Category: Mary
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Feast of the Visitation (Transferred), Daily Mass Message, 1 June, 2020, Luke 1:39-57
If you are too full of your own self-assurance in this moment when inequality and injustice cries to be heard, then you are incapable of hearing the cry of Mary’s song and, be assured, God will send you away terrifyingly empty.
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Good Friday Sermon : April 14, 2017 : Mary
What child is this, who, laid to rest, On Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? Who could’ve known when we sang that song so early on? Who could’ve known on that dark night in the stable, that smelly grotto crowded with shepherds, magicians and angels? I…
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Being Mary, treasure these memories in your heart, you’ll need them later.
Being Mary, treasure these memories in your heart, you’ll need them later. The Rev. Matthew Cowden, Saint Michael & All Angels, South Bend 4 PM pageant service Christmas Eve December 24, 2016 (Homily just after the children and youth pageant.) I am so grateful to our pageant leaders, organizers and readers, to our wise…