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Homily - 08/29/2026
United Through Love
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Preached at Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House during an evening celebrating marital love, Fr. Michael explores the union of man and wife through the love of Christ.
The reading
Mark 6:30–34
The Apostles gathered together with Jesus
and reported all they had done and taught.
He said to them,
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.”
People were coming and going in great numbers,
and they had no opportunity even to eat.
So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.
People saw them leaving and many came to know about it.
They hastened there on foot from all the towns
and arrived at the place before them. ...