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Cardinal Rigali’s Preaching Podcast
Many wonderful things are happening here in the Diocese of Knoxville, and have been happening ever since our current shepherd, Bishop Richard Stika, arrived in the Diocese of Knoxville in March of...
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Keep the Mass in Christmas
Today is the Vigil of the Nativity of the Lord, popularly known as Christmas Eve. Tonight when those of us who do so celebrate Vespers, or Evening Prayer, the Church says that the solemnity of...
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Homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Hebrews 12:1-4 Luke 12:49-53 People didn’t care very much for what the Prophet Jeremiah had to say. He was telling people that unless they repented, Jerusalem was going to...
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Homily For the Memorial of St. Peter Claver, SJ, priest
Epistle: I Cor. 9:16-19, 22B-27 Gospel: Luke 6:39-42 We wear white today because it is the feast of a great and holy Jesuit priest, St. Peter Claver. Father Claver came to the Americas as a Jesuit...
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Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent: In Spirit and In Truth
Homily Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-42 It is noteworthy that the woman at the well in today’s Gospel was there drawing water at around Noon, the Scripture tells us. Not only are we...
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1 Kings 19:9A, 11-13A Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33 The prophet Elijah begins our readings today by going to Mount Horeb, also called Mount Sinai, and one of the things that we don’t see in that...
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Isaiah 62:1-5 Acts 13:16-17, 22-25 Matthew 1:18-25 Tonight’s readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas give us a small glimpse into the dilemma in which St. Joseph almost certainly found himself....
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Homily for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-15 Tonight we begin the commemoration of the central events of our faith. The very heart of everything we believe as Catholics, as followers of...
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Micah 5:1-4A Hebrews 10:5-10 Luke 1:39-45 In the readings from Sacred Scripture throughout the season of Advent we hear much about the twofold character of this holy season. We begin Advent...
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Exodus 12:1-8 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-15 Many people will say that Pentecost is “the Birthday of the Church,” and there is, indeed, a good argument for that moniker as it relates to that...
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