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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 04, 2018
Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Today's Gospel passage highlights Jesus' healing grace as he tenderly takes the hand of Peter's mother-in-law and restores her to health. It is the perfect image for our continuing ministry of healing as celebrated in the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, the celebration of which in our parish follows this homily.
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Mark's Gospel is similar to one of those Hollywood movies that begin with a big battle scene and then holds your attention until the last big battle scene!
Today we are treated to a front-row seat at the big cosmic battle that almost opens Mark's Gospel: the battle between Jesus and the power of God verses the impure spirit and the powers of darkness. Hold on to your seats!
Sunday Jan 21, 2018
Sunday Jan 21, 2018
Mark's version of the story of the call of the first disciples by the Sea of Galilee seems most improbable? Is it possible that he no more than shows up, calls, and they follow...leaving behind everything in an instant?
Maybe Mark is trying to teach us some important things about Jesus...and us!
He has something which attracts us like "love at first sight"...what it is?
He finds us...we don't find him.
He meets us right where we are at in our daily lives, at home, at work, at school.
Homily delivered at Sacred Heart Church, Othello, WA. (Apologies again for the raspy voice!)
Saturday Jan 06, 2018
Saturday Jan 06, 2018
Each of the popular names given to today's Gospel characters adds its own nuance to the Epiphany story, but the mostly fogotten name is the most important: The Three Strangers!
(Apologies for the raspy voice...recovering from the Great Flu Epidemic of 2018!)
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Sunday Dec 10, 2017
Renaissance artists often pictured John the Baptist and Jesus as cute-as-can-be-infants together as cousins. Mark has none of it! In his gospel, John is a full-grown, wild-eyed prophet with divine fire in his heart!
Saturday Nov 25, 2017
Saturday Nov 25, 2017
As our human imagination fails us in picturing that which we have not yet seen, as with our earth before the Apollo missions or the universe before Hubble, so it is with God. Our images of God were so feeble compared to the reality of "God Among Us", Jesus Christ.
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
We can learn from television's domestic diva how to set a perfect Thanksgiving table and how to cook the perfect Thanksgiving turkey, but it is easy to find we have celebrated the great feast of Thanksgiving without much giving of thanks. Today's parable from Matthew's Gospel helps pull us back to the foundational attitudes of the heart that put the "thanks" back into Thanksgiving.
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
"Practice what you preach!" Great advice, but so hard to live. In fact, how could we actually, fully practice what we preach when what we preach, profess, proclaim, and teach is this beautiful Way of Jesus? We fail at it all the time! So what is to be done...not preach? Maybe not...look to Paul who knows he is a fragile vessel of the Word of God, yet proclaims it anyway!
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...