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We don't "see" the light itself; we see things because of the light. In the light of Christ, we are being given a glimpse of the very being of God’s own self. We are made in God’s image, so our lives can reflect the way God thinks and loves.

I have Mass on Sunday, November 23 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am

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Jesus, and the crowd around him, are standing in front of the Temple, but they are not seeing the same thing. The crowd are marveling at the costly stones, while Jesus sees that not one stone will be left upon another stone.

This weekend at all the Masses, Archbishop Weisenburger is announcing the start of a multi-year reorganization process in the Archdiocese of Detroit. 

I have Mass on Sunday, November 16 at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am. live stream link:  https://vimeo.com/1135452720?fl=pl&fe=vl

I have Mass at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm.

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We are called and sent from within these walls, like a river that flows out into the desert, allowing God's Spirit to flow through us, not to block it, but to let it flow through us, so that all who hunger and thirst for God may be satisfied. And all those who are wounded may find their way back home.

I have Mass on Saturday, November 8 at Holy Name Church in Birmingham @ 4 pm.

I have Mass on Sunday, November 9 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am

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There is a local cemetery in Lake Orion, right around the corner from the parish where I had been pastor for 31 years. I buried a lot of people in that cemetery, so I know a lot of the neighbors. We bought graves there for our whole family. When people found out that a priest was going to buried in the cemetery, all the graves around us sold.

I have Mass on Sunday, November 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

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Luke tells a familiar story in chapter 19 about a wealthy tax collector who kept his distance. “Zacchaeus kept trying to see who Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way.”

I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, October 26 @ 9:30/11:30 am.

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“There are moments in the history of humanity,” Tomáš Halík writes, “as well as in the history of the church and in our own lives, when we are confronted more than at other times with God’s hiddenness, God’s silence.”

I have Mass on Sunday, October 19 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed.

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The lone Samaritan has a dilemma: to which temple should he report? Jesus surely means the Jerusalem Temple, but as a Samaritan he recognizes Mount Gerizim as the true place to worship God, and his priests are, of course, the Samaritan priests at Gerizim.

I have Mass on Sunday, October 12 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. 

The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamedhttps://stisidore.church/video_post/ 

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I am preaching this homily on our pilgrimage in Poland. We visited Auschwitz/Brirkenau camp this morning; we are celebrating Mass in Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, where Karol Wojtyra (St. John Paul II) came on pilgrimage as a boy.

When I visited Krakow in 2001, we toured the Wawel Cathedral. There's a great bell in the tower, like Big Ben in London. It weighs 11 tons and it takes 12 people to ring it. This bell is named Zygmunt, and it has been rung for every major event in Poland since it was cast in 1520.

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I think the key to this parable is the gate. The rich man is on one side; Lazarus is on the other. In the story, the gate never opens. In fact, its role as a barrier eventually translates into an uncrossable chasm in eternity.

I am away this weekend.

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The steward realizes that generosity is the best investment. He gets himself out of a hole by building social capital. It is irrelevant, apparently, that he gives away what does not belong to him.

I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, September 21 @ 7:30/9:30 am

The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

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