Sunday's Homily:

Avoiding Life's Excesses - Do We Talk Too Much?

Sunday
of Week 18 in Ordinary Time in Year A
Sometimes we think of saints as super-human, near-perfect, people. But were they really like that? They were special people, certainly, but human nonetheless and heirs, therefore, to the same weaknesses of the flesh as the rest of us, even though we see them most often in stained glass or placed on...
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