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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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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2024 Published: Friday, March 29, 2024 Anger implies that God owes us something that he has not delivered. Anger exalts our will over God’s will and certainly does not “hallow” his name. What did Job say after losing practically everything? “The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord!” |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2023 Published: Friday, April 7, 2023 His last seven words in this life have a lot to say to us who must now take up our crosses and follow him. |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2022 Published: Friday, April 15, 2022 On Good Friday we discover that the cross is salvific, including the crosses in our own lives, what cause is there for anger there? If Jesus, who is without sin, embraced the cross with sacrificial love, who are we to resent the adversities with which God sees fit to bless us, and indeed, save us? |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2021 Published: Friday, April 2, 2021 Even illness and death become a blessing when embraced with an attitude that hallows — sanctifies — God’s name. 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. |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2019 Published: Friday, April 19, 2019 Well all of us regard Jesus as a loved one and on Good Friday he was a prisoner about to be executed, so we have twice as much reason to listen to his last words and fulfill his deathbed wishes. His last seven words in this life have a lot to say to us who must now take up our crosses and follow him. |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2018 Published: Friday, March 30, 2018 (Jesus) proposed an alternate vision predicated on persuasion rather than coercion, service rather than the pursuit of power, humility rather than pride, trust rather than control. And he did not abandon this vision, this truth, no matter what they did to him. |
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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion 2017 Published: Friday, April 14, 2017 Jesus extends his arms to show us how much he loves us and that there is nothing we can do — not even terrible deeds — that would cause us to forfeit his love. |
