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Francis Thompson calls God, "The Hound of Heaven." It's a hunting metaphor, that God comes hounding after you before the thought ever dawns. God seeks after lost sheep, lost coins, lost sons. It begins with God, always the pursuer. 

I have Mass on Sunday, June 14th at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am. The Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/

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Today, June 11, as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Bishops will consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

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“Your life is so much stronger than ours that it dominates us, absorbs us, and assimilates us to itself…. Although I might have imagined that it was I who held the consecrated Bread and gave myself its nourishment, I now see with blinding clarity that it is the Bread that takes hold of me and draws me to itself. (Tielhard de Chardin, "The Priest, Writings in Time of War.")

I have Mass on Sunday, June 7th, at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am; The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/isidore-online/

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Homily for June 5, 2026 at Holy Name, Birmingham.

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I had morning Mass at Holy Name in Birmingham https://youtu.be/HqEirLN3DDI?si=0msAyBfaCbjUBhOQ

"I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God." Reflection on 2 Timothy 1:6, Wednesday June 3, 2026

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Moses implores God: “Although this is a stiff-necked people if now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go with us.” “Let the Lord go with us.” We discover God along the way. We never see God coming, but afterward, in reflecting on our common experience, we recognize the hand of God that was guiding us all along.

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The Spirit is given for this benefit: whenever you or I forgive a brother or sister from the heart, we are participating in Christ’s ministry of forgiveness, exercising the priestly ministry of every baptized Christian.

I have Mass on Sunday, May 24th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am

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The Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, captures this beautifully in these words from his poem, “As Kingfishers catch fire.”

“Christ plays in ten thousand places,
 Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
 To the Father through the features of men's faces.”

I have Mass on Sunday, May 17th at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am

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Instead of talking about Jesus from the outside, in what we have heard and seen, Jesus is inviting us to meet him in a new way. What Jesus was and said is not past, but present, and everything speaks to us from deep within. Jesus is talking about love taking shape within our lives.

I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, May 10th at 7:30/9:30 am

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Remember the painting that Francis introduced to the church, Our Lady, Untier of Knots? She is not resolving the problem; the way you untie knots is to loosen them. And that’s what Pope Francis was doing. He was untying knots. He was dispelling the fears that we have, especially of people who are different than us.

I have Mass on Sunday, May 3rd 

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at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm

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