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How many feast days does Mary have?
Every time I turn around, we're celebrating Mary. How many feast days does she have?
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God’s favor rests upon us
God said to each of us at our Baptism: "You are my beloved child. On you my favor rests." My favor. My grace. My love. God says these same things to the child who is about to be baptized, writes Father Gregory Apparcel, C.S.P. in our featured homily for Baptism.
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—ON RACISM: "Until white people call out white people, there will always be safe places for racial ugliness to brew and fester." —Father Bryan Massingale, S.J. (2020 June, NCR). —ON PANDEMIC: "Even when I cannot get out to join the community in prayer, God remains present, as Saint Augustine wrote, 'in my deepest interiority.' However lonely I feel, I am not alone, for at the core of my very being is Another." —Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. (2020 May, Commonweal)

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Homily stories

One day during a prolonged funk, when I was sure the world as we know it was coming to an end, my neighbor stopped by to ask me for help.

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Homily stories

When Bernard Hebda was in eighth grade, he thought he had an idea of what God was calling him to do, but he wasn’t sure: God either wanted him to become a priest or a bus driver.

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Homily stories

Flat on my back for three weeks, fighting an infection that ravaged my body and attacked both legs, leading to surgery and talk of possible amputation of one or both, I awoke intact but with a grueling regimen of physical therapy three times a day.

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