Deacon Bob Evans
Make a Difference in Our Times
Hostility, anger, division; it’s not by chance that we hear the words of Sirach for the First Reading on the 24th Sunday of Ordinary...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Are We Ready?
The people of God have always been at odds with the world. Sometimes the conflict is very intense, sometimes not. I’m confident that many...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 19
- 3 min
Facing an Unsettled World
Facing a very unsettled world without feeling hopeless is one of the biggest challenges many of our young people deal with these days....
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 6
- 9 min
A Chance to See it Anew
Recently, several people have asked me about annulments, so I thought it might be helpful if I addressed that subject in some detail here...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- May 23
- 4 min
What Are We to Do?
Jesus’ words beginning with: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations” [Mt 28:19a]. are often referred to as the Great...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Feb 28
- 3 min
All Belong to Christ
In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. after speaking in very welcoming terms in the Beatitudes, He followed with a series of statements framed...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Our Hope is in the Lord
My latest post was just published in the online magazine, Catholic Exchange. It’s titled: “The Babylon Captivity teaches: Our Hope is in...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
Stand Up and be Counted
As you may know, the Gospels were not written for the purpose of teaching history but rather to teach faith lessons using stories from...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Nov 16, 2022
- 1 min
Walking the Parables of Jesus
Friends, yesterday I was interviewed for WCAT-TV in St. Louis by Mrs. Kiki Latimer, who teaches Homiletics at Holy Apostles Seminary in...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
The Wisdom of Love
It had been only a few weeks after her husband, Charlie, had died that Michael was visiting Charlie’s wife, Katie, in a nursing home in...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Mar 28, 2022
- 5 min
The Invitation
The wicker creaked as he let the full weight of his 41-year-old frame into the chair. Bernard’s favorite moment of the day was when he...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Your Chance to be Heard
There is something wonderful going on in the Catholic Church right now that I would like to make you aware of. Pope Francis has called a...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
The Need for the Sacraments
As we read the Gospel for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time [cf. Luke 6:27-38], we can almost hear people in the crowd grumbling: “He...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
Thank God Jesus was There
I’m a little “under the weather” recovering from Covid, so I thought I’d share something a little different in this blog post. Below is a...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
We are People of Hope
The First Reading for the Fourth Sunday in Advent this year comes from the Book of the prophet Micah [cf. Micah 5:1-4a]. In the time of...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Nov 23, 2021
- 3 min
Will We Have the Courage?
Friends, the Bible is full of stories of God’s revelation of Himself in the lives of human beings. But they’re not stories filled with...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Oct 18, 2021
- 4 min
Seek the Lord While He May be Found
As we draw closer to the end of Ordinary Time, there are some really profound lessons in our First Readings. And the First Reading [see...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Aug 23, 2021
- 3 min
Will I Leave Jesus, or Will I Stay?
At first there were murmurs, in the back. Then it started: harsh voices here, a burst of laughter there – then, full scale uproar. “What...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
Come Away for a While
I know that we don’t often think of it this way for we are so accustomed to seeking meaning in the world around us that we fail to...
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Deacon Bob Evans
- Jun 20, 2021
- 3 min
Reaching Out
In the summer of 1936, American author, Ernest Hemingway, was working as a journalist in Madrid, Spain for the newspaper, El Liberal. On...
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