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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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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, September 21, 2025 "...generosity to the poor is what distinguishes a good rich person from an evil one." |
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Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Friday, September 19, 2025 Once it really sinks in that we don't really own anything, that it all really belongs to God — and by that I mean everything, not just our possessions but also our health, our job, our children, our reputation ... it's all in God's hands. We just have the use of these things temporarily and will one day be required to give an accounting for our stewardship of all that God has entrusted to us. |
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Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs 2025 Published: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 "Both bishops and deacons should not be drunkards or lovers of money." |
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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, September 7, 2025 I"t required that I do my part to make the world a better place like Dr. King did,..." |
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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Saturday, August 30, 2025 "...there should be no applause after any liturgical song or instrumental piece, no matter how beautifully done." |
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Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary 2025 Published: Friday, August 15, 2025 Today we have the Assumption of Mary, the first person to share fully in Jesus’ victory. One day, the rest of us who are faithful will also rise to share in his victory with her forever in heaven. |
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, August 3, 2025 There is an old proverb that said that "money is like sea-water, the more a person drinks, the thirstier he becomes." |
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75th anniversary of Carmelite Monastery 2025 Published: Sunday, August 3, 2025 The Bible says those who put their trust in the things of this world have been deceived by a mirage that promises what it cannot deliver. |
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Friday, July 18, 2025 "This is also true in our relations with each other: people often use religious language for non-religious purposes." |
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Jubilee Mass at St. Scholastica Monastery 2025 Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 "...is the love with which you do your work, especially when it involves serving others." |
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Jubilarian Mass at Holy Angels Convent 2025 Published: Friday, July 11, 2025 Every commitment binds a person to a certain way of life, and thereby excludes certain other ways of life. |
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Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles 2025 Published: Saturday, June 28, 2025 We Catholics take the pope's "power of the keys" so seriously that we represent it on the Vatican flag. |
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Catholic Charities Summer Institute Mass 2025 Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 "...we do not have the right to prevent people from exercising their God-given right to migrate when circumstances so require." |
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Wednesday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time 2025 Published: Sunday, June 22, 2025 Jesus turns every new challenge into an opportunity to make our pearl more beautiful. |
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 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. |
