NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR BAugust 09 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch 1 Kings 19:4-8 Psalm 34:2-9 Ephesians 4:30-5:2 John 6:41-51 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Sometimes we hear incredible statements that astound us, that are simply not believable based on what we know. We react by thinking the person who made the statements knows more than we do, or is…

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME  YEAR B August 02, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Exodus 16:2-4;12-15  Psalm 75:3-4;23-25;54 Ephesians 4:17-24  John 6:24-35 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Have you ever made bread? I have. One mixes together flour, water, salt, sugar, oil, and yeast to make the dough. One then kneads the dough, shapes it into a loaf, and puts it into a…

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME July 26, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch 2 K Kings 4:42-44 Psalm 145:10-11;15-18 Ephesians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.               We have all been hungry at one time or another. Every living being has experienced hunger. I am usually very hungry after Mass.  Those of us with dogs and cats as part…

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B July 19, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 23 Ephesians 2:13-18 Mark 6:30-34 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.         We’ve heard relentlessly from preachers, sociologists and psychologists that humans are social animals, that we are meant to live in communities, and that aloneness is pathological. People who’ve been single for many years past…

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B July 12, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Palm Springs, California Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Amos 7:12-15 Psalm 85:9-14 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:7-13 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.         Beeper and I recently got back from a vacation that took us to Emeryville, California, Denver, Colorado, Keystone, South Dakota (where we saw Mount Rushmore), Chicago, Illinois, and Saint Louis, Missouri….

TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME June 20, 2015Church of the Beloved, Northglenn, ColoradoRev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Job 38:1; 8-11 Psalm 107:23-26; 28-31 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.        For those of you who don’t know me, I am the Pastor of Saint Cecilia Catholic Community in Palm Springs, California, a place with triple-digit temperatures, very little rain, and no snow, ever….

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI June 07, 2015 St. Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Exodus 16:2-15;31-34. Psalm: 105:23-24;37-42 Cor: 10:16-17. Gospel: John 6:41-56 + In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. A few years ago, right here in Palm Springs, I had an encounter with a sidewalk  evangelist who saw the cross on my shirt-collar and asked if I was a Christian. I said “Yes”. He then asked me,…

TRINITY SUNDAY – YEAR B May 31, 2015 Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Deuteronomy 4:32-34; 39-40 Psalm 33:4-6; 9; 18-20; 22 Romans 8:14-17 Matthew 28:16-20        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.        That sounds very appropriate for Trinity Sunday, doesn’t it? I begin my homilies that way because being a Trinitarian Christian is important to me.  Not all Christians are Trinitarian. Our Unitarian sisters…