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Deacon Scott

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Husband, Dad, Catholic deacon, teacher, love walking, hopeful pessimist

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 1d

A homily the Monday of the Twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time:

If the sign of Jonah the Lord referred to in our Gospel this evening is His resurrection from the dead after three days in the tomb, then the Lord extends this sign to us through the Eucharist.

Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings: Romans 1:1-7; Psalm 98:1-4; Luke 11:29-32 If the sign of Jonah the Lord referred to in our Gospel this evening is His resurrect...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 2d

An excerpt from my homily for today:

Spiritually speaking, a Christian is a healed leper.

Year C Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings: 2 Kings 5:14-17; Ps 98:1-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 Rather than my entire homily, this week I am only posting the final fi...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 4d

A cloudy, rainy, somber day. But a joyful one nonetheless:

In twenty-one, nearly twenty-two, years as a deacon, I have never celebrated a Funeral Liturgy outside Mass. This morning I will be doing th...

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 8d

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 8d

While the gift of faith is just that, a gift, it must not only be given but received.

The fruit of faith

Luke 17:5-10 Along with hope and love, faith is a theological virture. Unlike natural virtues, which can be acquired through habitus , t...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 11d

So, 2025, among other things (it has been challenging in numerous ways) has been a year of discernment

Oh no! Discernment, again?

Here it is October and I am dealing with the same thing I was dealing with in January. Time's relativity becomes more pronounced when going ...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 16d

Jesus' intensive on being His disciple continues apace:

Closing the chasm between heaven and hell

Readings: Amos 6:1a.4-7; Psalm 146:7-10; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 Jesus Christ, as our reading from 1 Timothy so directly states,...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 18d

It's Friday.

"That we may delight in Your will"

Friday means time for a traditio . As we approach the end of the ninth month of 2025, it seems to me like this year started just a short whi...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 24d

Some thoughts on our Sunday readings, at the center of which is a kind of tricky parable:

What to make of the dishonest steward?

Readings: Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113:1-2.4-8; 1 Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 The parable of the unjust steward is one of Saint Luke's trickier ...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 25d

In the words of the Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams," "everybody is looking for something."

Worldly confusion

"The world, the flesh, and the devil." Let's stick this morning with the world. Anyone who claims to be humble is proud. The more someon...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · 28d

Praying the Seven Sorrows Chaplet allows us to meditate on these sorrows and grow in our feelings of empathy for our Blessed Mother's sufferings.

Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

Readings: Hebrews 5:7-9; Psalm 31:2-6.15-16.20; Luke 2:33-35 Today, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, we obser...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 14

My homily for today:

As Christians, we face the harshness of reality by accepting the challenge of living the Gospel in its fullness.

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 12

As someone devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, I would be remiss not to observe today's optional Memorial of the Holy Name of Mary in a public way, especially since I am unable to attend Mass.

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 12

Some thoughts on recent events in which I don't pretend to completely answer the question I pose in the title:

Like wealth, politics cannot save you but it can surely damn you.

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 9

Conceived in the normal way but without the "stain" of original sin aided this young Nazarene woman to see things more clearly than those of us tainted by the fallen human condition.

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Readings: Romans 8:28-30; Psalm 13:6; Matthew 1:1-16.18-23 Prevenient grace is the term applied by the Church's magisterium to the Immacu...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 6

Some thoughts on our readings for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year C of the Sunday lectionary

Jesus' summons to carry your cross is quite literally what it means to follow Him.

Not being a Christian disciple: let Jesus count the ways

Readings: Wisdom 9:13-18b; Psalm 90:3-6.12-14.17; Philemon 9-10.12-17; Luke 14:25-33 Being a Christian is now has always been more than m...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Sep 5

t's Friday. While I have nothing profound, I hope I have something worthwhile to share.

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Busy and grateful or busily grateful

Busy-ness is hard for me. After a week or so, it starts to seem downright tyrannical. When I awoke on Monday morning, I steeled myself for ...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 31

Some reluctant thoughts on today's readings in light of last week's events:

The humility of forgiveness

The Annunciation is the first Joyful Mystery of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fruit of that mystery is humility. This link...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 29

Eastern Christians still venerate the Baptist very highly. Among Latin Catholics, his veneration has faded more than a bit.

Lavishly praise John the Baptist

With the Church’s observance this year of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Memorial of the Queenship of the B...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 24

My homily for today.

The Lord doesn’t say whether many or few will ultimately be saved. What He seeks is to bring his questioner and those listening (including you and me) back to their “I,” to a consideration of your own life.

Year C Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings: Isaiah 66:18-21; Psalm 117:1-2; Hebrews 12:5-7.11-13; Luke 13:22-20 “Will many be saved?” In our day the question maybe, “What ...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 22

On this Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let us heed the Holy Father by fasting and praying for peace!

Hail, Holy Queen

One week following the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church observes the Memorial of the Queenship of Mary. Th...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 19

Homily for a Monday.

Discipleship pays off in the long run, but idolatry pays off now.

Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings: Judges 2:11-19; Psalm 106:34-37.39-40.43ab.44; Matthew 19:16-22 It helps to know that in the two-year weekday lectionary only t...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 16

A few thoughts on the readings for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C of the Sunday cycle:

Fire on the earth

Readings: Jeremiah 36-4-6.8-10; Psalm 40:2-4.18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of my little d...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hard to believe. Tempest fugit:

Twenty years of blogging here

It was 20 years ago today, 16 August 2005, that I first began this effort. I logged into the computer located in the office I shared with th...

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Deacon Scott @deacondodge.bsky.social · Aug 15

A traditio for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

"A great sign appeared in heaven"

For those ofus who still abstain on Fridays, even in places where it is not obligatory, a Friday Solemnity is a nice thing. Even where Frid...

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