13th Sunday OT C ~ "I Got Your Back!" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
I grew up on a farm. Early on, I learned that, when you’re plowing a field, the more you look back over your shoulder, the more crooked...
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susan mcgurgan
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ " Heart to Heart" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
“We are in a deserted place,” said the apostles to the Lord. I recognize the setting. It feels like home. A deserted place, an arid...
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susan mcgurgan
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity C ~ "Tango of the Sea" ~ Susan McGurgan
When my three sons were in grade school, we travelled from Cincinnati to San Francisco to visit my brother. Along the way, we stayed in...
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susan mcgurgan
- May 31, 2022
- 5 min
Pentecost C ~ "Pentecost Derecho!' ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
About fifteen years ago in the Midwest, the remnants of a Gulf hurricane wandered up into the Ohio River region. Its low pressure core...
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susan mcgurgan
- May 23, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- May 16, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- May 9, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- May 3, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- Apr 25, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- Apr 19, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- Apr 19, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- Apr 11, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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susan mcgurgan
- Mar 15, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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