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Pastoral Associate, Spiritual Director, preacher, leader, writer, pod-caster. America's Catholic Sweetheart. Wicked funny.
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Preaching camp is back! Our semester of online classes is back as of this week, and the topic is Liturgical Preaching. At our first gathering we were tasked with giving a one minute homily on Mark’s Easter Sunday Gospel alongside the Easter Sequence. One minute! Here’s mine, feel free to read it out loud very fast and in a mildly desperate, beat-the-clock fashion, as I did: <a href="https://margomorin.substack.com/p/
Hermily for 9.24.26 (opens the original)
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The readings are here.There’s nothing like a few cheery scriptures on a Thursday morning, right? Especially that first reading from Ecclesiastes.And, you know, I always struggled with this reading because I thought the writer meant vanity, as in that song, “you’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you.” I thought the author was chewing us out, we the readers, for trying to glorify our own selves with the way we live our lives.Someone eventually explained to me that the word “vanity”
Hermily for 9.17.26 (opens the original)
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The readings are here.Remember Rorschach tests? They were big in psychology in the 60s and 70s. They were a series of ink blots and people were supposed to look at each one and describe what they saw... it was supposed to reveal, through their answer, what their true thoughts and, I guess, their issues.The thing was, the blots... were always the same images. Everyone who took this test looked at the same ink blots but what they saw, what each person saw, was different, according to their situati
Hermily for 9.10.26 (opens the original)
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The readings are here. [This hermily is adapted from the first one I preached at Proclaim, on Psalm 139. Stop me if you’ve heard this one.]You’ve heard me mention the retreats I attended in high school; the cross I wear when I preside is from a life-changing retreat I went on in my Junior year, in 1986. This three-day weekend was where I first learned about myself, that God was calling me to ministry. Which would be life-changing enough…But also on that retreat, I learned something important abo
Hermily for 9.3.26 (opens the original)
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Today we celebrate another feast day, that of St. Gregory the Great. But today is also the feast for St. Phoebe.St. Gregory is known for having mixed up his Marys in an Easter sermon in the 500’s confusing Mary Magdalene with the “penitent woman” in Luke who washes Jesus’ feet with her tears. If you’ve ever heard that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, we have St. Gregory to blame. On the other hand, he is called great because he was so dedicated to sharing with those in need. He led the Church in
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