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Sacraments Social Issues
Spirituality St. Aloysius
Stewardship
Advent:
Advent Theme Who Am I
120306
Always Live Joyfully
121408
Awaken to the Child who Saves Us
121904
Come Lord Jesus
112909
Give Us Peace
122209
God Prepares the Way
112705
God Prepares the Way
120405
Is It Christmas Yet
122301
It’s That Time of Year
121706
Known to All the Nations
122108
Prepare the Way of the Lord
120901
That We may Believe
122307
The Gift of Joy
121403
The Lord Will Fulfill His Promise
113008
The Year of Matthew
112804
Walk in the Light of the Lord
120201
Being Catholic:
Come Lord and Save Us
120609
Everyone is Looking for You
020809
Staying Connected
051009
The Fountain of Faith
011302
The Time Has Come
111801
You Say I am King
112606
Bible:
Every Word of God
021305
Two Great Stories
031906
Catholic Church:
A Good Death the Final Respect for Life
102608
Beyond the Grave
100806
How Devoted Are You
041909
Is There Space in Your Pew,
111509
Is There Space in Your Pew, part II
112209
May They Have Eternal Life
110208
Sanctity and Sinfulness
020710
The Death of a Pope
041005
The Gift of Priesthood
052205
The Papal Conclave
041705
The Star That Leads Us Home
010310
Upon This rock
082105
Christianity:
Follow THE Star
010707
If you Believe, you will live
030908
The Lord Gives Us New Life
011104
You are Coming to Me
011308
Christmas:
A Child is Born
122509
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
122505
The Perfect Gift
122506
Easter:
Happy Easter
032308
The Joys of Easter
040305
What Do You Mean He Rose
041606
Eucharist:
A Few Reminders
081306
A Rare Honor
052905
A Special Corpus Christi
061806
Are You the Only Visitor
040608
Behold the Lamb of God
011605
Behold the Lamb of God
012002
Do You Have Life Within You
081609
Eucharist Happy Anniv. To the Body of Christ
061304
Food that Perishes
080209
Knowing Jesus
042609
My flesh for the Life of the World
082006
The Most Holy Sacrament
061409
The Timeless Gift
080909
Use The Gate
041308
Whoever Eats This Bread Will Live Forever
052508
Faith:
A Muscular Catholic
021206
Caution Only Read if you are over 35
081008
Dear Mr. President
012509
Do We Conform or Are We Transformed
083108
Do You Also Want to Leave
082309
God Proves His Love for Us
032909
Have You Been Persuaded
093007
Heaven Isn’t Heavenly
072008
I Too Have Decided
012410
I Will Not
092808
Strong Enough to Enter
082607
The Lord Worked With Them
052806
We Are Not Dogs
081708
You are Witnesses
043006
God:
A Chance to Grow Rich
071308
Because He’s God
031107
Counting the Cost
090504
God Proves his Love for Us
030809
Is He the Christ or Background Noise
082408
O Lord, Do Come Along
051808
Only TWO Commandments
102305
So I Send You
053004
The Images of God
091601
The Path, the Rocks, the Thorns in Us
071005
What Makes a Jubilee
061508
Helping:
A Voice in the Desert
121006
To Our Graduates
070107
Welcome Father Gene
050204
Working Together
060307
Working Together
060808
Holy Spirit:
An Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
060406
Anointed by the Spirit
010905
Born of the Spirit
051108
In the Power of the Spirit
012107
Much More to Tell You
053109
Spirit of Peace
052707
The Power of the Spirit
120907
The Spirit at Work in You
051505
Holy Week:
A Week Worth Remembering
040107
Come Home to the Cross
032810
This is Our Faith
031608
We Believe
041104
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
040404
You Know What Has Happened
040807
Jesus:
A Woman in Need of Love
022705
Christ the King
112501
Come to Me
070305
Fill Those Jars with Water
011710
Good Shepherd Sunday
050309
Good Shepherd Sunday
050706
How Can We Know the Way
042405
Jesus, Remember Me
112104
My Sister has Left Me by Myself
072201
Neither do I Condemn You
032804
Responding to a Need
011804
Something New Under the Sun
022606
The Gift of His Son
122103
The Lamb Will Shepherd Them
042907
The Passion of the Christ
032005
The Signs of the Lord
121204
We Live in the Risen Christ
032705
Welcoming Jesus
072207
While There is Time
031404
Lent:
Caught in the Act
032507
Come Home and Fast
030710
Come Home and Give Alms
031410
Don’t be Tempted
022507
Everything I Have is Yours
031807
Lent Tempted, but Faithful
022904
They Fell Silent
030407
Too Little, Too Late
031305
What Makes Lent Spiritual
022110
What’s Your Sign
030506
Written Upon Your Heart
040206
You Will Conquer Sin
021008
You Will See His Glory
021708
You Will See The Light
030208
Your Thirst Will Be Satisfied
022408
Lessons:
A Father’s Struggle
062109
A Good Mom
050805
A Lesson From My Dad
061905
A Mother’s Love Should be
Treasured
051406
An Epiphany of Sorts
010608
As Humans Think
091706
Awaken to God’s Peace
120504
Being Deceived
111404
Being Opened
090609
Blest Are They
020302
Blest are You
013005
Church Etiquette
091204
Come & Eat Breakfast
042504
Commands from the Lord
012906
Dazzling
080606
Denying Yourself
082805
Division in the Family
081901
Fear and Respect
101704
Filled With Expectations
011010
Giving Away Miracles
030605
Giving Thanks
101401
Go and Do the Same
071501
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
090207
I Forgave You
091105
I Mean to Stay at Your House
110407
Know and Go
061106
Lessons from Zacchaeus
110401
Light One Candle
050408
Lord, Will only a Few People by
Saved
082601
Love, Help and Peace
051307
Making Human Love Holy
021410
Paying Down a Debt
061707
Peter’s Primacy
042207
Preaching Repentance
052007
Putting Your Cards On The Table
022204
Raised from the Dead
021107
Reach for the Star
010205
Recovering Our Senses
062908
Remember What You Received
092901
Respect for the Dead
102801
Respecting the Life of the Family
100409
The Name of the Rose
021504
The Pastor’s Mite
110809
The Sin of Sodom
072504
The Spirit Will Teach You
051604
The Tabgha Experience
080308
The Transforming Cross
091408
This Brother of Yours
032104
Throwing Stones
032110
To Whom Shall We Go
082706
Up On My Grill
062704
Was It Ever Heard Of
060709
Weeds and Yeast
071705
What Are You Worth
062208
What Do You Want Met To Do For
Your
102509
What is an Epiphany
010806
What is Heaven Like
111101
What is Your Opinion
092505
What’s In It For Me
072405
When Did We See You
112308
When I was a Child
020104
Zeal for Your House
110908
Mary & Saints:
A God of the Living
111107
A More Excellent Way
013110
All Hallow’s Eve
103104
But Whom Am I
122406
Calling All Saints, All Souls,
All Fools
110605
Come Lord Jesus and Fill Us With
Joy
121309
Everything For the Glory of God
031509
Everything For the Glory of God
032209
God Proves His Love For Us
040509
Happy Feast Day
062407
Insulting the Saints
110109
New Heavens and a new Birth
120708
Queenship of Mary
082204
Sing With All the Saints in Glory
041209
The Importance of St. Matthew
092108
The Lesson of Saint Francis
092709
The Promise of What We Shall All
Become
081504
Understanding the Saints and the
Church
110704
Mass:
Behold the Lamb of God
012008
Patriotic Masses
070404
New Year’s Poem:
A New Year’s Poem
122709
A New Year’s Poem
122803
A New Year’s Poem
123001
A New Year’s Poem, 2005
122604
A New Year’s Poem, 2006
010106
A New Year’s Poem, 2007
123106
A New Year’s Poem, 2008
123007
A New Year’s Poem, 2009
122808
Prayers:
Changed by Prayer
030704
Come Home and Pray
022810
Free of Anxieties
020109
Gathered Together in My Name
090708
God Don’t Like Ugly
072907
I Closed My Eyes
092301
Increase Our Faith
100701
Just, Proud, Humble
102807
Loving as Christ Loves Us
050904
Pray Always Without Becoming
Weary
102101
Thanks Dad
062004
Too Busy for God
100905
Sacraments:
Stewards of the Sacraments
071804
The Sacraments of Life
081201
Those Whose Sins You Forgive
041507
Social Issues:
Blest Are They, Blest Are You
020308
Catholic Voting Issues, part 1
091904
Catholic Voting Issues, part 2
092604
Catholic Voting Issues, part 3
100304
Counting on Strangers
071507
Endowed by Their Creator
070509
Follow the Light
012708
Giving Good Things to Our
Children
072901
Giving to Caesar
101605
He will not speak on His own
060604
I Give You Praise, Father
070608
I Learned the Truth at Seventeen
101809
Increase Our Faith
It Begins with Sex
100106
Master, I Want to See
102906
Only This Foreigner
101407
Peace Because Good Planets are
Hard to Find
101208
The Evil Within
083009
The International Reunion
101908
The Stone Rejected
100508
This People Honors Me
090306
We Need the Poor
091006
What I Haven’t Done
021807
Wow
102206
Spirituality:
Hear, O Israel
110506
Tear Down the Barn
080501
The Good Wine
011407
You Are Lacking In One Thing
101109
St. Aloysius:
A Difficult Decision
040906
Crossing to the Other Side
062506
Gathering the Elect
111906
Invited to the Banquet
090201
My Evaluation
121105
My Grace is Sufficient
070906
One Year Later
092009
Our Time to Grow
080507
Statue Niches,
Opt. 1 Survey
080804
Statue Niches,
Option 1
080104
Time to Share My Burden
011809
Weddings in Church
082904
What We Did in His Name
060108
Why Do YOU Belong
102107
Stewardship:
$576,845
120207
13,149,000 Minutes
051709
A House Divided
081907
A Story of Stewardship Blessings
020506
A Tough Decision
091309
A Worthy Wife
111608
A Year of Favor from the Lord
012504
All Ten Were Healed
101004
Are You Envious of God
091805
By Another Route
010409
Calculating the Cost
090907
Casting Out Demons
071209
Come After Me
012206
Come Away
071909
Come, You Who Are Blessed
112005
Constructing a Millennium
Campaign
090901
Divine Mercy
042306
Enter the Mystery
041804
Everything For the Glory of God
021509
Fish in a Barrel
111206
Forgiving Sins
021906
Fundraising & Stewardship
071104
Gathering the Fragments
072609
Give an Explanation
042708
God Prepares the Way
112705
God Prepares the Way, Respond
121805
Half Empty or Half Full
073105
Have You Heard the Call
012702
How to Become a Steward
061205
I am a Sinful Man
020407
In My First Book
052409
It’s Not a Secret
052106
It’s Time to Pay the Rent
100205
Leaving the Boat
012305
Magi Appeared from the East
010602
Making All Things New
050607
My Messenger Ahead of You
121607
Neglecting God’s Word
042008
Not One Stone Left Atop Another
111807
Now We Must Celebrate and Rejoice
091607
O Ye of Little Faith
080705
One Year Later
092009
Only When I Talk
012807
Owe Nothing
090405
Prepare a Full Account of your
Stewardship
092307
Responsibility
062809
Rest A While
072306
Salt of the Earth
020605
Seminary Sunday
020804
Sending Us Out
071606
Stewards of Hope & Healing
070206
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU
103005
The Abundant Harvest
070807
The Check Please
062605
The Food of the Children
081405
The Gift of Baptism
011109
The Gift of Justice
120703
The Gifts of the Magi
010404
The Lord has the Gift of
Redemption
113003
The Quality of Mercy
033008
The Question Not Asked
072708
The S Word
050105
What Do You Have
061007
What Have We Shared
081207
Who Am I
102404
With Me in Paradise
112507
With Persecutions
101506
Would God Really Do That
031206
You Called Me
011506
You’re Doing a Good Job
111305
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