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The Sermon on the Mount | Part 2: Salt & Light | Homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

In this second homily of our Sermon on the Mount series, Deacon Chris reflects on one of Jesus’ most direct and challenging teachings: “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.” Jesus does not offer these words as a future goal or an abstract ideal. He speaks them as a statement of reality. Because we are baptized into Christ, this is already our identity. The question, then, is not

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That they may have life | Part 1 – Foundations | What does it really mean to live a good life?

In the first session of That They May Have Life, we explore the foundations of Christian morality: what every human person is made for, where true happiness is found, and how freedom, conscience, and grace shape our moral lives. Far from being a list of rules, Christian morality is an invitation to share in the very life of Christ, who came so that we might have life in abundance

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Growing in Relationship with Jesus | Prayer, Charity, and a Rule of Life | Adult Faith Formation

Growing in Relationship with Jesus | Prayer, Charity, and a Rule of Life | Adult Faith Formation This Adult Faith Formation session focuses on how Christians can intentionally grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Fr. Will Rooney presents the heart of the Christian life as a response to God’s love—received first as a gift and then lived out through charity, prayer, and daily faithfulness. Drawing on Scripture, the teaching of Pope Benedict XVI, and

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Your Holy Family | Motherhood – To Receive, Reflect, and Respond | Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Motherhood – To Receive, Reflect, and Respond This homily is the second reflection in a three-part Christmas–Epiphany series on the family. Given by Dcn. Chris Haberberger on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, it focuses on the vocation of motherhood as God’s chosen way of giving His Son to the world. The reflection highlights how God’s self-revelation comes not in abstraction, but within the simplicity of a family. Mary’s motherhood reveals the heart of

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