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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 Mar 19, 2017
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
The Third Sunday of Lent in the "A" Cycle presents us with a terrific story...one that merits a sort of narrative analysis to see just how masterly Jesus brings the Living Water of salvation to a whole town.
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
The Transfiguration featured in this gospel is yet another episode in the Lenten Adventures of Jesus of Nazareth. The meaning of Jesus' upcoming passion and death is not yet grasped by Peter, James and John. The Father's voice from heaven commands Jesus' disciples to shut up already and LISTEN to him... Good advice for all of us in this Lenten season!
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
The first Man and Woman were tempted to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, thus (they supposed) making themselves gods...with no need of GOD.
Jesus was tempted in the desert to eat bread of his own divine making, throw himself from the parapet of the Temple without suffering consequences, and take the fast road to ruling the World...all temptations to presume upon his divinity so that he needn't be quite so human.
How ironic! One is the temptation of humanity to make itself its own god...and the other for God to be not quite human in all its lowliness, weakness, and exposure to injustice and death.
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
A new trend in some Christian churches is to replace the ashes of Ash Wednesday with glitter. Hmmm. What might we be losing with the practice?
Sunday Feb 19, 2017
Sunday Feb 19, 2017
As he continues his preaching from atop the Mount of Beatitudes, Jesus goes after the moral certainty that we must love our neighbor...meaning those who belong to OUR tribe...but remain free to fear, hate, and even kill those who are outsiders.
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
Jesus' first great sermon in Matthew's Gospel is a revolutionary restructuring of just who is on top and who is on the bottom of the social and religious hierarchy of his time...and our own.
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
Sunday Jan 08, 2017
Father Kevin retells the Epiphany story with some creative license, but to make an important point or two about the real star that called them to Bethlehem. Father's experience as a pilgrim walking across France and Spain has influenced his retelling of this great and holy tale.
Sunday Dec 25, 2016
Sunday Dec 25, 2016
The Christmas story warms our hearts year after year with nostalgia aplenty! But is nostalgia and warmth what the Evangelists want from this story for us? To find out, let's take a quick trip through Salvation History from the Big Bang to the Big Resurrection so that this story might be for us a new "Big Bang" of eyes opening to God-with-us!
Thursday Dec 08, 2016
Monday Oct 24, 2016
Monday Oct 24, 2016
The old story of the Emperor's New Clothes gives us a great entree into understanding Jesus's own parable that "uncovers" the pompous hypocrisy of the praying Pharisee and the true prayer of the tax collector.