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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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Saturday Oct 28, 2017
Saturday Oct 28, 2017
Ten Commandments to guide us, innumerable laws to keep us on the straight and narrow, and then there is love! Loving God and Neighbor is the fulfillment of the Law, says Jesus.
Saturday Oct 14, 2017
Saturday Oct 14, 2017
This is a tough parable for many of us...it has some big twists that leave us scratching our heads. Once told, we can't help but wonder why the one guy who came in from the street was summarily thrown out of the King's wedding feas for his son. Hmmm...
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
The three consecutive vineyard parables of Matthew's Gospel culminate today in the most challenging of all. Jesus lets the Jerusalem big-shots have it with this third tale to be staged in a vineyard.
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
Sunday Sep 24, 2017
A lot of folks don't like today's parable from Jesus! It is just not fair...it is just not just, that those who work one hour get paid the same as those who work eight or ten! But is this really the point of Jesus' parable? Nope!
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
With a school community not far from us having just experienced the horror of a "school shooting" (one student lost, three others injured), today's readings are very much apropos to the hard realities of the human heart's dark side...and a serious examination of our own hearts. Do we ourselves "hug tight" wrath, anger, and vengeance or do we follow the way of Jesus: praying for our persecutors and asking the Father to forgive them for they do not know what they do?
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Sunday Sep 03, 2017
Peter is among those who see life as a big bowl of cherries, or at least so it seems from today's Gospel. He cannot abide the thought of Jesus (or himself) having to endure suffering, humiliation, death itself. Jesus challenges his "bowl of cherries" mentality...and ours...by calling Peter...and us...to bear our crosses with self-giving love and thus transform them into trees of life.
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Sunday Aug 27, 2017
Upon his return from Spain, Fathe Kevin shares with our parish family a bit about his experience serving as a volunteer "hospitalero" in the small village of Grañon along the Camion de Santiago de Compostela.
Sunday Jul 09, 2017
Sunday Jul 09, 2017
"He's not heavy, Father; he's my brother." The famous motto of Fr. Flanagan's Boys' Town captures the heart of Jesus' message to his followers when it comes to making burdens light for one another.
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
The hospitality afforde to pilgrims along the Way of Saint James reminds us that this great virtue, when an exercise of self-giving love, is a blessing both for the receiver and the giver. It is an experience of God's kind of love!
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
Paul's blessing of the Corinthians in his second letter lets us know that very early on the notion of God as Father-Son-Spirit was already part of the Christian spiritual DNA. Reverse engineering his lovely blessing helps us understand the experiences that led those Christians to this most unusual understanding of the One God of their ancestors.