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Month: September 2020

John Wayne and Five Obstacles to Conversion

On September 27, 2020July 15, 2022 By Fr. Nick Baumgardner

Homily for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. Two days before he died, John Wayne was received into the Catholic Church. When asked why he took so long to convert, his grandson explained that Wayne regretted not doing it sooner and blamed the busyness of his life. To have been received into the …

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Gratitude, the Antidote to Envy

On September 20, 2020July 15, 2022 By Fr. Nick Baumgardner

Homily for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. In 1994, on one of the coldest days on record in Wisconsin history, my younger brother Andy was born. He was born with a rare chromosomal abnormality called Mosaic Trisomy 8. People often ask what this means. The best way to explain it is to …

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Inconceivable!

On September 14, 2020 By Fr. Nick Baumgardner

Homily for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. When I was in grade school, if you would have asked me what the longest word in the English language was, or the biggest number that had a name, I would have rattled them off quite easily. I was a big nerd, so I knew …

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The Value of a Single Soul

On September 8, 2020July 15, 2022 By Fr. Nick Baumgardner

Homily for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. Would I be a good priest? Would I be an effective priest? Would I be able to win souls for Jesus Christ? These were some of the questions that haunted me in my early years in seminary. And I was afraid that the answer to …

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