed away: Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and, of course, Michael Jackson. It has given us all an opportunity to think about living and dying, about fame and the cult of personality that is so much a part of…
Homily for June 21, 2009: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
By
deacon greg kandra
When I was working at CBS News, believe it or not, the moment we just heard about in the gospels was a part of my daily life. In the offices of “60 Minutes,” the executive producer Jeff Fager had hanging on his wall a print of a famous painting by Rembrandt, depicting this very scene.…
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