Two listeners noted that my original recording was truncated. Here, I believe, is the complete recording.

Midnight in Auburn: my fourth of five Christmas Eucharists.

Earlier I had posted an explanation of my absence on the Second and Third Sundays of Advent -- but that recording was blank, because I had not turned the microphone on. I'm back with a homily recorded at the early Mass at Auburn.

The late Mass in Auburn.

This was the early Sunday Mass, held at the St. Benedict Parish Center because the church interior is being painted.

I am still not used to turning on my recorder AFTER I have proclaimed the Gospel. November 13 I was one sentence into the homily (at my last Mass) and I said to myself, "No, I'm not going to stop now."

I goofed and recorded the Gospel passage. Is this illegal, or am I just PREMATURELY RIGHT?

I note some extraneous noise; I think the mic must have been rubbing against fabric. On "Priesthood Sunday," there are some pertinent readings! Fr. Kevin recalls his interview for the seminary. Recorded in Auburn, Sunday morning.

"You can't have everything you want." See whether this glum pronouncement leads to anything good. Recorded Sunday in Auburn.

The copyright cops have spoken! Until further notice (because the USCCB is still looking at the phenomenon of podcasting), I am not to podcast the proclamation of the Scriptures from the New American Bible. So we go straight to the homily. As Americans, we are wired to take the incident of Caesar's coin and project onto it all of our anxieties about the delicate balance of church-state relations. This homily was delivered Sunday morning in Auburn.