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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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Divine Mercy Sunday 2015 Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Pope Francis will open the holy year "Door of Mercy" at St. Peter's in Rome, through which he reminds us, "anyone who enters will experience the love of God who consoles, pardons and instills hope." |
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Easter Vigil 2015 Published: Saturday, April 4, 2015 Through baptism Jesus freed us from the power of sin and death and gave us a share in his Easter victory. |
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Good Friday Passion of the Lord 2015 Published: Friday, April 3, 2015 The tomb in which we bury him today will soon become the womb from which you and I will be reborn in baptism to share the fruits of Jesus' Easter victory. |
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Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper 2015 Published: Thursday, April 2, 2015 But our joy today is tempered by the sober realization that our freedom is costly — bought with blood and not easy to preserve. |
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Chrism Mass 2015 Published: Monday, March 30, 2015 I remind myself of this whenever faithfulness to the Lord requires me to do things that are difficult or unpleasant: He's the only one I have to please. |
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Palm Sunday 2015 Published: Sunday, March 29, 2015 The 22nd Psalm may begin with words of despair but ends with a declaration of faith and hope. |
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Diaconate Ordination of Stephen Gadberry Published: Friday, March 27, 2015 If we trust in Jesus, he who is our Good Shepherd will lead us to the green pastures we long for and to the table the he has prepared for us in the land of the living. |
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Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year B Published: Sunday, March 22, 2015 Satan may do his worst and, as with Jesus, appear to do us great harm, but he cannot prevail if you are fully united to the Lord. |
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Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B Published: Sunday, March 15, 2015 Notice that when Jesus says that the Son of God is light for the world, he's talking about judging the world, not just making things bright and sunny. |
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Third Sunday of Lent, Year B Published: Sunday, March 8, 2015 What is significant about each of these signs is their capacity to reveal the identity of Jesus and the glory of God revealed in him. |
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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. |
