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07 (Music For 18 Musicians (Pulses), Steve Reich)

I gave this homily on July 10, 2015: readings proper to Friday of the 14th Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle "1" daily readings; Votive Mass in honor of the Precious Blood of Jesus; ordinary form of the Roman Catholic Mass; Friday Eucharistic Devotions; 8:00 AM Mass at St. John's in Rapids City.  The 4th of July has come and gone.  The hot dogs have been put away.  The fireworks have been reduced to ash.  I suppose most people would say that this huge expenditure of public resources for fireworks is a necessary sacrifice which we make in the name of freedom.  But let’s talk about the precious blood of our soldiers that have been spilled on the field of battle so that we can watch our baseball games, eat our hot dogs, and enjoy our piece of the American Pie.   If the blood of our fallen soldiers is precious to us, you can only imagine how the blood of the martyrs is precious to us- for us who count ourselves to be fellow citizens of the martyrs in the Kingdom of Heaven.  If the blood of the martyrs is so precious to us, you can imagine how precious is the Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ is to us; the sacrifice of blood which gives the sacrifice of the martyrs their meaning.  For all the details, you will have to listen to this recording of this homily which I now make available to you.

Baseball, Hot Dogs, American Pie, and the Blood of Jesus

Our Morning Glory team was joined this Friday morning by Father Michael Collins to discuss his new book about the 'people's Pope,' and Peter Jesserer Smith of National Catholic Register joins us in-studio to talk about the religious persecution of Christians in Syria - and will we ever call it what it is - genocide! All this and more on this Friday edition of Morning Glory! Join us every weekday morning from 7-8am for the latest in the news of the day -all shed from a Catholic perspective.. Morning Glory... Because every new morning is a gift... 

Morning Glory with Brian Patrick & Gloria Purvis along with Father Vincent De Rosa!

Baptism and Ongoing Conversion

It's amazing to contemplate the sight of the crowds gathering to welcome Jesus into Jerusalem with palms in hand and chants of Hosanna.  Then after a few debates with the high priests, the scribes, and pharisees; and overturning the money changers tables, the same crowds start yelling, "Crucify Him".   The crowds are fascinating to watch during Passion week.  But there is also a danger to crowd mentality.  As Charles Mackay once said, "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."  The crowd mentality can throw logic, reason, and morality out the window and is dangerous.  In the homily I talk about how "the crowd" still attacks God today and why we need to beware of the crowd.

Danger: Beware of the Crowd

I gave this homily on March 31, 2018 at the Easter Vigil: ordinary form of the Roman Catholic Mass; 8:00 PM Saturday Mass at St. John's in Rapids City. Easter Sunday is the Christian Passover. It’s the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus.  And lo and behold, Easter Sunday lands on April 1st this year, which is April Fool’s Day.  I want to assure you that the empty tomb is not some big April Fool’s Day joke.  The resurrection actually happened.   When Jesus left that tomb he never went back, and we left with him.  Attached to this recording is a photo of newly baptized Isaiah Seth Brooks, with his parents Seth and Nikki (Porter) Brooks,

The Empty Tomb Was Not An April Fool's Day Joke

The Direction of Our Parishes II: What the Lord is Asking of Our Parishes

I gave this homily on June 8, 2018: Readings proper to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Ordinary form of the Roman Catholic Mass; 8:00 AM Friday Mass at St. John's in Rapids City.   In Kentucky, they built a life size version of Noah's Ark. At least to the specifications that are stipulated in the bible story. You can go down there and take of tour of it. But you don't have to go to Kentucky, because we have the new Ark of the Church in the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  As part of the 40 Hours of Divine Mercy that begins June 19th, the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available every day.  We will have several priests hearing confessions at 2:00 PM on Sunday, June 24th, an hour before the closing ceremony with Msgr. Swetland.  Confession helps to remove the spiritual blockages to our own hearts, so that we can receive all the graces that Jesus wants to give us that flows from his Sacred Heart.

Boats, Blockages, and Blessings

Devin Schadt gave this presentation as part of our "40 Hours of Divine Mercy" on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at a 9:00 AM presentation at St. John's in Rapids City.

Devin Schadt: To Be Living Is To Be Forgiving

Poland's Savior and Your Savior

Praying for Dad's Conversion

Today as we celebrate the first Sunday of Advent, we are reminded that Jesus came once before and He will come again.  And that as we are preparing for Christmas, a remembrance of His first coming, why we should on a daily basis prepare for His second coming.  Today we are also reminded that God made a promise to His people Israel in today's first reading from Isaiah and that Jesus was the fulfillment of that promise.  So today as we begin Advent I focus on God keeping His promises and in the homily I also include a true story from Matthew Kelly's book, "Rediscovering Catholicism" about the underground Catholic Church.  Happy Advent everyone!

A God Who Keeps His Promises

The Kills - Venus In Furs [The Velvet Underground]

https://www.innova.mu/albums/grand-valley-state-university-gvsu-new-music-ensemble/steve-reichs-music-18-musicians

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Section 1

Fr. Glenn H. Harris is a Roman Catholic Priest for the Diocese of Peoria.   This is part of his efforts to implement the "New Evangelization."

Baseball, Hot Dogs, American Pie, and the Blood of Jesus

Fr. Harris

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