Bishop Taylor Homily Library

Homilías en Español

E.g., 03/29/2024
E.g., 03/29/2024

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.

Solemnity of All Saints 2015
Published: Saturday, October 31, 2015
How hard do you really try to be pure of heart? Most people try to live “good” lives, or more precisely: “good enough” lives, but good enough for what? Good enough to stay out of jail? Good enough to make it into purgatory?
White Mass 2015
Published: Friday, October 30, 2015
Patients tell you secrets that only their confessor knows and which you receive with healing compassion.
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Thursday, October 22, 2015
I often remind people that God has no grandchildren, only children. You can't just passively inherit the faith.
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Do you feel a stirring in your heart? Can you see that love is the solution to most of the problems in our world? And that Jesus is the source of that love? 
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, October 4, 2015
But Jesus teaches that if a marriage is valid, divorce may end its civil effects, split up the property, but it does not end its spiritual bond — and sex with anyone else is adultery.
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, September 20, 2015
True greatness comes not from the power to dominate; to coerce, but rather from the ability to persuade.
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, September 13, 2015
Throughout the Gospels Jesus indicates that his way is the road less traveled that leads to salvation.
Saturday, 23rd Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle I
Published: Saturday, September 12, 2015
You will face some excessively dry periods in which if neglected, your spiritual life could shrink and your foundation crack due to lack of spiritual moisture.
Friday, 23rd Week, Ordinary Time, Cycle I
Published: Friday, September 11, 2015
The cure for hypocrisy, the cure for pretense, is humility. 
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, September 6, 2015
The purpose of faith is to empower us to love and serve God in this life so as to be happy with him forever in the next.
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, August 9, 2015
In today's Gospel Jesus clarifies that the bread that he will give is his flesh, for the life of the world.
Mass with Seminarians and Parents 2015
Published: Saturday, August 8, 2015
So it is important to remember that it's not about us and if we take opposition personally, it may be because we feel our authority to be threatened, which was what Jesus' adversaries were feeling.
Monday, 18th Week, Ordinary Time, Cycle I
Published: Monday, August 3, 2015
God will see to it that our needs will be provided for. And not just material needs, our human needs as well.
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, August 2, 2015
They should seek this spiritual bread with at least the same desire and effort that they invest in working for perishable earthly bread.
Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church
Published: Saturday, August 1, 2015
When the night is at its darkest, that is the time when our Church needs to stand out at its radiant best.

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