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Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
Bishop Taylor Homily Library
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor celebrates Mass across Arkansas and beyond. This library features the homilies delivered from March 2014 to the present. To listen to earlier homilies, please visit the bishop's Homily Archive.
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2025 Published: Sunday, June 22, 2025 We think of blood as just one very important component in a living body, but to the biblical mentality, the blood was itself alive and was what gave life to the body. |
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2022 Opening Mass for National Eucharistic Revival Published: Saturday, June 18, 2022 The Eucharist should draw us into Jesus’ very act of self-giving, such that we increasingly give of ourselves to God and to others in union with Jesus. We offer ourselves in union with Jesus to the Father from the altar during Mass, and having done so, we proceed to offer ourselves in union with Jesus to the Father in loving service. |
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2020 Published: Sunday, June 14, 2020 What you and I receive at Communion retains the appearance and taste of bread and wine, but that’s no longer what it is. By means of the words of consecration, Jesus changes them into his very own Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. |
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2015 Published: Sunday, June 7, 2015 And this one-time bloody sacrifice of his Body on Calvary is repeated every time we celebrate the Eucharist, the unbloody sacrifice of his Body and Blood on our altar and received by us in Communion. |
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 2014 Published: Saturday, June 21, 2014 What we really are is “countercultural” in a culture that is profoundly sick. |
