15 December 2023

Renovation: Kitchen & Chapel

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                                WE NEED CHOIR STALLS! St Albert the Great Priory in Irving was finished in 2002. It was built as a home for...

Get on with it

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2 nd Week of Advent (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving I'm tired. I've been tired for years. Not phys...

Are you a stubborn mule?

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St. Juan Diego Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving I've never pulled a plow. But I've seen it done. Properl...

How ought we to live?

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2 nd Sunday of Advent Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving John the Baptist makes his Advent appearance, looking li...
04 December 2023

HOLD! HOLD!!

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First Sunday of Advent Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Heavy English cavalry sweep downhill, lances dropped int...
10 November 2023

How do we know that Jesus is the Christ?

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St. Leo the Great Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Jesus says that Simon Peter knows that he – Jesus – is the Ch...

You are a temple

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St. John Lateran Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving We are flesh and blood temples of the Holy Spirit. Made for th...
28 October 2023

Apostolic foundation

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Ss. Simon and Jude Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Knowing what they know about Jesus' soon-to-be bloody en...
23 October 2023

Liberalism fails the Church

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10/23/23: I found this post from 2009. It is deeply relevant to our on-going crisis in the Church. In 1966, the French philosopher, Jacques ...
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20 October 2023

Doubt. . .but worship

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Ss. John and Issac Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving One of the strangest sentences in the Bible occurs in the...
15 October 2023

Go to the Wedding Feast!

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28 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Imagine: you go into the hospital with a terrible but curab...
23 September 2023

There is no Christ w/o the Cross

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Padre Pio Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Can you and I become Christs w/o the Cross? No. Emphatically, no. Wha...
18 September 2023

Prayer is dangerous

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24 th  Week OT (M) Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP St. Albert the Great Priory, Irving Prayer is a dangerous habit. Some might add that it is su...
29 August 2023

Folly Thy Name is Pride

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Passion of JTB Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great, Irving Like any one of us who fall into sin, Herod's devolution into ...

Don't make Jesus say, "Woe to you!"

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St. Augustine Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving It's never a bad idea to compare ourselves to the Pharisees. Spi...