Second Sunday of Easter B ~ "A Horse Named Buddy" Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
I have a horse named Buddy. He is gentle and eager to please. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence. He lets other...
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Mar 22, 20213 min read
"Hunter, Athlete, Soldier, Savior" ~ A blog post about Priesthood, shared by Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
I had a brother who wasn’t from my family. We worked a ranch down by the border where the rain clouds aren’t ever seen. Ol’ Rocko got...
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susan mcgurgan
Mar 22, 20215 min read
Two Palm Sunday Homilies (B) ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer and Susan McGurgan
Preaching Notes: Twice each year, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the gospel becomes a liturgical event in its own right....
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susan mcgurgan
Mar 16, 20214 min read
Lent 5 A Scrutiny "Exiting Tombs" ~ Susan McGurgan
There are seasons in my life --and maybe in yours-- when it seems like the Good News whispers while the Bad News shouts. A friend faces a...
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susan mcgurgan
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Lent 4B "Things We Carry" ~ Rev. Jim Schmitmeyer
They had been driven from their homes like cattle… forced to march through rugged land to a foreign country. We’re talking about the...
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susan mcgurgan
Mar 2, 20216 min read
Lent 3B "Fools for Christ" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
St. Paul is writing a letter to the Christians at Corinth because he is very familiar with that congregation. After all, he founded the...
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susan mcgurgan
Mar 2, 20215 min read
Lent 3 Scrutiny "Something in the Water" ~ Susan McGurgan
It was the kind of day when the hills shimmered in the heat and the sun offered the illusion of water- just a little further down the...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 22, 20214 min read
Lent 2B "Faces toward Jerusalem, Feet toward the Cross" ~ Susan McGurgan
From his miraculous birth to his baptism in the waters of the Jordan— from the feeding of the five thousand to the empty tomb on Easter...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 22, 20212 min read
Lent 2 B "Bustin' Colts at the Siloam Corral" ~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
If God is for us, who can be against us? The colt stood saddled, his eyes as calm as the Pool of Siloam. Then, the moment I pulled the ...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Lent 1 B "Eye Chart" ~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer
There’s a Texas Country song that goes like this: Storms running through the Midwest Like a bandit out on the loose. All the clouds are...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 16, 20214 min read
Lent 1 B "I Have Set My Bow" ~ Susan McGurgan
I have set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 11, 20213 min read
The Transfiguration & "Generic Homilies" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
As we approach the Feast of the Transfiguration, it may serve us well to revisit “generic homilies.” Texts in multiple attestation...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 8, 20214 min read
6th Sunday OT B ~ Something Messy, Something Big ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
We are soon entering the season of Lent, and for the second year, we will enter it masked and distanced, sanitized, gloved and Covid...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Remembering Santa~ Susan McGurgan Reflecting on the Paschal Mystery in the Time of Covid
During the pandemic, pastors who may have preached a dozen funeral homilies over the course of typical year, are now presiding over...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 5, 20215 min read
The Torn Veil ~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer Preaching in the Time of Covid
In “Preaching as a Social Act,” Don Wardlaw offers a homiletic schema that includes three over-lapping spheres: the world of the Bible,...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 2, 20217 min read
5th Sunday OTB~Rev. Richard Eslinger
Imagine you are invited to join on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the airport you are met by your guide and ushered onto the bus, off...
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susan mcgurgan
Feb 2, 20212 min read
5th Sunday OTB~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer/The Truth about Solitude
Does this gospel sound familiar to you? It should. After all, it contains a lot of familiar things: A mother-in-law with a headache....
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susan mcgurgan
Jan 25, 20213 min read
4th Sunday OT B ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan "Sabbath Morning in Capernaum"
It is Sabbath morning in Capernaum, and the smell of last night’s catch still lingers on the breeze and rises from the boats now anchored...
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susan mcgurgan
Jan 25, 20213 min read
4th Sunday OT B~ Fr. Jim Schmitmeyer "Screamin' Demons"
Demons. Now, there’s a modern-day concept!” Demons? No sooner than I read that word, I was already considering the first or second...
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susan mcgurgan
Jan 20, 20214 min read
The Bible in One Hand, Headlines in the Other: A Reflection Exercise ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
In 2013, Pope Francis spoke to the Holy See Diplomatic Corps, saying, “One of the titles of the Bishop of Rome is Pontiff-- that is, a...
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