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"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

08 February 2013

Foolishness follows fear

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4th Week OT (F) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA Like any one of us who fall into sin, Herod's devolution ...
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07 February 2013

How must we be poor?

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4th Week of OT (Th) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Jesus spends a lot of his time with the disciples teaching th...
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06 February 2013

That no one may be deprived

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St. Paul Miki & Companions Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Our Lord leaves his hometown amazed by the lack of...
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Evangelical Catholicism

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Kathryn Lopez of NRO interviews George Weigel about his new book, Evangelical Catholicism . Here's one excerpt:  LOPEZ: Why do...
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05 February 2013

Coffee Cup Browsing

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A headline to give an OP friar a fright! (clutching chest/wiping brow) Wow.  Something goes right in P.C. infested Canada Good news! No...
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04 February 2013

Chained among the dead no longer

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4th Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Jesus exorcises a man possessed by demons, sending the unclean sp...
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03 February 2013

So God made a farmer. . .

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Not a community organizer, or an activist, or a politician, or a union worker. . .but a FARMER! ______________ Follow HancAquam or Su...

BXVI bustin' out The Truth

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BXVI's Sunday Angelus : “Let us ask the Lord to give each of us a spirit of courage and wisdom, so that in our words and actions, ...

Love's gotta hurt. . .sometimes

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NB.  The deacons are preaching this weekend, so here's a Roman homily from 2010 that I never got to preach.   4th Sunday OT Fr....
02 February 2013

Refiner's fire, fuller's lye

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Presentation of the Lord Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA With the baby Jesus—just 40 days old—Joseph and Mary tra...
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01 February 2013

Big Faith not required

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32rd Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary/St Dominic Church, NOLA I was ordained to the priesthood in 2005 a...
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31 January 2013

The Church is not a slave to fashion!

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The Holy Father's Household Theologian, Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP explains the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood and r...
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30 January 2013

A ghost in my library?

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Around 2.30 this morning I was awakened by a soft thump near my bed.  I "heard" the thump as books falling from a nearby shel...
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Dangerous and inefficient

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3rd Week OT (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Sitting in a boat at sea, Jesus teaches a crowd gathered on the s...
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28 January 2013

God, Being, and Mark

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What are we discussing in class tomorrow (Tues), you ask. . .? Well, we'll be delving into Anselm's Proslogion and the ontologic...
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