Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
What is Father Dan Thinking? 11-24-24
Priestly Spirituality and Catholic Evangelism. The SCP that you’ll often find at the end of my name stands for the Society of Catholic...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Dec 41 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 12-8-24
All Saints’ was blessed last Wednesday to open our doors to our street parishioners for the annual Pranksgiving Dinner, which is a...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Nov 195 min read
Sermon for 26th after Pentecost 11-17-24
I realized I could pass as a New Yorker, or at least as a Manhattanite, when people started asking me for directions. Sure, I dressed...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Nov 112 min read
Post-election Pastoral Letter 11-10-24
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Nov 44 min read
Of Saints & Scary Clowns - Sermon for 11-3-24
The will in people to survive is strong. Last Thursday during my weekly night-walk in the Tenderloin, I stopped in a dive bar on my route...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Oct 173 min read
Sermon for 21st after Pentecost 10-13-24
“Another idol has replaced me…a golden one!” Ebenezer Scrooge, a young man making his way in the world, was late to meet his betrothed...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Oct 93 min read
Sermon for Michaelmas 9-29-24
† The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday that 133 people were diagnosed with HIV in our city in 2023 – the lowest number in...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Sep 184 min read
Sermon for 17th after Pentecost 9-15-24
“STFU!” † When asked about the secret of her happiness, one Benedictine sister said her “serenity came when she realized she didn’t have...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Sep 183 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 9-15-24
There I was, waiting in line at Gus’s market with a few groceries for the evening’s supper, when a man about my age came in, saw me...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Sep 45 min read
Sermon for 15th after Pentecost 9-1-24
“Fuck around and find out” One Sunday afternoon, a year or two ago, I sat on the front stoop of the rectory, tired after a morning’s...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Sep 42 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 9-8-24
If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Aug 284 min read
Sermon for 14th after Pentecost 8-25-24
“Baptism doesn’t play – but it does promise” † “ Daddy was an old-time preacher man. He preached the word of God throughout the land....
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Aug 281 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 9-1-24
If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss, O Lord, who could stand? – Psalm 130:2 Selective enforcement. Today on my...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Aug 282 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 8-25-24
As I write this, it is two days before the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, and I am preparing my sermon for the Vigil Mass of the feast,...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Aug 283 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking 8-11-24
“All guests who arrive should be received as Christ,” says Saint Benedict in the 53rd chapter of his rule. “The superior and the...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Jul 315 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 8-4-24
She’s homeless, again. Her husband of a decade is a mean drunk and forced her out of the apartment that they shared for a couple of years...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Jul 314 min read
Sermon for 10th after Pentecost
† “Use your imagination, Peter!” The 1991 movie “Hook” starred Dustin Hoffman as the eponymous captain and our beloved...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Jul 173 min read
What is Father Dan Thinking? 7-21-24
Last Saturday, as you no doubt know by now, an attempt was made on the life of the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania....
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Jul 175 min read
Sermon for 8th after Pentecost 7-14-24
† Theirs wasn’t a match made in heaven, Herod’s and Herodias’s. Like many marriages of the rich and powerful throughout history, theirs...
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Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid SCP
Jun 134 min read
Sermon for 3rd after Pentecost 6-9-24
† “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. I don’t...
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