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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 Feb 24, 2019
Sunday Feb 24, 2019
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the moral exhortations of Jesus in today's gospel reading. How can I ever live up to such high standards of loving, forgiving, and self-giving! Maybe the stories of family life can help: it is in the small things that we live Jesus' moral mandates of love.
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
Sunday Feb 17, 2019
Jesus sits down with his disciples and gives them his first "formation conference." He teaches them about the kingdom of God in terms of blessings and woes. But from whom did Jesus learn all this? Maybe Mary?
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Jesus' return visit to his hometown of Nazareth begins well enough: he's invited to teach in the village synagogue, and at first, all is well. Then strains in his relationship to his fellow Nazarenes goes south fast. Why?
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Jesus returns to Nazareth and in the synagogue of his home town he reads from the prophet Isaiah and declares to all assembled his life mission: to open the eyes of the blind!
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
The onward march of science has taken some of the wonder out of our stars. We now know that they do not travel, they do not accompany, they do not hold within them our destinies. So what of the story of the Three Magi from the East and their famous star guiding them to Bethlehem? Can their story be retold for our times? Let's try!
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018
Sometimes the radio stations just don't quite get it when it comes to separating Advent music from Christmas music! O Come, O Come Emmanuel is decidedly NOT a Christmas hymn and should NOT be aired after mid-day, December 24th! Yet maybe that error in judgement tells us something important about Christmas itself: once we were a people who longed for God to Come to us...now we are a people who are called by God to come to him.
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Nov 25, 2018
Sunday Nov 25, 2018
The history of humanity's relationship to this world's kings is not exactly a positive one. Why then do we use the image of a "king" to describe Jesus, the very model of humility and self-giving service.
Friday Oct 26, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
The story of creation, and particularly the creation of humanity, in the second chapter of Genesis is a weird one. Paramount among its weird aspects is the image of the rib taken from the Man's chest and used to create a suitable partner. What we are really talking about here is God's placement in all of us of the need to love even as God loves. This is also at the root of Jesus' words about marriage and divorce in the Gospel of Mark.