Dives and Lazarus (Lk 16: 19-31)
The phrase “special option for the poor” was introduced during the Second Vatican Council(1962-5).
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Rev. Richard J. Taylor is the Spiritual Advisor for MaterCare International (Canada). You will find our collection of Rev. Taylor's homilies and writings here on our website.
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MaterCare International
- Nov 11, 2020
- 3 min
Keep us faithful in serving you
One of the greatest sorrows in the history of Christianity is that Christians have so often fought and killed fellow Christians.
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MaterCare International
- May 24, 2020
- 4 min
A Time of Waiting (Acts 1:8 ff)
The apostles could hardly have imagined their future. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself (2 Cor 5:17).
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MaterCare International
- Apr 25, 2020
- 5 min
Love and Forgiveness and Hope in the Corona Crisis
When the corona virus is pervasive we pray. We are helpless. But the medics who care for us are not there to deceive. They exist to help us.
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MaterCare International
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
Repent for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand (Mt 4:12 ff.)
With the closure of Christian Unity week which ended yesterday we witness another phase in the life of the Church.
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MaterCare International
- Jan 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Baptism of Jesus
Baptism in the Jordan was Jesus’ public commitment to the values of the Kingdom of God.
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MaterCare International
- Dec 27, 2019
- 2 min
St. John's Prologue
"Grace was God's loving kindness shown to his people, and truth meant unyielding fidelity to promises and commitments."
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MaterCare International
- Dec 16, 2019
- 2 min
REASSURING JOHN THE BAPTIST (MT 11:2FF.)
On Gaudete Sunday we see the best in all humanity...
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MaterCare International
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
World Day of the Poor: The End of Jerusalem. The End of Time (Lk 21:5ff.)
Our End of Time is: “Love that moves the sun and the other stars”
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MaterCare International
- Nov 11, 2019
- 4 min
KEEP US FAITHFUL IN SERVING YOU
As Christians today we come back to Our Lord: “Nobody takes my life from me: I lay it down of my own accord” (Jn 10:18).
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MaterCare International
- Nov 4, 2019
- 1 min
ZACCHAEUS (LK 19:1-10)
He ended up loving the poor and providing for them (v.8).
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MaterCare International
- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
World Mission Sunday (LK 18:1-8)
World Mission Sunday is about preaching and living the gospel wherever possible.
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MaterCare International
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
THE CONDITIONS OF DISCIPLESHIP (LK 14:33)
Love that does not involve self-sacrifice is not love. When we really love someone, we can never do enough for them.
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MaterCare International
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
“Help us to seek the values that will bring us enduring joy in this changing world”
There is evidence everywhere of things changing rapidly, changes that can be very unsettling...
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MaterCare International
- Aug 11, 2019
- 1 min
Everyone to whom much is given…will much be required (Lk 12:48)
Time and again the Church has shown its capacity to renew itself from within.
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MaterCare International
- Jul 28, 2019
- 2 min
St. Luke’s Prayer and Friendship (Lk 11:1-13)
St Luke has his own way of presenting The Lord’s Prayer. He puts it in the context of friendship.
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MaterCare International
- Jul 15, 2019
- 1 min
The Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37
Our presence here at Mass shows our willingness to want to be like Our Lord.
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MaterCare International
- Jun 21, 2019
- 4 min
Trinity Sunday, 2019
The family image of The Trinity remains essential. We go back to the Creation Narrative in the Book of Genesis.
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