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Father Kevin A. Codd, recently retired, is a priest of the Diocese of Spokane, WA. He is now serving the Catholic Expat community in Cuenca, Ecuador. Here he shares his Sunday homilies and other occasional reflections.
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Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Mark wraps one great story around another, forming one of his characteristic "gospel sandwiches". In this sandwich, the story of two unrelated afflicted women are told and in each Jesus heals them out of immense compassion and without consideration for their social and religious status.
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
On this Second Sunday following Easter, we hear again the story of "Doubting Thomas"; sadly that nickname stuck more than the truer reality of this apostle: he is the one who proclaims before Jesus: "My Lord and my God!"
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
On the Third Sunday of Lent, we are presented in John's Gospel with the images of two temples, one made by hands and one not. Both will fall, only one will rise again.
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
On the solemn feast of the Epiphany, we learn from the wisdom of these "Wise Men".
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
As Covid-19 continues to ravage the world, we gather for Christmas. The "darkness" of the prophet seems very much our own, but it first belonged to Israel. The knew God was near, but he wasn't here. That changes with the birth of Jesus; now, God is indeed both near and here!
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
The woman set among us by John's Gospel, by all rights, should not be here! For all that makes her undeserving, one thing makes her a most fitting presence among us: She thirsts!
(This was the final weekend our church was open for several months as we and all the world dealt with the covid-19 pandemic. Sunday Masses for the next three or four months took place in Father Kevin's living room...livestreamed, of course.)
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
On this first Sunday of the Lenten season, we are plunged into the mystery of temptation. From Adam and eve to Jesus himself, the challenge is always the same: not presuming we are gods and letting God be God for us.
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Everyone loves the Golden Rule, "Treat your neighbor as you want to be treated". Most of us do a fine job of living it in our homes and neighborhoods, but when we try to "scale it up" in a complex society, it seems mostly to get lost in the compulsive struggle to survive; it is replaced by "dog eat dog".
Jesus in today's Gospel reading has much to say about this and it is not easy to hear...
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Blessed are those with eyes to see...and who see! No need to be convinced of that! As valuable as our eyesight is to us, there is yet another, deeper and richer, kind of "seeing" in life. Old Simeon and even older Anna know well this kind of "seeing", formed in trust of God and hope in his will being accomplished. In them, we learn: "Blessed are they with eyes to see...and who see God!"
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
The Christmas season wraps up with Jesus as an adult standing on the banks of the Jordan River. There he rubs elbows with humanity in all of its brokenness and need. There he finds his vocation...