Homilies for Cycle C

(Fr. Phil Bloom, Pastor Holy Family, Seattle)

First Sunday of Advent: Patience

Immaculate Conception: Under Her Motherly Care

Our Lady Of Guadalupe "Am I Not Your Mother?"

Second Advent: The Affection of Christ Jesus

Third Advent: To Be a Happier Priest

Fourth Advent: Only the Mother of Jesus?

Christmas: That Sacred Jest

Holy Family Sunday: The Key to Family

New Year's Day: Signs of Hope Among Teenagers

Epiphany: The Last Man

Baptism of Lord: Most Shocking

Second Sunday Ordinary Time: We're Eating Grass!

Third Sunday Ordinary Time: If the Lord Gives a Burden

Fourth Ordinary: We Are Doing It For Someone

Presentation of the Lord: The Fortieth Day of Christmas

Fifth Ordinary: Before the Grandeur of God

Sixth Ordinary: Not Taught But Caught

Seventh Ordinary: Two Ways to Avoid Judgment

Eighth Ordinary: Rotten and Good Fruit

Ash Wednesday: Exercise of Holy Desire

First Sunday of Lent: More Powerful than Satan

Second Lent: Chosen

Third Lent: What is His Name?

Fourth Lent: Confession of Sins and New Creation

Fifth Lent: Neither Do I Condemn You

Passion (Palm) Sunday: What Do We Have To Offer God?

Holy Thursday: The Passover Lamb Must Be Eaten

Good Friday: He Took Our Suffering to Himself

Easter Vigil: Born Again

Easter Sunday: I Have Been Baptized

Second Sunday Easter: A Drop in the Ocean

Third Easter: I Am Going Fishing

Fourth Easter: The Time of Great Distress

Fifth Easter: They Appointed Elders

Sixth Easter: The Father Will Love Him

Ascension Sunday: Separation of Church and State

Pentecost: With You Always

Trinity Sunday: Hope Does Not Disappoint

Corpus Christi Sunday: Our Daily Bread

Eleventh Ordinary Sunday: Rejoice, You Just

Twelfth Ordinary Take Up Your Cross Daily

Birth of John the Baptist: Fearfully, Wonderfully Made

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul: What Peter Meant to Paul

Thirteenth Ordinary: True Freedom

Fourteenth Ordinary: Stepping Out

Fifteenth Ordinary: The Good Pagan and The Good Samaritan

Sixteenth Ordinary: Being in the Lord's Presence

Seventeenth Ordinary: Why I Believe God Exists

Eighteenth Ordinary: Vanity of Vanities

Transfiguration: What Lies Beneath

Nineteenth Ordinary: Salvation and Damnation

Feast of Assumption: An Introduction to Mary

Twentieth Ordinary: Baptism of Anguish

Twenty-First Ordinary: Depart From Me

Twenty-Second Ordinary: The Beauty of Humility

Twenty-Third Ordinary: Reinvent Yourself

Exaltation of the Holy Cross: A Dangerous Book

Twenty-Fourth Ordinary: Never Give Up

Twenty-Fifth Ordinary: The Best of a Bad Situation

Twenty-Sixth Ordinary: Why Was the Rich Man Condemned?

Twenty-Seventh Sunday: The Greatest Power

Twenty-Eighth Sunday: Two Classes of Men

Twenty-Ninth Sunday: The Manly Task of Intercession

Thirtieth Sunday: The Cry of the Poor

All Saints: Loneliness and Lasting Communion

All Souls: Sister Death

Thirty-First Sunday: A Little Man With a Lot to Teach Us

Dedication of Lateran Basilica: I Saw Water

Thirty-Second Sunday: Put God First

Thirty-Third Sunday: Night and Day We Worked

Thanksgiving Homily: The Power of Gratitude

Christ the King Sunday: Life & Death of a Thief

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