Fr. Joe Dailey
Episodes
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 21 B
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textYou might recognize her signature teaching. “But all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 20 B
17 Aug 2024
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Send us a text“The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 19 B
10 Aug 2024
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Send us a textWe find Elijah at a vulnerable moment; it has begun to dawn on him that the God who called him is not at all the God he thought he knew....
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 18 B
03 Aug 2024
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Send us a textAfter the Children of Israel are liberated from slavery in Egypt, the remainder of the Torah – almost four of the five books of Moses ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 17 B
27 Jul 2024
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Send us a textOnly John tells us that it was a young boy who offered his meager lunch. The Israelites wandered 40 years in the wilderness; the actual ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 16 B
20 Jul 2024
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Send us a textThe one who is the true Joshua/Yeshua, the one whose name means “Yahweh saves,” has come amongst his sheep. In today's Gospel, ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 15 B
13 Jul 2024
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Send us a text"Before laying the world’s foundation, God chose us in Christ." When God began creating the universe with galaxies and nebul...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 14 B
06 Jul 2024
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Send us a text“Is this not the brother of James and Joses?” In Hebrew, Jacob and Joseph. Jacob of course was the father of twelve sons, Joseph bei...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 13 B
29 Jun 2024
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Send us a textThe woman's fear proves a threshold to her faith. She knows what has happened to her; she falls down before Jesus and tells him all...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 12 B
22 Jun 2024
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Send us a textIn the night, the disciples seem to have forgotten that Jesus is the one who called them to cross to the other side. The whole time they...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 11 B
15 Jun 2024
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Send us a textIt’s a bit of a stretch to imagine a mustard plant with branches large enough for the birds of the sky to dwell in its shade, but the ...
Homily for the 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time, B
08 Jun 2024
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Send us a textInside the house, Mark tells us there are so many people, they are not able to eat. The Greek text says they are not able to eat bread. ...
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, B
01 Jun 2024
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Send us a textJesus does not celebrate the meal with his family, nor does he just gather any of the disciples who happened to be around him. Mark make...
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Homily, B
25 May 2024
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Send us a textA song is both lyrics and melody. If you try to teach love just using words you’ll miss a big part of it, because love is something th...
Homily for Pentecost, B
18 May 2024
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Send us a text“To attempt one language instead of another is to make oneself a learner, a supplicant. It is an act of exploration and of hospitali...
Homily for the Ascension of the Lord, B
11 May 2024
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Send us a textIn our Reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the 11 disciples have no idea this is graduation day. They are still looking to Jesus to r...
Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter, B
04 May 2024
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Send us a textThe word translated “friend” is from the verb “to love.” So when Jesus speaks of friends, he is really saying “those who are l...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter, B
27 Apr 2024
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Send us a textThe language of pruning is also a metaphor for the passion. We see a similar image in John 12:24, where Jesus speaks of the seed tha...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter, B.
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“I lay down my life for the sheep.” Jesus goes before us, first to die, then to rise. Dying and rising is the pattern for all of us ...
Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, B
13 Apr 2024
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Send us a textThe idea of the separation of body and soul comes from Greek thought, which influenced early Christianity. Salvation was said to be remo...
Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, B
06 Apr 2024
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Send us a textHe showed them his hands and his side. . .Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.It was his wounds; that’s how they recogn...
Homily for Easter Sunday
30 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWhen Mary of Magdala came to the tomb on the first day of the week, while it was still dark; and saw that the stone had been taken away ...
Homily on the Passion of St. Mark
23 Mar 2024
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Send us a textI will be at St. Isidore this Sunday for all three Sunday morning Masses: 7:30/9:30/11:30 am; I will preside at the 7:30/9:30 am Masse...
The Passion of St. Mark
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA Narration of the Passion of our Lord, Jesus Christ, according to Mark. (New American Bible, revised edition)I will be at St. Isidore...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent, B
16 Mar 2024
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Send us a textIn bringing us back to the heart, God is calling us to the place that knows no separation. The heart knows what the mind can never under...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent, B
09 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWhen the Israelites looked at the serpent on a pole, they were healed. Right then. So when Jesus says, “Whoever believes in him may ...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, B
02 Mar 2024
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Send us a textListen to what John tells us chapter 1, verse 14. “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent, B
24 Feb 2024
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Send us a textThen Paul asks this question: "If God is for us, who can be against us? God who did not withhold his own Son, but handed him over f...
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent, B
17 Feb 2024
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Send us a textThere is a fascinating verse in the second reading: “Christ was brought to life in the Spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spi...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 6 B
10 Feb 2024
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Send us a textThere are many who prefer to steer clear of such people. Jesus is not one of them; by touching a leper, Jesus makes himself unclean. He ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 5 B
03 Feb 2024
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Send us a textMark has hidden the Resurrection in the first chapter of the Gospel, where it hadn’t even occurred to us to look for it. Where might y...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 4 B
27 Jan 2024
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Send us a textWhen Jesus speaks, we hear God’s voice; and when Jesus acts, we see God's action in the world. I have Mass on Sunday, Ja...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 3 B
20 Jan 2024
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Send us a textAvivah Zornberg, a contemporary Jewish biblical writer, suggests that “to flee from God is to refuse to stand between death and life; ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 2 B
13 Jan 2024
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Send us a textWe hear the story of the call of Simon Peter in the first chapter of John’s Gospel. Simon is given a new name, but it will take the en...
Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord
06 Jan 2024
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Send us a textThe Magi are the first humans to speak in Matthew’s Gospel, and their question sets the story in motion. Standing in front of the pupp...
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family, B
30 Dec 2023
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Send us a textSimeon recognizes the child as the fulfillment of God’s promise and he is ready to die in peace, "For my eyes have seen your salv...
Homily for Christmas Day, John 1:1-18
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn his Children’s book, “Sun Moon Star,” Kurt Vonnegut tells the Christmas story through the undeveloped eyes of the newborn baby ...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, B
23 Dec 2023
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Send us a textOn the front of the altar are the words: "Verbum Caro HIC Factum est." “This is where the word became flesh.” Not in the...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, B
16 Dec 2023
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Send us a textThis joy of mine has been made complete. He must increase; I must decrease.” (John 3:29-30)I have Mass on Sunday, December 17at St...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, B
09 Dec 2023
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Send us a textMark takes us back to another beginning in the Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1, the opening lines of the first book of the bible: &q...
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, B
02 Dec 2023
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Send us a textLike clay in the potters’ hands, we bear the finger prints of our maker. The God who gets his hands dirty: - “we are the clay and ...
Homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King
25 Nov 2023
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Send us a textIn the words of Gerard Manley Hopkins, “For Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 33 A
18 Nov 2023
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Send us a textThose who work the land know that all true wealth comes from God, the source of rain, sunshine, seed, and soil. But this silver talent, ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 32 A
11 Nov 2023
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Send us a textBy taking these words to heart, our faces will reflect the radiance of the face of the Lord. The light comes from within and gives light...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 31 A
04 Nov 2023
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Send us a textIn today’s Gospel, Jesus is challenging religious behavior that focuses on externals, while avoiding any attempt at transformation of ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 30 A
28 Oct 2023
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Send us a textIn Matthew’s Gospel, when the Pharisees ask their last tricky question, Jesus does indeed out-trick them. But he doesn't do it by...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 29 A
21 Oct 2023
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Send us a textAn anonymous author wrote: “The image of God is not impressed on gold, but on the human race. Caesar asked that his image be on every ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 28 A
14 Oct 2023
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Send us a textPope Francis extended a similar invitation In his homily at the opening of the Synod. “Come, you who are weary and oppressed, come, ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 27 A
07 Oct 2023
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Send us a textGod does not put any miserable wretches to death. In taking the place of the one who is cast out, Jesus suffers death, so that we can be...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 26 A
30 Sep 2023
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Send us a textJesus empties himself, entering into our history, taking upon himself the effort and burden of human life; its joys and hopes, its grief...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 25 A
23 Sep 2023
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Send us a text“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy - li...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 24 A
16 Sep 2023
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Send us a textPeter has been given the keys to the kingdom of heaven, with the power to bind and to loose. So Peter is asking how much forgiveness is ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 23 A
09 Sep 2023
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Send us a textImmediately before today’s teaching, Jesus told about a shepherd going in search of a lost sheep. Jesus is describing our Father in he...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 22 A
02 Sep 2023
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Send us a textWhen Jesus begins to teach his disciples that he must suffer at the hands of the people, Peter is scandalized. His ideal is the same as ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 21 A
26 Aug 2023
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Send us a textPeter first names Jesus, “You are the Christ,” and then Jesus names Peter, “You are rock.” Jesus’ intention is to help Peter l...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 20 A
19 Aug 2023
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Send us a textShe says, “Yes, Lord.” (Notice she changes his title) and literally turns the table on him: “even the dogs eat the crumbs that f...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 19 A
12 Aug 2023
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Send us a textThe word that we use for the long center section in the church where the assembly gathers is called the nave. This word comes from the s...
Homily for the Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6th
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere is a bronze statue on the front lawn of the Basilica of St. Francis. The statue is called ‘Il Ritorno di Francesco,’ “The Re...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 17 A
29 Jul 2023
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Send us a textWhat if God appeared to you in a dream and said, "Ask something of me and I will give it to you?" I have Mass at St. Isidore ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 16 A
22 Jul 2023
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Send us a textIn the old Douay-Rheims Bible translation, the landowner says to them, “Suffer the weeds to grow with the wheat.” Let them grow toge...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 15 A
15 Jul 2023
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Send us a textThe parable tells us two important things about any good effort we undertake. 1. Losses are not the same as failure. 2. Faithfulness...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 14 A
08 Jul 2023
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Send us a textIf we accept Jesus’ invitation to take his yoke upon us and bind ourselves to him, Jesus promises that he will bind himself to us. “...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 13 A
01 Jul 2023
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Send us a textDuring the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis posed this challenge; "Almsgiving is not just about giving money. Stop and look in the fa...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 12 A
23 Jun 2023
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Send us a textIn his book, “How Not to be Afraid,” Gareth Higgins writes, “Most of our fears are not true at all; all of them depend on a story ...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 11 A
17 Jun 2023
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Send us a textThe Lord said to the Israelites: “You have seen for yourselves how I bore you up on eagle wings and brought you here to myself. You ...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, A
10 Jun 2023
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Send us a textYet there is another story to bread. Out of what is bread made? Kernels of wheat that had to be crushed in their individuality to beco...
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Homily, year A
03 Jun 2023
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Send us a textJohn 3:16: “For God so loved the world.” God loved even before we knew it. Creation itself is the very first revelation of God.I hav...
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, A
27 May 2023
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Send us a text"Pentecost is not so much about the power of God coming from outside us and down into us, but a releasing of the power that is alre...
Homily for the Ascension of the Lord, Year A
20 May 2023
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Send us a text"We make the way by walking."I have Mass @ St. Isidore on May 21, 7:30/9:30 am.the 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https:...
Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter A
13 May 2023
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Send us a textI have Mass this Sunday with our Pilgrims in Bethlehem, in the Holy Land. This is a homily I wrote three years ago. When bad things h...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter, A
06 May 2023
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Send us a textThe space in the tent is being expanded. The only way to be church together is to walk together and listen to one another; being built u...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter
29 Apr 2023
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Send us a textJesus said, “I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved,and will come in and go out and find pasture.” (John 10:9)I have...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, A
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe English word companion, is derived from the Latin com (“with”) and panis (“bread”). A companion, therefore, is someone w...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, A
15 Apr 2023
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Send us a textDo you see what’s happening here? Thomas is standing in front of Jesus; He puts his hands up to Jesus’ hands. Thomas is mirroring Je...
Homily for the Easter Vigil, year A
08 Apr 2023
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Send us a textThe women’s song “Is expressive of faith in what is not yet. They prepare for miracles; carrying the instruments of song with them t...
Homily for Palm Sunday/Lent 6 A
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a text"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins". (MT 26:28)I have Mass at St. Isi...
The Passion of St. Matthew, PART 5
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a textAt that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs als...
The Passion of St. Matthew, PART 4
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a textThen the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him. (MT 27:2...
The Passion of St. Matthew, PART 3
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a textWhen Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesusa was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests a...
The Passion of St. Matthew, PART 2
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a textBut Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order...
The Passion of St. Matthew, PART 1
01 Apr 2023
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Send us a textOne of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you? (...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent A
25 Mar 2023
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Send us a textFrederick Buechner writes: “When Lazarus opened his eyes to see the figure of Jesus standing there in the daylight, he couldn’t tell...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent, A
18 Mar 2023
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Send us a textSt. Paul writes, “Brothers and sisters: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.”The ho...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, A
11 Mar 2023
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Send us a textWe find Jesus sitting by Jacob’s well. Everyone listening to Jesus knew that Jacob met his wife, Rachel, at a well. You won’t believ...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent, A
04 Mar 2023
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Send us a textMy homily begins with a reflection on this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wATxSrIZouAquotations from “Awe: The New Scien...
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent, A
25 Feb 2023
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Send us a textThis new “Son of God” will not fail; and the new “Exodus” will succeed because this Son loves his Father will all his heart, wit...
Homily for Ash Wednesday
21 Feb 2023
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Send us a textThe reason we mark ourselves this day with ashes, right on the forehead, where everyone can see them, is to tell the world and each othe...
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 7 A
18 Feb 2023
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Send us a textMatthew is teaching us in 10 verses what St. Luke tells us in a single verse: "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 6 A
11 Feb 2023
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Send us a textProverbs 4:23 reminds us: Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. for the long version of the Gospel ht...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 5 A
04 Feb 2023
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Send us a textThe earth is the place where the community of the Sermon on the Mount lives. “Salt of the earth” means that faithful disciples must ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 4 A
28 Jan 2023
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Send us a textThe beatitudes begin: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." The very first word that comes out o...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 3 A
21 Jan 2023
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Send us a textIn calling first one set of brothers, Peter and Andrew, and then a second set of brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Jesus is...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 2 A
14 Jan 2023
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Send us a textJohn the Baptist testifies that he saw the Spirit resting on Jesus when he came out of the water and realized that this man must be both...
Homily for the Feast of the Epiphany
07 Jan 2023
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Send us a textDisaster comes from two Latin words ‘dis’ and ‘astre,’ meaning “separated from one’s star”. We face disaster when we are s...
Homily for January 1, The Octave Day of Christmas
31 Dec 2022
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Send us a textMary shows us a pattern of “accepting” and “throwing together.” And what is important in this pattern is when our tragedies are ...
Homily for the Mass of Christmas Day
23 Dec 2022
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Send us a text"To all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God." (John 1:12)I have Christmas Morn...
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent A
17 Dec 2022
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Send us a textJoseph is not like King Ahaz, who stubbornly refuses to admit that God cannot be limited by the contours of creation. But until his reve...
Homily for the Third Sunday of Advent A
10 Dec 2022
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Send us a textLast week, John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness. John is like a midwife: He had the freedom, the passion, and the clear boundarie...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent A
03 Dec 2022
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Send us a textIf the wolf can be the guest of the lamb, and the bear and cow be friends, then no injury or hate can be a guest within the kingdom of...
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent A
26 Nov 2022
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Send us a textMy family is having a different sort of Advent this year. My nephew and his wife are awaiting the birth of their third child in the next...