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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

05 August 2024

To the point of excess

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18 th Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP Pre-novitiate Retreat, GP, TX You can't start a project by counting what you don'...
02 August 2024

Lying is never pastoral

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St. Alphonsus Liguori Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Wheat and weeds. Sheep and goats. Good fish, bad fish. P...
31 July 2024

Like produces like

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St. Peter Chrysologus Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Squirrels never give birth to dolphins. Dolphins never g...
28 July 2024

Take and eat

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17 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving We don't have to do a close reading of this Gospel miracle...

Don't be too quick to pull the weeds

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16 th Week OT (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving I was once a weed in the wheat field of the Church. As a nov...

Seeing ain't Seeing

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Ss. Joachim and Anne Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving What are the necessary conditions for the possibility of si...
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25 July 2024

Can you drink the chalice?

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Feast of St. James Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Mama Zebedee is on a mission! She's out to secure positions ...
21 July 2024

You are a shepherd

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16 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving What do sheep without a shepherd look like? I mean, if you see...
20 July 2024

Run away! Run away!

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15 th Week OT (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving When confronted by the Pharisees, Jesus runs away. Instead o...
27 June 2024

Are you an evildoer?

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12 th Week OT (Th) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Lord, did I not go to Mass everyday? Did I not send my kids...
26 June 2024

Taste the pie

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12 th Week OT (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving My maternal grandmother, Milly, made the best chocolate pie ...
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25 June 2024

Pretty but poisonous

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12 th Week OT (T) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving It doesn't really matter what religion you follow as lon...
17 June 2024

On not stabbing strangers

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11 th Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Jesus is doing one of the thing he does best – teaching us h...
15 June 2024

Legal ain't moral

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St. Anthony of Padua Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving Slavery was legal in the US for decades. Abortion is still...

Are we crazy?

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10 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell OP St. Albert the Great, Irving When I told my parents that I was changing my major from busines...
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