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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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Tuesday May 10, 2016
Tuesday May 10, 2016
The eyes of Jesus' disciples are fixed on the heavens as Jesus returns to his Father. But it is Earth with her many miseries that needs their apostolic attentions now.
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
"Oh, what a beautiful city!" That wonderful opening line to one of the great African-American spirituals calls to mind the image of the New Jerusalem come down from heaven found in the Book of Revelation. The hope that that hymn rejoices in calls us all to hope in the ultimate victory of God in our world.
Monday Mar 28, 2016
Monday Mar 28, 2016
Grief is hard to bear almost always. It is all the more difficult when the grief is for someone who dies before his/her time...and still more difficult when the death is a terrible injustice. Such was the grief of the disciples of Jesus. The Easter mysteries open their eyes and hearts to something greater than their grief, greater than the grave.
Thursday Mar 17, 2016
Thursday Mar 17, 2016
Father Kevin was honored to be invited to offer a reflection to the priests of the Diocese of Yakima during a day of prayer in advance of the annual Chrism Mass in which the priests renew their ordination promises. He chose as his text the story from Luke's Gospel of the three temptations faced by Jesus in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry, retelling the story then making a simple application to the lives and ministry of parish priests today.
Sunday Mar 13, 2016
Sunday Mar 13, 2016
A stone is a stone is a stone...but once picked up by one of us, it can become something much more...even an instrument of execution. This story from Luke's Gospel of a woman about to be stoned, but rescued by Jesus' words, "Let the one who has not sinned cast the first stone," reminds us of just how important it is for all of us to drop our stones as well.
Thursday Mar 10, 2016
Thursday Mar 10, 2016
Jesus tells a story, the lessons of which continue to speak to us and prophetically challenge us to take stock of how we treat one another and how well we share the blessings we receive in this life.
Sunday Mar 06, 2016
Sunday Mar 06, 2016
To understand how Jesus understood and knew himself, this extraordinary parable is the key to his opening his mind and heart to us so many centuries later!
Thursday Mar 03, 2016
Thursday Mar 03, 2016
In this fourth installment of Father Kevin's Lenten Reflections, we go deep into one of the great stories of John's Gospel, the healing of the Man Born Blind (John 9). Through the compassionate opening of his eyes, he comes to see the Light of the World, even as those around him sink ever more into the darkness of spiritual blindness.
Sunday Feb 28, 2016
Sunday Feb 28, 2016
The story of Moses and his strange encounter with the Burning Bush is retold by Father Codd. (Hold on for the ride!)
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
Father Kevin begins this reflection by attending first to the invitation found in Isaiah 55 to "come to the water". That invitation finds beautiful expression in Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob (John 4). The dialogue between the two leads the woman not only to come to know herself and Jesus, but eventually to become an apostle of Jesus to her own community, who also come to believe that Jesus is indeed the Messiah.