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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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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Published: Sunday, July 26, 2026 Like immigrants wanting a better life for their children, your parents had you baptized, but now it is up to you to decide what you're going to do. |
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Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Published: Friday, July 24, 2026 And we must pull up the weeds of materialism and worldly anxiety that will otherwise choke off the harvest we could have produced. |
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Published: Sunday, July 19, 2026 In the meantime, there will always be a certain amount of brokenness that we just have to sort of put up with, including inside ourselves. |
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026 Published: Sunday, June 28, 2026 If your priorities are wrong, you'll do the right thing only by accident and probably not very often. |
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Jubilarian Mass at Cathedral of St. Andrew Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 We lay prostrate before the altar during the litany of the saints as a visible sign that through ordination we die to this world so that, like Jesus in whose priesthood we share, we might bring life to others. |
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Priesthood Ordination of Fathers Duwan Booker, Quinton Thomas, Tuan Do, Christopher Elser and Joseph Nguyen Published: Saturday, May 30, 2026 What makes people so angry is that to embrace that truth, we have to change, repent and leave behind what is comfortable but false. It is only by changing hearts that we change the world, and that requires us to grapple with evil, and it isn't always pretty. |
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Deacon Ordination of Joshua Osborne Published: Saturday, May 23, 2026 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.” |
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Installation of Acolyte of Diocesan Seminarians Mass Published: Saturday, May 16, 2026 ...you also become one body with them. |
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Installation to Lector of Diocesan Seminarians Mass Published: Saturday, May 9, 2026 Ordained ministry is a life lived for others, and that’s not easy. |
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Fifth Sunday of Easter 2026 Published: Sunday, May 3, 2026 We're not exactly blindfolded, but sometimes we get so thoroughly blindsided by events that it seems like we are. |
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Fourth Sunday of Easter 2026 Published: Sunday, April 26, 2026 Others might live in more expensive houses, but no one had a better home. |
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Easter Vigil 2026 Published: Saturday, April 4, 2026 In baptism, we die with Jesus sacramentally, and once dead, sin no longer has power over us. |
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Good Friday 2026 Published: Friday, April 3, 2026 We ask to be delivered from evil, yet only God knows what is truly best for us, and so we resent it when God doesn’t do things the way we would prefer. |
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Holy Thursday 2026 Published: Thursday, April 2, 2026 And at every Mass, we don’t just recall these marvelous events of our salvation, we re-member them, relive them, become party to them once again. |
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Chrism Mass 2026 Published: Monday, March 30, 2026 But what about the olive? This is harder for us to understand. We eat so much fatty meat and fried food that we forget that people whose cuisines include far less meat need a lot more supplemental oil than we do. |
