Fr. John Rutten shares his homilies, speaks of the things that provoke him, and encourages us to grow in our belief that Christ dwells among us.
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Is faith still relevant to young people? These friends of the St. Thomas More Newman Center want to share with you and anyone who will listen that Jesus Christ and the Church are relevant to their lives. Surround yourself with these clouds of Witnesses!
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Open Wider to Open “Eyes”
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People are blind and we are called to have patience with the ignorant. How do we help? Add more points of awareness in order to see the truth more clearly.Door Fr. John Rutten
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DDays is homecoming week. We consider this University a home because of the relationships we built. Ultimately our Home is Heaven and that too is a result of a relationship with Jesus. What gets in our way from saying Yes to Him!Door Fr. John Rutten
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We’re Lost: Man and Woman
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When your lost, it’s sometimes easy to keep going forward. However, at a certain point one has to stop and turn around.Door Fr. John Rutten
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The St Thomas More Newman Center celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first Mass offered! Friendship, marriage, games, study, difficulties, retreats, and sacraments. All the ways God has blessed his people!Door Fr. John Rutten
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We need to create cultures that cause the best for people to happen and make it difficulty for bad things to happen. This is the case in our state.Door Fr. John Rutten
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How do miracles play a role in the life of Jesus and the Church? What is the reason for them and why are there not more? Have you experience one?Door Fr. John Rutten
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Worth listening toDoor Fr. John Rutten
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Is a Christian different in the way of operating in the world?Door Fr. John Rutten
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Student Welcome - Gathering Family Together
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The 12 Tribes were dispersed and further from the Lord. Joshua gathered them together again. The Disciples were given a great gift to feed the family (Eucharist) many left but the 12 Apostles stayed. We all are now tempted to move out but God gathers us. To stay is possible when we look at our history and the miracles we’ve seen.…
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Life hacks, Rules for Life, or hearts of life…man is always attempting to attain qualities it does not possess. Jesus desires to give them to us in His very self! Do you receive, aware of this? What do you say to His words?Door Fr. John Rutten
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2nd Divine Feeding, Human Way
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Why is it? The Eucharist isn’t more central to peoples lives? No one has told them! They don’t see it effect in their life. They don’t have a great enough need or an awareness of their spiritual hunger.Door Fr. John Rutten
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1st Divine Feeding, Human Way
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We are made to come back into relationship with God through food!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Explaining this weekend‘s reason for posting to homilies.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Wealth isn’t the problem. Losing the relationship with God is, and this can happen no matter how much one possesses. What is your relationship with things?Door Fr. John Rutten
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How do you respond when corrected? Our initial response is important to pay attention to. Why does it matter? Listen in…Door Fr. John Rutten
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What do circular saws and bells have in common? Listen in…Door Fr. John Rutten
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How often we want to run from the storms, but Jobe and the apostles and our own experience revealed to us that God addresses us in the midst of the storms. Neil, stay still, and ask for him.Door Fr. John Rutten
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A visit to the Rockies and Mass for Summer Projects.Door Fr. John Rutten
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People have an intuition that blood connection is a means of something mysterious yet human. The source of connecting to a “life source.” All of this is pointing toward what God will do by offering the Body and Blood of his son Jesus.Door Fr. John Rutten
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The visitor has had an Important role in human culture and for the Christian it is a window into understanding the Visitor, who is God. This first journey of Mary, and God within her, to visit Elizabeth is the beginning of our own experience of the same dynamic: God visits through a people!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Homily on Solemnity of PentecostDoor Fr. John Rutten
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Wedding of James and Kenna Kleinschmit
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The wedding homily for James and Kenna Kleinschmit. Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Bow Valley, NE on May 18, 2024Door Fr. John Rutten
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Ascension - A Season to Look and Long
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Ever been on a spiritual high point, only to end up feeling like you’re starting over again? The Apostles have been on a rollercoaster of Grace! After the most I credible fact: He Rose from the Dead…they don’t get their question answered and He leaves. Now they start again and need to await His Power.…
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Love is connected to “law” in today’s readings: to be upright and to follow the commandments is the request of God. But he wants us to do so by receiving His love and remaining in His goodness. Do you know His goodness as the means of being able to live the law?Door Fr. John Rutten
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Abiding - Holding on to the Mass
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Jesus tells us to abide in him. To abide is not a passive reality but to stick with, hold on to, obey. He is saying this in the midst of the Last Supper, where he institutes the Eucharist and tells the apostles to do the same. For us to abide in Jesus is to hold on to the celebration of the Eucharist. And to do so is to hold on to the whole of the …
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Look at Us! Received into the Church
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A world that can’t look up, and Peter and John walk in and the lame man is healed. When others start looking to them, they say “it’s in the name of Jesus! Look to Him! Today we welcomed 11 people into the sacraments! A people who together witness to looking at Him.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Together and Recognizing Him
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From Abraham until today, God gathers people together. He does so to reveal Himself and in doing so we become more together. More together within ourselves and more fully together in friendship with each other!Door Fr. John Rutten
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before divine Mercy, we see a possibility of a human mercy on behalf of the church. More importantly than providing houses, is to provide the “house“ of friendship. and when we do so, and find ourselves moved with sympathy, we become instruments of divine mercy.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Easter - Cross and Candle
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The cross and candle are signs to us of Jesus. We are here because of Jesus!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Palm Sunday begins Holy Week. It’s a full week and all the liturgies together help us understand the life Christ has given for us!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Prison to Praise - Reid Holiday
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Listen to Reid Holiday share his witness about ending up with a life sentence to prison where he encountered the power of God and today is a free man!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Water is the connection of hydrogen and oxygen- a connection that makes life possible for humanity. So necessary is it that we all must connect ourselves with water. god though desires to use our endless needs to help us connect with something needed: our heart which needs to connect with God.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Connecting: Little Lights and Dramatic Moments
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There are dramatic moments in this weekends Readings. However they can’t be understood without seeing all the little moments in the past that are connected. The Father holds us in his hands and is always connecting more!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Three Ways the Holy Spirit Works
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Today’s Gospel says the Spirit drove Jesus to the desert where he was tempted. Is this how God works? Driving us to evil? Listen and recognize the importance of knowing where you are at spiritually, in order to know how the Holy Spirit will work with you.Door Fr. John Rutten
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What if eternal LIFE is a paradox? To attain it, we must die! So it is!Door Fr. John Rutten
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We Encounter the Risen Lord and life becomes beautiful and purposeful. However, have you considered the importance of dying to things of life, even as a follower of Christ? We must die to our will or our way, then we begin to see Resurrection! Things happening that are clearly of Him!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Authority of Jesus and the Church
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Haven’t many institutions lost authority? Work places can no longer dictate rules and sports can be ruled by the best players. When authority breaks down, we begin to recognize what it means that Christ and the Church have authority. This kind of authority speaks to the heart and the needs of humanity. Then we discover that the other authority is p…
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All Vocations are Sacrificial *
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Do you think of the priesthood as men who have sacrificed a wife and family? Is there a hint that somehow a priest gave something up that was really good? It’s actually true! But it’s also true that the vocation of marriage is sacrificial love. Marriage requires giving up— to love, to sacrifice for the good of others.…
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What makes it possible for Samuel and the Apostles to encounter God? What makes it possible for us to hear His voice, too? Is it possible to follow Jesus today? Listen to a necessary complement for your growth. 2nd Sunday of Ordinary TimeDoor Fr. John Rutten
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Epiphany - Magi Look up and down and to God
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The Magi teach us to Let our desires and search keep us looking up. But the search must have us looking down at where we are placed. Then when we see God, to bow in adoration.Door Fr. John Rutten
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A Message from Fr John - 3rd Week Advent
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A few words of reflection on reading Thomas Kempis this morning from – the Imitation of Christ – some powerful words really struck me.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Waiting for the Lord Waiting for You!
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Waiting is a human dynamic but the Christian waits for Christ to appear. Why wait?Door Fr. John Rutten
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Why Holy Days of Obligation?
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why should we be “obligated” to another day of Mass? It only feels like an obligation when our lives are in need of reordering (even if just a bit) more toward God!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Pay Attention to Your Part
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1st Sunday of AdventDoor Fr. John Rutten
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Following with Friends: Mary Scharpenburg
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Mary, graduates in a few days and after four years connected to the Newman Center, she shares how faith has grown in her and how friends have helped her follow Jesus! She’ll be heading to a parish in days and parishioners will HEAR from her! Listen in!Door Fr. John Rutten
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Raise the Roof Gratitude List & Work with God
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We have blown the Roof of this place and there is a list of people to thank! Also the weekend homily shows us the dignity of work and how Hod wants us to work and allow Him to make it abundant.Door Fr. John Rutten
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Raise the Roof and The Lamps
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Raise the Roof, an effort to eliminate the debt caused by a roof replacement, is detailed. For all who appreciate these homilies and the social media presence, it is possible because of my ministry! Please prayerfully consider a donation! Whats with the lamps that are ready and what about those that are not?…
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Witness: Jeff Micono - Pray as you Can!
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Jeff Micono shares how faith has been a part of his life and how the University of South Dakota's St. Thomas more Newman Center has impacted his life, friendship, and faith!Door Fr. John Rutten
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A little discussion about last weeks events and the students who participated. The body is the means of God bringing peace into this world. First into ourselves and then to the relationships closest to us. Then that can impact the world.Door Fr. John Rutten
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28th Sunday - October 15, 2023
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The wedding banquet. Sent to invite others. Who remains and who is kicked out? Where will you be? Where are you now?Door Fr. John Rutten
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