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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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Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
Wednesday Dec 25, 2024
It seems that the more we honor God as "Almighty", the further he seems to be from us. We imagine the Almighty God as a severe judge, a king enthroned on high, or even as Michaelangelo's old man with a great beard floating on heavenly clouds. As God becomes ever more distant from us and our lives here on this earth, so too the cry from our hearts: "Where are you God; I need you HERE!" Those images of God Almighty are shattered on this day, when God becomes the Unmighty: nothing but flesh and blood like us, poor, cold, defenseless against the night. This is the great mystery we celebrate on this great morning: An Unmighty God Among Us!
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Elizabeth is one of those dear people you just want to get to know. So today, using the gift of homiletic imagination, let's spend some time with her and listen to her tell her story...
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
The question is repeated several times over; John is asked: What should we do? John's answer is a baseline of moral behaviour; it is nothing extraordinary. John is just trying to get his people up to the minimum of decent human and Jewish behavior. John knows that the One Who Is To Come will ask far more of them: a much deeper kind of love, a self-giving love!
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Luke opens his version of Jesus's story with a bit of historical context. It is important in telling us that the story that follows is not a fable or a fairy tale or a great work of fiction. It is history. And this very real story begins with John in the desert...
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
The great prayer of Advent is a simple one: "Come, Lord, Come! It expresses our humility before God; we cannot save ourselves! It trusts in God's ability to save us. It places full faith and confidence that God, indeed, WILL save us! The pattern of crying out to God in our tribulations to come, then waiting for his coming, and finally experiencing his coming to save us is an old one, but it is especially present in the story of Jesus. His story of victory over the worst humanity could throw at him opens up our own story's end to be one of ultimate victory over evil and the forces of death and destruction. And so we yet pray: Come, Lord, come!
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
The Gospel passage from John this final Sunday of the Church's liturgical year presents us with two "kings" facing one another. One is typical of most human kings: power and domination are the currency of their reign. The other is far from typical: a humble carpenter, a controversial prophet, one willing to let go of all power in self-sacrificial love, destined for a cruel death. How can he be considered a "king" of anything? Let's ponder that question in this homily...
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
As the church year draws to a close, our liturgical readings are replete with apocolyptic imagery. Some of it is deeply consoling while other passages make us shiver with fear and trembling. Perhaps, the images in today's gospel can be read a different way: as images of a great love and a new life being born.
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, EC.
Sunday Nov 10, 2024
Sunday Nov 10, 2024
Jesus attends to those who donate to the Temple in Jerusalem. The rich donors do not impress him, but a poor widow clearly does touch him deeply. In her self-giving, he sees himself and what will happen to him in Jerusalem.
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community of Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Let us consider the Scribe who asks Jesus which of the commandments is the most important. Jesus answer seems to astound the man: "The greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, all your sould, all your mind, and all your strength...and the second: love your neighbor as yourself." The Scribe finds these to be the perfect response to his question and says so. Jesus commends his understanding of this great mystery and says to him that he is not far from the Kingdom of God. What moved the man to ask this question in the first place? We can only conjecture, but the end result is a commendation to all of us to consider the quality of our own love of God and love of neighbor.
Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
El escriba en el evangelio de hoy presenta a Jesús una pregunta muy fundamental: "Cual de los mandamientos de la ley es lo más importante? La respuesta de Jesús le impresiona mucho y el escriba dice que Jesús de verdad tiene razón. Es cierto que el mandamiento más grande de todo es amar a Dios con todo su corazón y amar a su prójimo como a si mismo.
Homilía compartido en la Iglesia de San Francisco de Cuenca, Ecuador.