| | A Son Becomes a Father: Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) The last line in today’s Gospel is sometimes translated “He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.” I hope that wasn’t a prophetic commentary on my homilies. |
 | | In all of our readings today we hear of God’s love for those who suffer afflictions of one kind or another, blindness, deafness, muteness, poverty etc. In Jesus’ time, and I would suggest even in our own, these people are looked down upon. |
 | | I believe that the hispanic community in this country represents a sleeping giant in American Catholicism and I pray that very soon their voice will be heard on such critical social issues. |
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