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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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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Saturday, August 30, 2025 "...there should be no applause after any liturgical song or instrumental piece, no matter how beautifully done." |
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Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary 2025 Published: Friday, August 15, 2025 Today we have the Assumption of Mary, the first person to share fully in Jesus’ victory. One day, the rest of us who are faithful will also rise to share in his victory with her forever in heaven. |
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75th anniversary of Carmelite Monastery 2025 Published: Sunday, August 3, 2025 The Bible says those who put their trust in the things of this world have been deceived by a mirage that promises what it cannot deliver. |
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, August 3, 2025 There is an old proverb that said that "money is like sea-water, the more a person drinks, the thirstier he becomes." |
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Friday, July 18, 2025 "This is also true in our relations with each other: people often use religious language for non-religious purposes." |
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Jubilee Mass at St. Scholastica Monastery 2025 Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 "...is the love with which you do your work, especially when it involves serving others." |
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Jubilarian Mass at Holy Angels Convent 2025 Published: Friday, July 11, 2025 Every commitment binds a person to a certain way of life, and thereby excludes certain other ways of life. |
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Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles 2025 Published: Saturday, June 28, 2025 We Catholics take the pope's "power of the keys" so seriously that we represent it on the Vatican flag. |
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Catholic Charities Summer Institute Mass 2025 Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 "...we do not have the right to prevent people from exercising their God-given right to migrate when circumstances so require." |
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2025 Published: Sunday, June 22, 2025 We think of blood as just one very important component in a living body, but to the biblical mentality, the blood was itself alive and was what gave life to the body. |
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Wednesday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, June 22, 2025 Jesus turns every new challenge into an opportunity to make our pearl more beautiful. |
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 2025 Published: Saturday, June 14, 2025 In Mass, when we pray to “Our Lord,” who are we talking to? To the God the Father or to Jesus? |
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Priesthood Ordination of Deacon Joel Brackett Published: Saturday, May 31, 2025 So as you begin your priestly ministry, I urge you to revere the people you serve. Indeed, you will serve them best by empowering people to contribute their gifts, placing yourself at their service — not the other way around. The Church in Arkansas needs priests who lead by example, who revere the spiritual and ministerial gifts of those Jesus sends us to serve. |
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Deacon Ordination of Christopher Elser Published: Saturday, May 24, 2025 I thank you for the reminder you give the rest of us to continue to give eloquent witness to all that God must be loved above all else and that it is the Lord whom we serve when we serve others. |
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Deacon Ordination of Joseph Nguyen and Tuan Do Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 It is striking that in the New Testament when the Church established the order of deacons, we didn’t call those ordained for this service "douloi" ("slaves") but rather "diakonoi" ("servants"), hence deacons, because the obedience you promise today is not just the mere compliance of a slave, it is the self-sacrificing gift of yourself to the Lord. |
