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Pray and Reflect

These homilies and reflections by Father Silas explore the Readings of the Sunday Mass and the times and sesons of the Christian life

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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (2025)

God has hidden the seed of divine life in our experiences of suffering

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The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)

Humility is that virtue that allows us to understand who and what we are as God’s children

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The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)

The way we live proclaims to the world in which we live is that salvation is for all, and we are evidence of this

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The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

What are you passionate about? What stirs up the fire within you?

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The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)

Obedience. Faith. Vigilance.

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The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)

God is ready and waiting to open the door when we knock, to give us what we ask, to reveal himself when we seek

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The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2025)

This story is a lesson in discipleship which invites us to reflect on how we recognize and welcome Jesus as he comes to us today

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The Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time (2025)

This Sunday’s Gospel reminds us that our commitment to live as disciples of Jesus asks that we imitate his selfless service

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The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle C)

Today, Jesus is reminding us that “the harvest is great but the laborers are few.”

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The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (2025)

In celebrating this Solemnity, we honor two people who gave all that they were in service of the Gospel and the Church.

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (2025)

Today’s celebration of Trinity Sunday calls each of us to continue to move beyond my “self” and what I claim to be “mine.”

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Pentecost (2025)

This celebration reminds us the Pentecost of the first Christians was a witnessing of the power of the Spirit for the future

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The Ascension of the Lord (2025)

The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord reminds us that Jesus disappeared from the disciples’ physical sight so that he might become more present to the eyes of their hearts

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter (2025)

Rather than closing ranks and opting for exclusivity, the Church’s first leaders imagined a new way forward and enlisted others to help them in their mission

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The Fifth Sunday of Easter (2025)

We are to love others as Jesus has loved us, in dynamic and life-giving ways

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The Fourth Sunday of Easter (2025)

We can only say we truly know this Good Shepherd if we are willing to listen to his voice and follow his commands

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The Second Sunday of Easter (2025)

It was in and through that community that Thomas finally encountered the Risen Christ

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Easter Sunday 2025

Living Easter means living life in the sure knowledge that everything has changed

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Palm Sunday (2025)

Holy Week shows us what love looks like

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The Fourth Sunday of Lent (2025)

The story of the Prodigal Son reminds us that God is ever-patient and always willing to welcome us home, regardless of what we might have done or of how far we have strayed.