Browsing the September 2024 archive of Fr. Arturo Homilies

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time-September 22, 2024

Posted by Carol Johnson on 9/23/24

Father Bob Kus is one of six priests who were ordained along with me. Father Bob was in his fifties when he was ordained and has now been retired for six years but he did not really stop working. Instead, he moved to a remote village in Honduras where ... Read More »

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time-September 15, 2024

Posted by Carol Johnson on 9/16/24

I once heard a professor of Shakespeare say that the events in the middle of Shakespeare’s plays were the key to understanding their ending. I remember that professor’s comment each time I read this part of the Gospel of Mark. Saint Mark used the same brilliant technique in the ... Read More »

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time-September 8, 2024

Posted by Carol Johnson on 9/09/24

In today's gospel reading, Saint Mark tells us about an excursion, the second one, that the Lord made through the region of the Ten Cities. This region was non-Jewish territory. The fact that the Lord went on excursions outside of Israel indicated that the blessings of the kingdom of ... Read More »

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time-September 1, 2024

Posted by Carol Johnson on 9/01/24

This is one of the strangest things I have personally encountered in the celebration of the sacraments. At the time, I was the associate priest at a large parish. One day, a baptism was scheduled at the same time as Mass, so I performed the baptism in a hall ... Read More »