First Sunday of Advent - A (December 1,
2013)
Readings: Isaiah 2: 1-5/ Romans 13: 11-14
/ Matthew 24: 37-44
Fr. Charles Johnson, OP
If I ask what you long
for in life, will it be the same as what you prepare for? Is what you
expect to come to pass the same as what you hope for? In other...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Second Sunday of Advent - A (December 8, 2013) Homily
Second Sunday
of Advent - A (December 8, 2013)
Gospel
reading: Matthew 3: 1-12
Fr Charles Johnson,
O.P.
One of the great
spiritual writers of our time, Padre Ignacio Larrañaga, a Capuchin Franciscan
priest who lived in Chile, died in late October at 85 years of age. I had
the privilege of hearing him give a talk 4 years ago in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador,
where...
Monday, November 18, 2013
Gospel Reading: Luke 20: 27-38/ Homily (Nov. 10, 2013)
XXXII Sunday Ordinary Time – C (Nov. 10, 2013)
Gospel reading: Luke 20: 27-38
Fr. Charles Johnson, O.P.
I’ve just experienced a week framed by deaths. One, a Dominican priest who lived in Texas,
died only weeks after being diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable lung
condition. The other was a recently
retired professor and member of our Catholic community here at...
Monday, October 28, 2013
10/27/2013 Homily Gospel reading: Luke 18: 9-14
Gospel reading: Luke 18: 9-14
Fr. Charles Johnson, O.P.
The recent lecture here on campus had an enticing title, “The
Persistence of Guilt in a Post-Religious Age.”
As always, the questions afterwards were interesting. One question from the audience, more like a
commentary,...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Homily for XXIX Sunday (Oct. 20, 2013): Gospel reading: Luke 18: 1-8
Homily for XXIX Sunday
Ordinary Time -C (Oct. 20, 2013)
Gospel reading: Luke 18: 1-8
Fr. Charles Johnson, O.P.
For a
time, I entertained the idea of law school.
As a political science major, it was often a topic of conversation with
classmates as some of them are now attorneys.
However, in classes and later work in the political field where I had
and interpret...
Thursday, October 17, 2013
XXVIII Sunday Ordinary Time (C) – October 13, 2013 ~ Gospel reading: Luke 17: 11-19
XXVIII Sunday Ordinary Time (C) – October 13, 2013 ~ Gospel
reading: Luke 17: 11-19
Fr. Charles Johnson, O.P.
Have you
ever been frustrated by thinking up the perfect comeback in a discussion or
argument, but well after the fact? Or,
maybe you have thought of how you should have acted in a similar moment, only
to regret that the opportunity is now part of the past.
Personally,
I...
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Pope Uses Communion Wafers Made By Woman Prisoner in Argentina
Pope Francis has been using Communion wafers made by an Argentine prisoner in daily Masses at the Vatican’s Santa Marta residence. Click on the link to read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/prisoner-pope-francis-communion-wafers_n_3825468.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl22%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D3652...
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