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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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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. |
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Palm Sunday 2026 Published: Sunday, March 29, 2026 As we begin this Holy Week, we lift up palms to remind ourselves of just how fickle we are. We honor the Lord one day and yet are fully capable of betraying him the next. |
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Ash Wednesday 2026 Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 ...we have to forgive those other people who have trespassed against us, |
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Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal 2026 Published: Sunday, February 8, 2026 This is one way in which you can be the salt of the earth and the light of the world in Arkansas today. Please join me in making not only CASA but indeed this entire year a shared blessing for everyone. |
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Arkansas Catholic Men’s Conference 2026 Published: Saturday, February 7, 2026 Is that part of your story? |
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Women of Hope retreat 2026 Published: Saturday, January 31, 2026 Have you ever felt trapped and alone and powerless? |
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026 Published: Sunday, January 25, 2026 A sinful past was no excuse. Lack of schooling was no excuse. Both of these can be remedied. |
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Mass for Life 2026 Published: Sunday, January 18, 2026 Meaning that we too must address the evils of our day — not turn a blind eye to them with a live and let live attitude. |
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Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot Published: Saturday, January 17, 2026 There has been amazing scientific progress in recent years, but medical skill alone is not enough. Much courage is also required. |
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The Baptism of the Lord 2026 Published: Sunday, January 11, 2026 You might be a bad Catholic or a fallen-away Catholic, but you're still a Catholic, whether you end up going to heaven or not. |
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Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph 2025 Published: Sunday, December 28, 2025 When you and I say family, we usually think of the nuclear family of a husband, wife and children, even though only 36 percent of American households fit that pattern. |
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The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) 2025 Published: Thursday, December 25, 2025 This light, which enlightens everyone, has now come into the world. |
