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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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Easter Vigil 2020 Published: Saturday, April 11, 2020 Do we truly believe that Jesus rose from the dead and — more fundamentally — that by placing our faith, our trust in him, by doing things his way, we can have a share in his victory? Even when it means “passing through the valley of the shadow of death” ourselves? |
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Good Friday 2020 Published: Friday, April 10, 2020 He is the master; we are servants whose only role and source of greatest blessing is to do God’s will as best we know it. That is why when people ask me about future plans, I frequently add the phrase “God willing,” which is a small reminder that whatever God wills — even difficult things — comes first. |
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Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper 2020 Published: Thursday, April 9, 2020 And yet, even knowing how weak and unreliable they were, Jesus washed their feet. And then through them he tells us, who are also weak and unreliable, that we should serve others with just that much humility. |
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Palm Sunday 2020 Published: Sunday, April 5, 2020 So today, we lift up to the Lord ourselves and all of those people who are living in fear throughout the world, especially those who are suffering and dying unaccompanied. Jesus at least was accompanied by John, his mother and a few women … and even so, he felt forsaken. You and I are not forsaken. Our Savior is with us and so we place our trust in him. |
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Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A Published: Sunday, March 29, 2020 We are learning to live with uncertainty, and we are learning to trust in God regarding our future. And above all, we realize far more intensely than ever before what a gift it is to be able to gather for worship and receive the Lord in the Eucharist. |
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Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A Published: Sunday, March 22, 2020 The current "Great Fast" forced on us by COVID-19 is an invitation for us to recognize that God still remains present to us and still offers his grace to us in other ways during this time when we cannot receive him in the Eucharist. |
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Ash Wednesday 2020 Published: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Let us pray, fast and give alms in secret, and let us do what we can to call our society to repentance of all the evils that afflict us as a nation. |
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Published: Sunday, February 16, 2020 By forbidding us to take human life, God intends that we live in harmony with each other and treat each other with respect, and Jesus holds us to this higher standard. |
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Marriage Anniversary Mass on Valentine's Day Published: Friday, February 14, 2020 But it was agape, the love of self-sacrificing commitment, that kept you together once the honeymoon was over and caused your love to bear fruit that has lasted all of these many years: "in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health all the days of your life." |
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Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal 2020 Published: Sunday, February 2, 2020 The outreach of CASA is immense across our diocese, and I would like to highlight some of the ways your support is sharing the love of Christ with each other and our neighbors. |
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2020 Arkansas Catholic Men's Conference Published: Saturday, February 1, 2020 But like I said, most of what I know about Christian manhood I learned from my father and grandfathers, and much of this has been reinforced over and over again by experiences I have had in almost 40 years of priestly ministry. I’ve seen families prosper because their men resembled the men in my own life. And I have seen families struggle because their men didn’t. |
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Baptism of the Lord 2020 Published: Saturday, January 11, 2020 Inspired by Jesus, our Lord, and people like Dr. King who gave their lives for that kingdom, Jesus seeks first of all to convert our hearts and then to send us forth today as agents of change today. As missionary disciples who proclaim the Kingdom of God and work to bring it to fulfillment! |
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Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph 2019 Published: Sunday, December 29, 2019 My own family resembled the holy family in that my parents provided us a family that lived by faith and in which each of us was supported in carrying out the mission for which we were born — some as married people in secular professions, me as priest and now bishop, all still active in the Catholic faith. |
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Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) 2019 Published: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 People who judged Jesus to be a threat to their authority and status — their power and prestige — did their worst to the baby born today and so the darkness seemed to have extinguished the light completely, but three days later we saw once and for all that the darkness is unable to overcome the light, the true light which enlightens everyone, the light whose coming into the world we celebrate today. |
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Third Sunday of Advent, Year A Published: Sunday, December 15, 2019 If some of you parents look back over the sacrifices you have made and begin to feel uncertain about all you have done because you aren’t yet seeing the results you had hoped for in the lives of your children, you would be wise to learn from John the Baptist. |
