Baccalaureate Homily for the Class of 2004, Bethlehem Catholic High School Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Trinity Sunday, 6 June 2004 Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity. When I talk about the Trinity, I normally use a doctrinal formula: In the
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My friend Joyce had been working as a chaplain at the state hospital for the mentally ill, some thirteen years ago, when the staff got the word that the facility would be closing. It was a gradual process, and every effort was made to find other places for the employees
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Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. –Matthew 5:8– Some years ago, an experienced teaching sister at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, stood before her second-grade class on the first day of school. “Boys and girls,” she began, “my name is Sister Assunta.”
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Bright Gabriel’s voice the Virgin heard And was receptive to God’s word. The sleeping Joseph saw, it seems, Angelic visions in his dreams. Shepherds prompted by Heaven’s choir Sought newborn Christ with hearts afire. And wise men came from country far, Led on by light of natal star. How could
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