Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C September 25, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community, Palm Springs, CA Rev. David Justin Lynch Amos 6:1a;4-7 | Psalm 148:7-10 I Timothy 6:11-16 | Luke 16:19-31 +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Many people have told me that I ask too many questions. They tell me that rather than engaging in a conversation, they feel that I am interrogating them….
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C September 05 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Deacon Sharon Kay Talley Wisdom 9:13-18b | Psalm 90:3-6;12-14;17 Philemon 9-10;12-17 | Luke 14:25-33 +in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Do you want to be a disciple of Jesus? If so, Jesus explains in today’s Gospel from Luke what it takes to be a true disciple. There are basically two components involved:…
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C August 28, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Sirach 3:17-18;20;28-30 | Psalm 68:4-7;10-11 Hebrews 12:18-19;22-24a | Luke 14:1;7-14 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. Greenwich is the East Coast equivalent of Indian Wells, California. I attended both private and public high schools, but the attitude of the students at…
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C August 07 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Deacon Sharon Kay Talley Wisdom 18:6-9 | Psalm 33:1;12;18-22 Hebrews 11:1-2;8-12 | Luke 12:35-40 +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Have you ever fallen asleep while involved in an activity or event when you should have been focusing your attention on it? When I was in my twenties and teaching school, some…
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C July 24, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Genesis 18:20-32| Psalm 138:1-3;6-8 Colossians 2:12-14 | Luke 11:1-13 +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Last Sunday, Deacon Sharon preached an elegant and incisive homily about holy hospitality as taught in the stories of Abraham, Sarah, and the angels at the Oaks of Mamre and that of the…
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C July 17, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Deacon Sharon Kay Talley Genesis 18:1-10a | Psalm 15:2-5 I Corinthians 1:24-28 | Luke 10:38-42 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. Have you ever gotten so involved with something that you forgot why you were even doing it? Father Mark Lin told a story to his congregation about a father…
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C July 10, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Psalm 69:17;17;30-31;33-34;36-37 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. As many of you know, I was a lawyer. Over the twenty years I practiced, I heard all the lawyer jokes and all the put-downs directed at lawyers. I am now permanently retired…
Feast of Corpus Christi – Year C June 19, 2022 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Genesis 14:18-20 | Psalm 110:1-4 I Corinthians 11:23-26 | Luke 9:11-17 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Welcome to our celebration! Traditionally, the priest or bishop who presided over the Mass was called the “celebrant.” But I am not the only person here to celebrate. All of us…