Bishop Taylor Homily Library

Homilías en Español

E.g., 03/28/2024
E.g., 03/28/2024

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.

Thursday, 17th Week, Ordinary Time, Cycle I
Published: Thursday, July 30, 2015
Jesus goes on to affirm that the challenges we face are only temporary, lasting only until the Kingdom of God is manifest in all of its fullness. 
Memorial of St. Martha
Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Sitting at the feet of the master was the traditional place where disciples sat to learn from the master.
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, July 26, 2015
Do you trust Jesus enough to hand over to him your five loaves and your two fishes, confident that he can use your gift of self to continue to provide for his people even today?
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Saturday, July 11, 2015
Since we have been given more and understand more, we will be held to a higher standard.
Silver Jubilee of Sister Josita López, OSB
Published: Saturday, July 11, 2015
Jesus has chosen you for love: "This is my commandment: Love one another as I love you." And how has he loved us? Completely, totally, to the death.
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, July 5, 2015
There is no reason to feel unsettled, uncertain or confused: We are in the hands of a provident God in whom we trust and to whom we pray.
2015 Priest Jubilarian Mass
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Jubilarians, I want to thank you, in the name of the Church for your faithfulness to Jesus all these years.
Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul 2015
Published: Monday, June 29, 2015
I could give you a long list of points of conflict between Church teaching and our increasingly secular society: pro-life issues, social justice issues, attacks in the media and now same-sex marriage. 
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Published: Sunday, June 21, 2015
"Laudato Si" asks very good questions about the world economy as currently structured in which market forces prevail in such a way as to make a few people and nations very rich and leave the vast majority of humanity in poverty.
Monday, 11th Week, Ordinary Time, Cycle I
Published: Monday, June 15, 2015
When Jesus said, "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," he gave us an assignment that is impossible, but his intention was to challenge us, not discourage us.
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2015
Published: Sunday, June 7, 2015
And this one-time bloody sacrifice of his Body on Calvary is repeated every time we celebrate the Eucharist, the unbloody sacrifice of his Body and Blood on our altar and received by us in Communion. 
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 2015
Published: Sunday, May 31, 2015
His nature is one, just as love is one, but this single divine nature subsists in three divine persons, who each invest all of their divine personhood in the others.
Diaconate Ordination of Mario Jacobo and Taryn Whittington
Published: Thursday, May 28, 2015
But united to him, you will bear fruit abundantly. Or more accurately, he will bear abundant fruit through you, through your ministry.
Diaconate Ordination of Dr. Joseph Chan
Published: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Satan may do his worst — he can cause terrible automobile accidents — and, as with Jesus, appear to do us great harm, but he cannot prevail if you are fully united to the Lord.
Pentecost Sunday 2015
Published: Sunday, May 24, 2015
Look around and you will see many unhappy, frustrated people who have exhausted themselves trying to make it through the challenges of life without God's power and light.

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