Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"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

09 March 2024

Raining on the righteous and the unrighteous

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3rd Week of Lent (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving A Pharisee and a tax collector go to the temple to pray....

06 March 2024

Paid in full

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3 rd Week of Lent (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving When you order a book from Amazon, it arrives in a packa...

28 February 2024

Fakin' it ain't makin' it

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2 nd Week of Lent (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving One day during lunch at Notre Dame Seminary I was passin...

26 February 2024

Why do we love God?

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2nd Sunday of Lent Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving God tells Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham goes up the ...

24 February 2024

God loves those who hate us

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1st Week of Lent (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving That we may be children of our heavenly Father, we must love...

21 February 2024

The only sign we need

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1 st Week of Lent (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Jesus seems irritated. Maybe “frustrated” is a better wo...

04 February 2024

Things fall apart

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5 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving We think of “healing” as returning a sick or broken body back t...

17 January 2024

Don't be a tool

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St. Anthony, Abbot Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Our translation says that the Pharisees “watch Jesus closely.”...

28 December 2023

Renovation Update

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That wall behind the crucifix was supposed to be finished on Dec 23rd. Didn't happen. But they are almost done. The acoustics in the ch...

25 December 2023

Becoming the Christ Child

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Nativity of the Lord (Day) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving On “t he Twenty-fifth Day of December...in the 149th Ol...

19 December 2023

Bro, take the win!

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3rd Week of Advent (T) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Zechariah learns a hard but well-deserved lesson in praye...

17 December 2023

We are him whom we announce

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3 rd Sunday of Advent Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving When asked “who are you?” John confesses who he isn...

15 December 2023