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Bishop Taylor Homily Library
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor celebrates Mass across Arkansas and beyond. This library features the homilies delivered from March 2014 to the present. To listen to earlier homilies, please visit the bishop's Homily Archive.
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Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal 2025 Published: Sunday, February 2, 2025 If we are not aligned with the Kingdom of God now in the way we live our life now, how do we expect to share in the life of the Kingdom of God in the world to come? If we aren't making sacrifices to make the world a better place now, whose kingdom are we building with our efforts? Our own, or the Lord's? |
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Opening Mass Jubilee Year 2025 Published: Sunday, December 29, 2024 And this year if you visit one of our specially designated jubilee churches as a pilgrim and pray there for the intentions of the Holy Father, and then go to confession and receive Communion in any Catholic church, you will get a plenary indulgence. |
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Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) 2024 Published: Tuesday, December 24, 2024 You who are parents surely remember how much you were changed by the birth of your first child. That newborn captured your heart and began to reign in your home, completely rearranging your schedule and your priorities, your sense of what is important, and so also to an even greater degree should the baby Jesus capture our hearts and reign in us, rearranging our priorities to the point that doing his will becomes the determining factor in everything we do. |
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Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Sunday, December 22, 2024 Liturgies are always worship, for instance the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. The Hail Mary, on the other hand is not worship, but it is a spiritual conversation with the mother of God in heaven. In it we praise Mary, profess our faith in her Son and ask for her prayers. |
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Friday of the Third Week of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Friday, December 20, 2024 Jesus shows us that God is always true to his promises — to the death. And since every covenant is a reciprocal agreement between two parties, we are obligated to do the same thing that he did. So, do you fulfill your promises to him? To the death? |
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Third Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Sunday, December 15, 2024 "Deliver us, Lord, from every evil and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ." So, what are you afraid of? It can't be anything greater than the power that God gives us to confront our fears and overcome them! |
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Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 When we were children, our parents not only tied our shoes, they also sought to bind us to particular values, a particular faith, particular relationships — for which I, for one, am eternally grateful. But there does come a time when we have to learn to tie our own shoes, to make those values our own, to take personal ownership for our relationship with the Lord. |
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Second Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Sunday, December 8, 2024 Jesus is at the door and is knocking. Listen to his voice, grab that knob and open the door. Receive him into your heart now, and thus also on Christmas and for always, until his second coming on the last day. |
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2024 Published: Saturday, December 7, 2024 And all of the stories of the roses and the miraculous image on his tilma remind us that the conversion of Mexico that was made possible not only because of Mary's intervention, but also because of Juan Diego's willingness to do what she asked. |
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Thanksgiving 2024 Published: Monday, November 25, 2024 We need to open our eyes and see, open our hearts and feel, open our lips and say with Jesus, "Father, I thank you." The bottom line, that's what Thanksgiving is all about. |
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Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 2024 Published: Sunday, November 24, 2024 Earthly nations have borders, but the Kingdom of God has no limits, be they territorial, linguistic or racial, no boundaries at all. And unlike politics in most countries, everything in the Kingdom of God is true, sincere and just. No “alternate truths” that are really lies, none of the disinformation and disregard for the truth that has so corrupted our public discourse. |
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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, November 17, 2024 If you entrust your troubles to Jesus, take his hand and place your confidence in him, Jesus will lead you out of darkness into the light. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, even if the exit still has not yet quite come into view. |
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Solemnity of All Saints 2024 Published: Friday, November 1, 2024 The message for us is that every one of us has an important role in God's plan and that God often calls people when they are still teenagers. I myself was in 11th grade when I began to feel the Lord’s call in my life more intensely. |
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, October 27, 2024 In today's Gospel Jesus restores sight to a man named Bartimaeus. Notice that this healing was spiritual as well as physical because physical disabilities have spiritual consequences. |
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Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Memorial Mass 2024 Published: Saturday, October 19, 2024 We are to love others as Jesus loves them, meaning we are to give our lives for them just as Jesus has given his life for us. It's only when we begin to love like Jesus loves that we truly start to live the beatitudes, because the inner content of the beatitudes is sacrificial love — death to self for the benefit of others. |
