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Father Richard's Homilies for 2012

Father Richard's Homilies for 2012

View 12/30/2012
Sunday After the Nativity of Our Lord
Are We Utilitarians?
View 12/25/2012
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord
This Is Not Our Real Home
View 12/24/2012
Christmas Eve
We Have No King But Jesus
View 12/23/2012
Sunday of the Ancestors
What Makes Our Celebration of Christmas Christian?
View 12/16/2012
Sunday of the Forefathers
Let Us Live Deeply Our Faith
View 12/9/2012
Conception of St. Anne
Who Are We Busy For?
View 12/2/2012
Twenty-Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Jesus Christ Alone Remains
View 11/25/2012
Twenty-Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Let Us Live and Act as Wise People
View 11/18/2012
Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Don't Leave Virtue to Chance
View 11/11/2012
Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
If We Love Our Neighbor, We Should Always Be Willing to Share the Truth
View 11/04/2012
Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
To Live in Faith Is to Turn Our Lives Over to Jesus and Trust in His Way of Truth and Life
View 10/28/2012
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
All Things Change—Only Jesus Christ Is Our Place of Refuge
View 10/21/2012
Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
How Well Are We Feeding Our Souls?
View 10/14/2012
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost / The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
Am I a Source of Discord, Trouble or Selfishness?
View 10/07/2012
Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Life Is Fleeting—May We Live With a Keen Awareness of and in a Continuing Conversation of Prayer With Our Lord
View 9/30/2012
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Do I Have the Humility of the Woman in Today's Gospel?
View 9/23/2012
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost / Memory of the Conception of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
May We Grow in Gratitude
View 9/16/2012
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost / Sunday After Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Jesus' Cross Is Our Only Boast
View 9/09/2012
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost / Sunday After Nativity of the Mother of God
What Moves You?
View 9/02/2012
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
How Often Do We Say No to God?
View 8/26/2012
Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
What to Do With the Servants?
View 8/19/2012
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
What Is a Good Life and How Do I Live It?
View 8/12/2012
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Choose to Forgive
View 8/05/2012
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Do I Live Honorably as a Child of God?
View 7/29/2012
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
Do I Have Walk-On-Water Faith?
View 7/22/2012
Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
Are We Growing in Our Love for God and for One Another?
View 7/15/2012
Sunday of the Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils
What Do We Say to Jesus?
View 7/08/2012
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Let Us Love As Christ Loved
View 7/01/2012
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Do I Really Know Christ?
View 6/24/2012
Nativity of John the Baptist
We, Too, Have a Prophetic Vocation
View 6/17/2012
Third Sunday After Pentecost
In Whom Do We Place Our Hope?
View 6/10/2012
Second Sunday After Pentecost
Patience
View 6/03/2012
Sunday of All Saints
Cultivating the Fruits of the Holy Spirit
View 5/27/2012
Sunday of Pentecost / Fifty Days After Easter
What We Celebrate Shows What Is Important to Us
View 5/20/2012
Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
The Great Gift of the Church
View 5/13/2012
Sunday of the Man Born Blind
Without His Light We Are Blind
View 5/06/2012
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
We've Found the Living Water—How Has It Changed Us?
View 4/29/2012
Sunday of the Paralytic Man
Do You Want to Be Healed?
View 4/22/2012
Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
We Are Called to Witness to Christ in How We Live
View 4/15/2012
Thomas Sunday
Jesus Can Be Touched, He Is Still A Human Body
View 4/08/2012
Pascha / Easter Sunday
Let's Not Be Afraid of Death; Let's Not Be Afraid to Really Live
View 4/01/2012
Flowery Sunday / Palm Sunday
Let's Make a Spiritual Pilgrimage This Week
View 3/25/2012
Annunciation of the Mother of God
May We Open Our Hearts More Completely To God Who Became Man for Our Sakes
View 3/18/2012
Fourth Sunday of the Great Fast
Lord, I Do Believe, Help My Lack of Faith
View 3/11/2012
Third Sunday of the Great Fast / Veneration of the Holy Cross
Jesus Is On the Mercy Seat
View 3/04/2012
Second Sunday of the Great Fast / Healing of the Paralytic
Confession Rids Us of the Heavy Burden of Sin
View 2/26/2012
First Sunday of the Great Fast / Sunday of Orthodoxy
Do I Ever Lust for Power?
View 2/19/2012
Cheesefare Sunday / Forgiveness Sunday
Christ Came to Change Us "In Here"
View 2/12/2012
Meatfare Sunday / Judgment Sunday
Am I Being Divisive?
View 2/05/2012
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
We Must Fight Against Boredom
View 1/29/2012
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
Do We Know What Sin Is?
View 1/22/2012
Thirty-Second Sunday After Pentecost / Sunday of Zacchaeus
Are We Enthusiastic for Jesus?
View 1/15/2012
Thirty-First Sunday After Pentecost
If We Put on Christ—and Leave Everything in His Hands
View 1/08/2012
Sunday After Theophany
Is There a Moral Code Greater Than My Own?
View 1/01/2012
Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord
Who Knows Morality Better Than Me?