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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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Chrism Mass 2025 Published: Monday, April 14, 2025 These oils are blessed and consecrated at this one Mass as a sign of our unity as one Church and will be taken from here to all the parishes in our state and used throughout the coming year for the administration of the sacraments in which we all share. |
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Palm Sunday 2025 Published: Sunday, April 13, 2025 We mark Jesus' apparently triumphant entry into Jerusalem, hailed as king, honored as the messianic Son of David, greeted with branches cut from trees and hosannas on people’s lips. But then Mass gets underway ... in which we mark Jesus' apparent defeat. |
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2025 Fifth Grade Vocations Day in Central Arkansas Published: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 My hope is that you will grow in the realization that Jesus will be with you and will help you if you are true to him and that being true to him means doing what he is asking of you already now as a fifth grader. Can you honestly say that Jesus is your best friend? If he is, then doing what he asks will be easy because your “yes” to him is solid. |
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2025 Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C Published: Sunday, April 6, 2025 People don’t have to commit any great crime to merit our condemnation. We judge peoples’ motives without having all the facts. We gossip, cast verbal stones, against people whose foibles and sins are no worse than our own; try to make ourselves look good at their expense. |
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2025 Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C Published: Sunday, March 30, 2025 We exchange a sign of peace and mutual acceptance, which is the price of admission to this banquet of God’s unconditional love. Mass is not an awards banquet for the righteous; it is a hospital for people with wounded souls — often self-inflicted spiritual wounds, and thus a place of healing for sinners, whether our selfishness resembles that of the older son or the younger son, or both. |
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2025 Third Sunday of Lent, Year C Published: Sunday, March 23, 2025 Are there things in your past that you bitterly regret, for which you need God’s forgiveness? Or things in the present that you still need to set right? Today’s Gospel tells us what will happen if we don’t make the necessary changes. We will all come to a bad end unless we reform. |
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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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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 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. |
