The following is a close approximation of the homily I delivered for the 3rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) during the  9 and 11 AM Masses at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell. The scripture readings on which this is based can be found by clicking this link.

At the end of  my 1st grade year, my dad was transferred to a Naval base north of Chicago. There were wide open spaces to play and countless children as playmates.  Kickball had teams of 20. Baseball games with 15 on a team were normal. I had more friends than you can imagine and was very happy.  Then my father was transferred to a base in Japan. The family moved to New Orleans without him. My friends, my dad, and my happiness were all gone.

For Christmas when I was 11, I got my first new bike ever.

The following is a close approximation of the homilies I delivered for the 33rd Sunday in ordinary time, November 18th and 19th at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell, LA. The scripture readings on which this is based can be found by clicking this link.

What are you afraid of?  I would be willing to bet that there are people her with fears that they think no one else has and would be surprised out how common the fear is.

The following is a close approximation of the homily I delivered October 15, 2017 at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell. The scripture readings on which this is based can be read by clicking this link.

The word content comes from the Latin contentus which roughly means  completely satisfied with your situation.  As a youngster, I earned money by gardening and lawn care in the neighborhood.

If you look up the definition of the word  protest  then it would probably be technically correct to consider what  former NFL player Colin Kaepernick did last year and what NFL players did on the weekend of  September 24th a protest of sorts.  It quickly becomes murky, however that these were legitimate protests.
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The following is a close approximation of the homily I delivered at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell, LA September 16-17.  The scripture readings on which this homily is based can be found by clicking this link.

Is there someone in your life, current or past that has hurt you or a family member so badly that you just cannot forgive them.

This is an approximation of the homily I delivered at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell for the 22nd Sunday in ordinary time, Year A.  The scripture on which this is based can be found by clicking this link.

If you ask the question “What’s the best material with which to construct a building.?” the answer you get would likely depend on the background and mindset of the person you asked.  A metalworker or welder, would probably want to construct it out of steel.
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The following is an approximation of the  homily I delivered  at St. Luke the Evangelist in Slidell, LA for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A.  The scripture readings on which this is base can be found by clicking here.

Likely most of you have seen a Disney Aladdin movie or TV shows or remember the show “I Dream of Genie”.  The word genie is the English equivalent of the Arabic jinn., a mythical order of created being between angels and humans.
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The following is an approximation of the homily I delivered July 23rd, 2017 for the 16th Sunday of of Ordinary Time.  The scripture reading upon which this based can be found by clicking this link.

Even as a very young man, everyone knew he would end up no good.  He skipped school.  He was always big and powerful for his age, growing to 6’ 6” by his early teens.  He was a bully, and beat up on smaller children. His mother was even terrified of him.

Analogies and metaphors are often used make complicated things seem simple.  From the movie Forrest Gump, you will likely remember “Life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you’re gonna get”.  This is a simple explanation a complex issue – sometimes not matter what you do, you cannot control the outcome.  Even when you pick what you think is the chocolate covered caramel, sometimes you bite into the orange-raspberry crème.

Most of the country, if not the Western world has heard about the effort by the City of New Orleans to remove monuments that can any way be construed to glorify anything to do with the Confederate States of America.  The four monuments that Mayor Mitch Landrieu put on the his hit list are:

The monument to the Battle of Liberty Place

The statue to Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard at the front of New Orleans City Park

The statue of Confederate General Robert E.
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