06 October 2022

Giving, getting, receiving

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27 th Week OT (Th) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving To understand what Jesus is teaching us about prayer and gi...
03 October 2022

Love cannot be outsourced

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27 th Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Christian charity – agape – cannot be outsourced to an agen...
25 September 2022

What will persuade you?

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26 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Getting to The Point of a parable can be tricky if we give too m...
24 September 2022

Amazed but not comprehending

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25 th Week OT (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving So, everyone is amazed. But no one understands. Just yesterd...
20 September 2022

Broken elevator, gimpy knees, whiney novices

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HELP! The Priory elevator is broken. The motherboard melted and damaged most of the parts near it. Parts will cost approx. $11,000 and labor...

Denying, carrying, suffering well

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NB. For me, writing is thinking. . .meaning, I don't know exactly what I think until I start writing. This homily is an example of what ...
17 September 2022

Choose the Rock

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St. Robert Bellarmine Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving My father lives in a house I helped to build in 1978. I remem...
04 September 2022

Love God first

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23 rd Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving I'm a good Southern Boy. The thought of hating my mama mak...
30 August 2022

Putting on the Mind of Christ

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22 nd Week OT (T) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving What is it “to have the mind of Christ”? Think of this way: ...
21 August 2022

Squeezing through the Narrow Gate

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21 st Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Jesus says the entrance to heaven is a Narrow Gate. This make...
20 August 2022

Smacking the prideful

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St. Bernard Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Being humble ain't easy. It requires several intellectual and ...
10 August 2022

Falling, dying, showing mercy

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St. Lawrence Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great Priory, Irving How do we fall to the ground and die and produce good fruit a...
05 August 2022

Denying and following

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St. Mary Major Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Yesterday, Peter thoroughly embarrasses himself. He rebukes Christ ...
03 August 2022

Remember her

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18 th Week OT (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Not a good week for the disciples. They've whined about ha...
01 August 2022

Fish & the Eucharist

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St. Alphonsus Liguori Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great Priory, Irving Our Lord bears witness to the power of giving God than...