Fr. Mark Hamlet

Christmas Prayer

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 15:29:47 +0000

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, “Your God is King!” Christmas is so big it was seen centuries before it happened. Isaiah said those words seven centuries before the birth of Jesus. Isaiah saw what God […]

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The Visitation

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:38:53 +0000

“Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.” Why? Why did Mary go to Elizabeth? Elizabeth lived with her husband, the priest Zechariah in Ein Karem, about 5 miles from Jerusalem. That was close enough for the […]

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The End of Time

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:30:33 +0000

Jesus said to his disciples: “In those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. “And then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’with […]

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50th Anniversary Reunion

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:38:14 +0000

50th Anniversary Reunion Univ. of Dallas Class 1968 My name is Fr. Mark Hamlet. I am here to boast with my classmates, about our 50th anniversary as students of the University of Dallas, and the many gifts of wisdom we received as the class of 1968. I had converted to the Catholic Faith at age […]

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Two Become One Flesh

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:28:47 +0000

The LORD God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” God knows us better than we know ourselves. He always has. He chose our partners, women and men, to be together. All of human history has witnessed the truth of God’s plan. “This […]

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Faithfulness and Betrayal

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:19:03 +0000

I am angry. I am hurt, deeply. I am experiencing disillusionment with my Church. The better part of the last two weeks I was on pilgrimage in the Holy Land with our Bishop Vasquez, another priest and over 30 other members of our Diocese. Then, last week the news surfaced regarding of Cardinal McCarrick and, […]

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Bread of Life

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:42:32 +0000

Hunger is one of the most powerful motivators in human life. Look at the way hunger motivates you. Hunger will make people do strange and difficult things. Fear of hunger is also a major motivator. The Israelites who followed Moses into the desert, out of Egypt, began to realize just how far out they had […]

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Priorities 2018

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:36:41 +0000

There is this ministry in Austin, called “Mobile Loaves and Fishes”. They feed the homeless from trucks that go to the homeless. The homeless do not go to them. (They are also the founders of “Community First”, a community on the eastern boundary of our parish devoted to providing homes and dignity to the homeless. […]

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The Nativity of John the Baptist

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:44:02 +0000

John the Baptist is such an important person in our faith. It has been said that you can’t get to Jesus except through John. John was the last great prophet of the Old Testament, and the first prophet of the New Testament. All four Gospels tell of John the Baptist. John’s life summarizes all of […]

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The Mustard Seed

Fr. Mark Hamlet — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:12:37 +0000

I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. Ezekiel is using plant symbols, a mighty tree, in his prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. […]

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