Recent Homilies
Confirmation Ceremony at Our Lady, Star of the Sea
- Sept. 30, 2012
- Abbot James
Since all of you live near the water down here at Solomons, you no doubt know the potential force of water better than a landlubber like me who lives farther inland. Although this area will normally not be in the direct path of a hurricane,...
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Close of Community Retreat
- August 18, 2012
- Abbot James
Of the many memorable things Fr. John said during our community retreat that ends this morning, I expect we all recall his mention of once attending a wedding in a church of another denomination and finding in that church only two stained glass windows...
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Nineteenth Sunday of the Year
- August 12, 2012
- Fr. Peter
If we stop where today's first reading ended, "He got up, ate and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, in Horeb," we do not know what happens next. However, if you read further...
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Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
- July 8, 2012
- Fr. Hilary
“This wooden O”: I learned that phrase while watching the movie of Shakespeare’s play Henry V. in 1944. The film begins with a reproduction of the Globe theatre as the play is beginning there...
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Corpus Christi
- June 10, 2012
- Abbot James
Of all the saints who have written eloquently about Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist, perhaps none did so more frequently or with greater fervor than St. Teresa of Avila...
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Sunday of Pentecost
- May 27, 2012
- Abbot James
I’ll begin this homily with a kind of mathematical question: Our first reading from the second chapter of the Acts of Apostles begins with the words, “When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.” So, I ask, how many persons did the writer, St. Luke, intend to include in this word “all”?
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