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Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
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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Third Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Sunday, December 15, 2024 "Deliver us, Lord, from every evil and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ." So, what are you afraid of? It can't be anything greater than the power that God gives us to confront our fears and overcome them! |
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Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 When we were children, our parents not only tied our shoes, they also sought to bind us to particular values, a particular faith, particular relationships — for which I, for one, am eternally grateful. But there does come a time when we have to learn to tie our own shoes, to make those values our own, to take personal ownership for our relationship with the Lord. |
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Second Sunday of Advent, Year C, 2024 Published: Sunday, December 8, 2024 Jesus is at the door and is knocking. Listen to his voice, grab that knob and open the door. Receive him into your heart now, and thus also on Christmas and for always, until his second coming on the last day. |
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2024 Published: Saturday, December 7, 2024 And all of the stories of the roses and the miraculous image on his tilma remind us that the conversion of Mexico that was made possible not only because of Mary's intervention, but also because of Juan Diego's willingness to do what she asked. |
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Thanksgiving 2024 Published: Monday, November 25, 2024 We need to open our eyes and see, open our hearts and feel, open our lips and say with Jesus, "Father, I thank you." The bottom line, that's what Thanksgiving is all about. |
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Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 2024 Published: Sunday, November 24, 2024 Earthly nations have borders, but the Kingdom of God has no limits, be they territorial, linguistic or racial, no boundaries at all. And unlike politics in most countries, everything in the Kingdom of God is true, sincere and just. No “alternate truths” that are really lies, none of the disinformation and disregard for the truth that has so corrupted our public discourse. |
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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, November 17, 2024 If you entrust your troubles to Jesus, take his hand and place your confidence in him, Jesus will lead you out of darkness into the light. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, even if the exit still has not yet quite come into view. |
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Solemnity of All Saints 2024 Published: Friday, November 1, 2024 The message for us is that every one of us has an important role in God's plan and that God often calls people when they are still teenagers. I myself was in 11th grade when I began to feel the Lord’s call in my life more intensely. |
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, October 27, 2024 In today's Gospel Jesus restores sight to a man named Bartimaeus. Notice that this healing was spiritual as well as physical because physical disabilities have spiritual consequences. |
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Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Memorial Mass 2024 Published: Saturday, October 19, 2024 We are to love others as Jesus loves them, meaning we are to give our lives for them just as Jesus has given his life for us. It's only when we begin to love like Jesus loves that we truly start to live the beatitudes, because the inner content of the beatitudes is sacrificial love — death to self for the benefit of others. |
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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Sunday, October 13, 2024 If you love your money more than you love your God, well, your priorities are not in order, so if you’re not giving God the 10 percent minimum that is rightfully his, you may not be able to pass through the eye of that needle either. |
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Consecration of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Lincoln 2024 Published: Thursday, October 10, 2024 Through these outward signs, our ritual of dedication expresses an inner reality: that this is a house of God, set apart for worship, in which Jesus teaches us with his divine word and feeds us with his body and blood, and from which he then sends us forth to bring the word of God and the sacraments of eternal life to others. |
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2024 Respect Life Mass Published: Sunday, October 6, 2024 This "Gospel of Life" that we proclaim places the sacredness of the human person at the center of our teaching and thus touches every aspect of life — in the womb, at the end of life and every stage in between (EV 37). |
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024 Published: Saturday, October 5, 2024 The Gospel is preached most effectively, not by special programs we sponsor, but rather one on one, by the catching force of people living their faith with childlike simplicity often within a family, maybe only gradually or a workplace or neighborhood. |
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2024 School of Spiritual Direction Retreat Mass Published: Sunday, September 29, 2024 What good does it do to say we believe in Jesus if we do not also do what he says? Sure, it’s far better to have the sacraments and correct theology, but just being Catholic will not, of itself, automatically keep you out of hell. After all, Hitler was raised Catholic. |
