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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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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. |
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13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, June 30, 2024 What God expects of you today is essentially the same as it has always been: that you preach conversion, that you proclaim the truth with courage, that you banish evil with prayer, that you cure the sick with healing love, which, in fact, are things that really only God can do, but as we see in the Scriptures, God can and wants to do them through us. |
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Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 2024 Published: Monday, June 24, 2024 Today we celebrate John the Baptist's dedication and courage in facing the challenges of his day, and we celebrate — and thank God — for Sisters Rosalie and Madeline who have dedicated their entire lives to preparing the way of the Lord amid all the challenges that we face today. |
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Tuesday, 11th Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle 2, 2024 Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 You and I rub shoulders every day with people who we don't like and maybe even people who we fear might pose some sort of a threat to us or the well-being of our families. Jesus challenges us to love these aggravating people as God loves them, meaning 100 percent. |
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Monday, 10th Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle 2, 2024 Published: Monday, June 10, 2024 We sin by choosing attitudes that lead us up the ladder, away from joy, away from God, away from the holiness that we long for. In the Beatitudes Jesus points us down the ladder that leads to God and thus to genuine happiness. |
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10th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, June 9, 2024 We have become so used to being manipulated by fake news and outrageous distortions that we now have a hard time recognizing the truth when we hear it, especially when that truth is difficult and requires a change in our behavior and attitudes. |
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Memorial of St. Boniface, bishop, martyr and 16th Episcopal Anniversary Published: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 I don’t know of any other historically, English-speaking diocese that has such a high percentage of young priests able to minister in Spanish. We now have weekend Mass in Spanish in 52 of our 130 churches, and fully one-third of our people at Mass on a given weekend are attending Mass in Spanish. St. Bonface the missionary would be proud, as am I. |
