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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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Tuesday, Second Week of Lent, Cycle I Published: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Taken out of context, these titles do seem to contradict what Jesus says in today's Gospel. But put them in their proper context and the problem goes away. |
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Second Sunday of Lent, Year B Published: Sunday, March 1, 2015 Even more so than Abraham, it was precisely in putting all his hope and trust in his heavenly Father that Jesus gives God the glory. |
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Ash Wednesday 2015 Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Even those whom the world judges most successful discover eventually that success without significance is empty. |
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Published: Sunday, February 15, 2015 He loved them and affirmed the human dignity even of those who had hateful attitudes and behaviors, and even when he already knew they wouldn't respond. |
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Published: Sunday, February 8, 2015 Slavery is an experience of powerlessness and oppression. Leadership is the exercise of power and freedom. Slavery is darkness, leadership is light. |
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Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal 2015 Published: Saturday, February 7, 2015 Our finances are much tighter than in the past, in part because so many young men have opened their hearts to welcome Jesus' call to serve you as your future priests. |
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Published: Sunday, February 1, 2015 Others are enslaved to compulsions and habits of sin that have taken possession of them almost as if they were possessed by a demon. |
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Arkansas Catholic Men’s Conference 2015 Published: Saturday, January 31, 2015 Most of the disciples saved that day from drowning will one day die a martyr’s death, perish in a different kind of storm but a storm nonetheless. |
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Mass for Life 2015 Published: Sunday, January 18, 2015 Hebrew names have a literal meaning and Samuel can mean "God listens" or "He listens to God.” |
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Baptism of the Lord, Year B, 2015 Published: Saturday, January 10, 2015 As Dr. King says, "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." |
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Religious Liberty Address Published: Saturday, January 10, 2015 We Catholics have learned what is at stake when religious liberty is not protected. |
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Epiphany of the Lord 2015 Published: Sunday, January 4, 2015 Then they present him gifts symbolic of who their Savior is and what he has come to do: gold for a king, frankincense to worship him as God, and myrrh for his burial following his sacrificial death for our salvation. |
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Saturday, Christmas Weekday, Cycle I Published: Saturday, January 3, 2015 The Lord can use you to make a difference as another Christ for today's world, as another "Lamb of God" who offers himself in loving sacrifice because in our specific case, that is what faithfulness to God requires. |
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Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 2015 Published: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 It is a time for reflecting on the past and the present, and then making resolutions for the future. Reflecting on the past involves, of necessity, a certain amount of ambiguity tolerance, which gives us needed perspective for dealing with problems in the present. Looking to the future is an exercise in hope. |
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Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Published: Sunday, December 28, 2014 They were now not just husband and wife, but also foster-father and mother, and this transition produced in them virtues that we see throughout the story of Jesus' infancy and childhood. |
