Aug 23
Fr Louis Scurti interviews Bishop Christopher Coyne, Bishop of the Diocese of Burlington, VT on topics of Communications, Preaching and Digital Media and Evangelization. Bishop was featured in an October 2016 issue of America Magazine and the article inspired three conversations with Bishop Coyne. (1)
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Aug 17
Fr Louis Scurti interviews Ed Lucas, blind sports reporter and author of SEEING HOME. The series of Interviews continues as Fr Louis Scurti hears about the celebrities he met.
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Aug 15
INTRODUCTION:A BRIEF REFLECTION
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US? The Homily of the Assumption
If God chooses someone to be His mother and be born in the Flesh, she is going to be a Special Person…as was Mary! She protected her Son, from the birth to the grave, and beyond! God had to be pleased with her….and would not let her body undergo corruption! That’s what we believe, declared in 1950 by Pope Pius as the Assumption of Mary, body & soul into heaven at her death!
What it means to us is that we need to keep close to Jesus and keep Jesus close to us…to achieve a meaningful, eternal life!
check out the scriptures of the day:
Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
1 Cor 15:20-27
Lk 1:39-56
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Aug 14
It’s when things are the roughest that we think He’s not with us, Jesus that is……That was the case of the Apostles….as well at 3 am when their boat was being tossed around…They knew FEAR….We know what Fear is….when we feel alone, when we yell out and there is no one to listen to us or rescue us. However, if we have an intimate relationship with the Lord, He is there to rescue us!
Peter was in that position. He was in FEAR, terrified, and recognized his friend, Jesus, who reached out to him and rescued him!
As God and Man Jesus reaches out to us when we are in Fear….but we have to have that intimate relationship with Him! Through Prayer, intimate conversation, He comes to us to relieve our Fear.
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Aug 14
It’s when things are the roughest that we think He’s not with us, Jesus that is……That was the case of the Apostles….as well at 3 am when their boat was being tossed around…They knew FEAR….We know what Fear is….when we feel alone, when we yell out and there is no one to listen to us or rescue us. However, if we have an intimate relationship with the Lord, He is there to rescue us!
Peter was in that position. He was in FEAR, terrified, and recognized his friend, Jesus, who reached out to him and rescued him!
As God and Man Jesus reaches out to us when we are in Fear….but we have to have that intimate relationship with Him! Through Prayer, intimate conversation, He comes to us to relieve our Fear.
For more thoughts on this Gospel, please go the the Homily, DOES JESUS HEAR US? https://youtu.be/ZmBVpnzFWJk
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Aug 10
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In honor of Fr Hovan's 10th Anniversary of Ordination, this first of 5 Videos of his interview with Fr Louis Scurti, is being aired.
This is one of five Interviews Fr Louis had with Fr Hovan at the St Hagop Armenian Church, Pinellas Park FL. The subsequent interviews will be aired in April and May, 2018 on
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Aug 06
Fr Louis Scurti presents the Homily of Transfiguration, focusing on the Father’ satisfaction with His Son, the Son of Man.
This homily was delivered at St. Cecilia’s Church, Clearwater, Florida
BRIEF REFLECTION ON THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS
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Aug 03
FR LOUIS SCURTI SHARES THE SCRIPTURES AT MASS AT ST. CECILIA’S CHURCH, CLEARWATER, FL.
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Aug 02
Fr Louie Scurti interviews Ed Lucas, blind sports reporter and author of SEEING HOME.
Ed was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ, not far from where Fr Louis lived. He achieved his goal of becoming a Yankee broadcaster with the help of
many Yankees, including Phil Rizutto!
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Jul 30
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Fr Louis Scurti presents the Homily of the 17th Sunday Ordinary time,
Are we Fish or Junk? based on the Scriptures of of 1 Kings 3: 5-12, Romans 8: 29-30 and Matthew’s Gospel, 13:44-52.,
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For a BRIEF REFLECTION before this Homily
This Homily was presented at St. Cecilia’s Church, CLearwater Florida http://www.stceceliachurch.org/
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