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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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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, September 22, 2024 And now the scandal of the cross can be seen for what it is — true greatness. Leading to resurrection. Hope for the hopeless, the cross breaking the power of sin and death. Love for the unlovable in union with God, whose very nature is love. Life for the lost. |
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2024 Published: Saturday, September 14, 2024 All who look with eyes of faith on Jesus lifted high on the cross, who put their trust in him, will be given a permanent reprieve from eternal death. |
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24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, September 14, 2024 We will only be able to bear our own crosses faithfully when we take the risk of dropping our facades of self-sufficiency and begin to share them with others whom we trust. |
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, September 8, 2024 Open your heart to the Lord and open your heart to those in need. To those who are suffering in any way. Today this includes people fleeing wars and other disasters in their countries of origin, refugees and others in desperate circumstances, for whom we need to open our hearts more widely and more generously. |
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Friday, 22nd Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle 2, 2024 Published: Friday, September 6, 2024 But not so the Protestant reform itself, which was an instance of ideology-driven, radical discontinuity that cut the Church to its very roots. They discarded seven books of the Old Testament, most of the sacraments, the pope and 1,500 years of Christian tradition. |
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2024 St. Teresa of Kolkata Feast Day Mass Published: Thursday, September 5, 2024 She treated each person with the inherent dignity that they deserved as children of God. It didn’t matter how repulsive they were, nor whether they were what we would call good people. |
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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, September 1, 2024 What Jesus says here is that when worship is motivated by duty or fear or anything else other than love, it can actually lead us away from the one and only God of love rather than closer to him. |
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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, August 10, 2024 The Bible says that no human can see God and still live. Jesus can see God because he is God, but since Jesus is also human, you and I can look at Jesus — and thus, in that way, see God and still live. Indeed, instead of dying because we see God, we receive eternal life because we see him in Jesus. |
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Mass with Seminarians and Carmelite Sisters 2024 Published: Monday, August 5, 2024 You are swimming against the current of an increasingly secular world and many people really don’t understand your embrace of a vocation rooted in truths that only a person of faith can understand. |
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, July 28, 2024 When we were babies, all our needs were met, and in God’s eyes, you and I are still babies. We thank the Lord for all his care up to now and trust in his providence through all the ups and downs of life, for all the years to come. |
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15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, July 14, 2024 Evil from the outside gets inside us only when invited in by a kindred spirit that we have let take root within, which we have to get rid of if we want ever truly to be free. |
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Catholic Charities Summer Institute Mass 2024 Published: Friday, July 12, 2024 These days we cannot expect the support of our increasingly pagan society and sometimes not even the support of family members and friends who have drifted from really living the faith, which is why it is so important for us to learn how to support each other in living our faith. |
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Jubilarian Mass at Holy Angels Convent 2024 Published: Thursday, July 11, 2024 We thank the Lord for the gift that Sister Mary John and Sister Helen have been for us and for the gifts that the Lord has given them over the course of so many years of service. |
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14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, July 7, 2024 Most of us no longer live in our childhood home, and many of us are not even in the same town we were raised in. But as we see in the case of Jesus, leaving home is as much a spiritual event as it is a matter of geography. |
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Mass of Consecration of Virgin Mary Kelly Published: Saturday, July 6, 2024 I am told that there are about 5,000 consecrated virgins worldwide and I know that consecrated virgins work in professions ranging from teachers and attorneys to even that of firefighter. Mary Kelly is a teacher. |
