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08Jan

Reflection for Sunday – January 12, 2025

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Readings Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7; Acts 10: 34-38; Luke 3: 15-16, 21-22 Preacher: Sonja Livingston While thinking about the week’s readings,... Read More →

01Jan

Reflection for Sunday – January 5, 2025

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Readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 2-3a, 5-6; Matthew 2: 1-12 Preacher: Susan K. Roll Have you ever set out to... Read More →

24Dec

Reflection for Sunday – December 29, 2024

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Readings: Sirach 3: 2-6, 12-14; Colossians 3: 12-21; Luke 2: 41-52 Preacher: Nancy DeRycke There’s a fable about 2 folks walking... Read More →

20Dec

Reflection for Sunday – December 22, 2024

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Readings: Micah 5: 1-4a; Hebrews 10: 5-10; Luke 1: 39-45 Preacher: Gloria Ulterino I was there. At the home of the... Read More →

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God’s Word Many Voices continues and celebrates the 40 plus year history of lay preaching in the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y. This website offers our ever-expanding roster of gifted and highly educated lay preachers a forum to share diverse viewpoints that inform and inspire our readers. We offer these weekly homilies to nurture the faith of our readers and to bring health and vitality to our church.

Women Deacons in the First Millennium of the Church

Where and how did women deacons begin? Some might say, “Oh, it began with Phoebe. You know, she’s the one that Paul praised in his letter to the Romans more….

Phoebe’s Story

In case you missed it, September 3^rd is St. Phoebe’s Feast Day. I’m guessing that you missed it. I’m also guessing that you may well be wondering this: Who, exactly, is Phoebe? And why is she considered so important that she’s given a Feast Day? More…

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Synod for Synodality has been Extended for another Year!

Pope Francis announced that the 16th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place in two sessions: the first from 4 to 29 October 2023; the second in October 2024. This extension of the synodal journey is meant to be an opportunity – as Pope Francis said – “to foster an understanding of synodality as a constitutive dimension of the Church, and to help everyone to live it in a journey of brothers and sisters who bear witness to the joy of the Gospel”.

Let us therefore take advantage of this to continue our synodal conversion and put into practice what we can do, as of now, to make ecclesial communities more and more synodal.

Sr. Barbara Moore, RSM Blog

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(Holy) Order in the Church!

Fr. Ed Palumbos reflects on the Sacrament of Holy Orders…I was ordained in 1972 when the teaching of the Second Vatican council was still unfolding and being implemented in the parishes that I’ve served over the past 50 years. More…