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    Feast of the Ascension of the Lord C ~ "Don't Miss a Thing! ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
    susan mcgurgan
    • 5 days ago
    • 2 min

    Feast of the Ascension of the Lord C ~ "Don't Miss a Thing! ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    The month of May is a busy time: Proms. Graduations. Mothers Day. First Communions. Family gatherings on Memorial Day. May is a busy...
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    Easter 6 C ~ "Who?" ~ Susan McGurgan
    susan mcgurgan
    • May 16
    • 3 min

    Easter 6 C ~ "Who?" ~ Susan McGurgan

    Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.” Who is saved? When I was a kid growing up in a town...
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    The Eye of the Homily ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
    susan mcgurgan
    • May 12
    • 2 min

    The Eye of the Homily ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    Can I Get an Amen?: A Survey of Homiletic Strategies that Engage the Listener “Did you see that?” “Did you notice the look on his face?”...
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    Easter 5 C ~ "Empty Chairs" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
    susan mcgurgan
    • May 9
    • 2 min

    Easter 5 C ~ "Empty Chairs" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    Empty chairs. No one likes an empty chair. Family meals. Family reunions. Family of faith. No one likes an empty chair. Today’s gospel...
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    Easter 4 C ~ "Hear My Voice" ~ Susan McGurgan
    susan mcgurgan
    • May 3
    • 2 min

    Easter 4 C ~ "Hear My Voice" ~ Susan McGurgan

    My sheep hear my voice. God’s voice shattered the silence of the void with a Word. God speaks and Hope becomes incarnate, pitching a...
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    Easter 3 C ~ "Come, Have Breakfast" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
    susan mcgurgan
    • Apr 25
    • 6 min

    Easter 3 C ~ "Come, Have Breakfast" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger

    In the first two resurrection appearances of Jesus, the stories began with absence and then the risen Lord was revealed. Here, however,...
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    Easter 2 C ~ "Branded" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
    susan mcgurgan
    • Apr 19
    • 3 min

    Easter 2 C ~ "Branded" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    Back when I was a young boy, there was a TV show I couldn’t wait to watch every week. Come Tuesday nights, I made sure I had my homework...
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    Easter 2 C ~ "We Have a God who Just Keeps on Appearing" ~ Susan McGurgan
    susan mcgurgan
    • Apr 19
    • 3 min

    Easter 2 C ~ "We Have a God who Just Keeps on Appearing" ~ Susan McGurgan

    Poor Thomas… It doesn’t seem to matter that every other disciple doubted at one time or another. It doesn’t seem to matter that the other...
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    Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord ~ John 20:1-9 ~ "Hand-me-Downs" Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
    susan mcgurgan
    • Apr 11
    • 3 min

    Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord ~ John 20:1-9 ~ "Hand-me-Downs" Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    Have you heard of The Laundry Guy? It’s a new TV show staring Patrick Richardson, a self-proclaimed “laundry evangelist.” Richardson...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Apr 4
    • 2 min

    Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion C ~ "Mass in Time of War" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    A friend of mine wrote the following description of attending Mass on an aircraft carrier: It was 1962, the height of the Cold War. I was...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 29
    • 13 min

    Lent 5 A ~ Homiletical Exegesis for the RCIA Scrutiny John 11:1-45, ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger

    The raising of Lazarus in John 11 stands as hinge between Jesus’ public ministry and his private ministry to his disciples. It represents...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 29
    • 4 min

    Lent 5 C ~ "Say Her Name" ~ Susan McGurgan

    Say Her Name is a movement that emerged from the stories of women affected by institutional violence, particularly women from...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 21
    • 2 min

    Lent 4 C ~ "Rehab, County Jails and Lost Parents" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    Young children will occasionally wander off, casting their parents into a temporary state of anxiety and frantic searching until the...
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    Taking Risks: First Person Preaching ~ Susan McGurgan
    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 17
    • 9 min

    Taking Risks: First Person Preaching ~ Susan McGurgan

    First person preaching is an approach that takes one of the characters from the Bible, from Church History, from the communion of Saints...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 15
    • 3 min

    Lent 3 C ~ "Holy Ground" ~Susan McGurgan

    A young Ukrainian violinist, standing alone in a basement in Kyiv, plays a haunting arrangement of an old Ukrainian folk song, filming...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 15
    • 15 min

    A Homiletical Exegesis for Lent 3 Cycle A (RCIA Scrutiny) Readings ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger

    A Catechetical Gospel. For parishes engaged in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the Lenten Scripture lessons remain with Year...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Mar 7
    • 3 min

    Lent 2 C ~ "A Place Called Home" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    What if someone were to say to you, “I saw you under the street light” or “I saw you under the umbrella.” Your first reaction would be...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Feb 28
    • 6 min

    First Sunday in Lent C ~ "Company in the Wilderness" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger

    St. Luke sets the scene quickly and with attention to the key details. Jesus has been baptized at the Jordan by John and now a new drama...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Feb 23
    • 3 min

    8th Sunday OT C ~ "Lessons from the Field" ~ Susan McGurgan

    My grandfather Roy was born into a family that pioneered on the high plains of north-west Kansas. He began life in a sod house, a home...
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    susan mcgurgan
    • Feb 15
    • 3 min

    7th Sunday OT C ~ "Freedom" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer

    I once heard a preacher say that the Ten Commandments were ten ways of God saying, “Don’t hurt yourself. Please, don’t hurt yourself.” A...
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