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Five Fundamentals for a Firm Faith – A Homily for the 27th Sunday of the Year Msgr. Charles Pope • October 1, 2016 • The readings for today’s Mass richly describe some essential qualities of faith. There are five fundamentals that can be seen:1. Wanting – The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5-6). There’s an old saying, “What you want, you get.” Many doubt this, thinking that they have wanted many things that they did not get. But it is likely that they just didn’t want it enough. When we really want something (provided it...

October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Hab 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for helpbut you do not listen!I cry out to you, “Violence!”but you do not intervene.Why do you let me see ruin;why must I look at misery?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, and clamorous discord.Then the LORD answered me and said:Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,so that one can read it readily.For the vision still has its time,presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;if it delays, wait for it,it will surely come, it will not be...

Marriage Is a Miracle! A Homily for the 27th Sunday of the Year Msgr. Charles Pope • October 3, 2015 • Both today’s first reading and the gospel speak to us of the miracle of marriage. If your marriage is working even reasonably well, it is a miracle! We live in an age that is poisonous to marriage. Many people look for marriage to be ideal, and if there is any ordeal, they want a new deal. Our culture says, if it doesn’t work out, bail out. Thus, successful marriages today are a miracle. But marriages are also a miracle...