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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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Ash Wednesday 2025 Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Lent is a time of purification while still on earth. Its purpose is to deepen our conversion, free us from the power — and fires — of hell, reduce our need for further purification in purgatory after death, and to ready us to share fully in the fruits of Jesus’ Easter victory. |
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25th Anniversary of Perpetual Adoration in Benton Published: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Persistent prayer changes us, not God, and I am sure that all of us have experienced this in persistent eucharistic adoration. This time with the Lord stretches us and strengthens us to confront evil and overcome obstacles. |
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7º Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario, Año C, 2025 Published: Sunday, February 23, 2025 Jesús nos amó incluso cuando éramos pecadores, enemigos de Dios, y a través de su oración, palabras útiles y la última buena acción de autosacrificio de morir por nosotros en la cruz, finalmente pudo tocar nuestros corazones y conquistarnos. |
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2025 Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Published: Sunday, February 23, 2025 Jesus loved us even when we were sinners, enemies of God, so to speak, and through his prayer, helpful words and the ultimate self-sacrificing good deed of dying for us on the cross, he was finally able to touch our hearts and win us over. |
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2025 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Published: Sunday, February 16, 2025 Satan, the prince of lies, can turn the whole world against us for a time — like he did against Jesus — get people to hate us, exclude us, insult us, make it look like we’re the bad guys. He treats all the saints that way. But Satan will not prevail. |
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2025 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Published: Sunday, February 9, 2025 In today’s Gospel, that’s what Peter, James and John do. They leave their inheritance, their job, abandon their boats and the tools of their trade, their livelihood, even their families. They leave behind everything that was familiar and secure to follow Jesus, a man they’ve just met who makes them no promises and about whom they don’t yet know much, but in whom they know they’ve heard a call from God. You and I are called to do the same. |
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2025 Arkansas Catholic Men's Conference Published: Saturday, February 8, 2025 Do you often feel like the Energizer Bunny? We are very achievement-oriented, and I know some of you have lots of irons in the fire. Perhaps Jesus is inviting you to chill a little, “to come with him to an out of the way place and rest a little” — to recharge your batteries, a daily holy hour, or maybe initially a daily “holy 10 minutes.” Every one of us ought to be able to set aside 10 minutes a day for prayer. |
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2025 Presentation of the Lord Published: Sunday, February 2, 2025 Today we bless candles in honor of Christ — who is the light of the nations and the light of our life — asking God to continue to rescue us from the power of darkness and lead us along the right path until we are finally enveloped in eternal light. |
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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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2025 Women of Hope Retreat Published: Saturday, February 1, 2025 As we see in today's Gospel, sometimes it serves God's purposes to calm storms when we cry out to him for help. But there are also plenty of other times when the storm itself serves God's purposes and faithfulness to him requires us simply to embrace that cross with love. |
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2025 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Published: Sunday, January 26, 2025 God was the author of the events described, which is different from our concept of authorship. He didn’t write the text with pen and paper, but he is its source, and he guided its development, and so is in that sense the author — the intellectual author of the Bible. |
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Mass for Life 2025 Published: Sunday, January 19, 2025 We too, like Mary, can intervene with Jesus in prayer, which we do all the time during Mass and at 40 Days for Life and in our March for Life. And we can intervene with our legislators. And in direct contact with abortion-minded women and in providing concrete services to pregnant women at our life-saving pregnancy resource centers. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Mass 2025 Published: Saturday, January 18, 2025 It is one thing to talk about racism in the abstract, but quite another to go to the museum at Central High School and see photos of grim-faced teenagers enduring taunts as they tried to go to school, and photos of terrified adults being attacked by dogs in Selma. |
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Baptism of the Lord 2025 Published: Sunday, January 12, 2025 It's not written that God's call comes only when we're in 12th grade, or before we have to choose a major in college. Many of us reach midlife before life's difficulties have stretched us enough and humbled us enough to hear God's voice; God's call. |
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Epiphany of the Lord 2025 Published: Sunday, January 5, 2025 We are a church of theologians and mystics. Our beliefs are clearly articulated but in living our faith we are encouraged to follow our star down whatever path the Spirit of God leads us. |
