Fr. Joe Dailey
Episodes
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 14 C
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe are all connected to those 72 disciples who were sent out to proclaim the Good News, just like the 12 before them. Someone heard it a...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 13 C
25 Jun 2022
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Send us a textThe journey to Jerusalem is a new exodus. Jesus, the preacher and teacher, is opening the scriptures for us.I have Mass at St. Isidore o...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the j...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Trinity, year C
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe trinity isn’t really defined until about the fourth century. It’s like discovering something that has been hiding within revelat...
Homily for Pentecost, Year C
04 Jun 2022
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Send us a textThe language spoken between Jesus and the Father is an intimate language of love. This is a language of the heart; the language spoken a...
Homily for the Ascension, cycle C
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe no longer look to the sky, as if heaven and earth are separate. God’s desire and intention is to unite the two, to bring about a ...
Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter, C
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJesus’ answer does not respond to the question, “How is it you will reveal yourself TO us,” but “how he will reveal himself IN u...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter, C
14 May 2022
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Send us a textNotice, Jesus forgot to mention God. He didn’t say “Love God” and “Love your neighbor.” The new commandment is: “Love anothe...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter, C
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textin our reading from the book of Revelation, the worshipers are praising “the Lamb at the center of the throne.” "They have wa...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, C
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere is no beginning to create this new story and forge this new identity, except starting from how I was brought to the end of myself....
Gospel for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, C
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Gospel for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, C
23 Apr 2022
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Send us a textJohn 20:19-31
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, C
23 Apr 2022
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Send us a textThe risen Christ that the disciples encounter is simultaneously dead and alive. The risen Lord is thus always the crucified-and-risen Lo...
Homily for Easter Sunday
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"Even so, the glory of God sleeps everywhere, ready to blaze out unexpectedly in created things, Even so, his peace and his order l...
Homily For Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (Holy Thursday)
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA few verses after tonight’s Gospel passage, Jesus quotes Psalm 41: “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has l...
Homily for Palm/Passion Sunday
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAfter the Last Supper, the disciples go with Jesus to the mount of Olives. In Luke’s Passion, we are back to the garden where humanity...
The Passion of St. Luke 4
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left.
The Passion of St. Luke 1
08 Apr 2022
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Send us a textWhen the hour came, Jesus took his place at table with the apostles.
The Passion of St. Luke 3
08 Apr 2022
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Send us a textThen the whole assembly of them arose and brought him before Pilate.
The Passion of St. Luke 2
08 Apr 2022
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Send us a textThen going out, he went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent C
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe Scribes and Pharisees have built their identity over and against this woman they see as a sinner. In separating themselves from her,...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent C
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“In Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconc...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent C
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"I am the LORD your God...who brought you out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell with you." God is the one who meets us...
Homily for Second Sunday of Lent C
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTo gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of their life. The face always reveals who you are, and what lif...
Homily for the First Sunday of Lent C
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt seems that in this story there is only Jesus and the tempter. But Jesus is not alone; just as God led the Israelites into the wildern...
Homily for Ash Wednesday 2022
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWithin the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring. The gray landscape is shorn of color. Winter is the oldest ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 8 C
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.”This is a homily/story that I shared in 2019. Here is the video v...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 7 C
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen Jesus says, to "love your enemies." I think he is challenging us to meet them, to get to know them for who they are rathe...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 6 C
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe shall not, we shall not be moved,We shall not, we shall not be moved;Like a tree, that’s planted by the water,We shall not be moved...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 5 C
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn the eyes of Jesus, Peter saw the one who insists on loving him into life beyond his fear and [email protected]
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 4 C
29 Jan 2022
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Send us a textWhen Jesus’ neighbors thought he would bring them untold blessings, they spoke favorably of him. When they understand he is asking t...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 3 C
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt is our teaching that when the Word of God is proclaimed at liturgy, we are not remembering something God once said. God is speaking...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 2 C
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textit stands to reason that Jesus’s first public “sign” takes place at a wedding feast, for Jesus himself is the marriage of divini...
Homily for the Baptism of the Lord
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt is a mythic river that Jesus wades into, the Jordan, which flows under the same sky where a mighty wind was sweeping over the waters ...
Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe wise men come bringing gifts of myrrh, gold and frankincense, all profound references to the 1st Temple in Jerusalem.I will be presi...
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family C
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text For Luke, “being lost” is like “being dead,” and “being found” is like “being made alive.” This is stated most dra...
Homily for Christmas 2021
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt is to shepherds that this Good News is announced: “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy tha...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent C
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMary and Elizabeth are not alone. How good it is that God gave them one to another. God's most radical intervention into history wa...
Homily for 3rd Sunday of Advent C
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"The daybreak from on high will visit us to shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow, to guide our feet into the pat...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent C
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe heights of despair and the depths of depression will be leveled out. [email protected]
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, C
27 Nov 2021
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Send us a textAdvent begins in the dark. In this dark landscape, we are invited to describe life “on earth as it is," to name the seeming a...
Homily for the Feast of Christ the King B
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice,” Jesus said. And Pilate asked Jesus, in a line that is omitted from today’...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 33 B
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textLast week Jesus was in the Temple, sitting opposite the Treasury. Now Jesus is opposite the Temple mount, on the Mount of Olives. The ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 32 B
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe widow says nothing, and yet her actions speak volumes. The Greek word for her "giving her whole life" prefigures the sacri...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 31 B
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRabbi Rami Shapiro points out that the four-letter Hebrew Name of God - Y-H-V-H, yod-hey-vav-hey - when written vertically, takes on t...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 30 B
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPope Francis, who has been reading these same passages in Mark’s Gospel, had a close encounter with this Gospel during his papal audie...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 29 B
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJames Carroll, in his new memoir, “The Truth at the Heart of the Lie,” recalls this experience. On his first visit to the Church o...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 28 B
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe prohibitions are like the bottom of a glass. If the glass does not have a bottom, everything just spills out; it can’t hold anythi...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 B
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe children are at the center of the three passion predictions. Jesus is teaching us what it means to follow the Messiah and therefor...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 26 B
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhenever you want to draw lines in order to mark who is outside the kingdom and who is inside, always remember: Jesus is on the other si...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 25 B
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJesus calls them into a circle around him - we infer the circle from the placing of the child in the middle - and teaches by word and de...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 24 B
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBoth narratively and geographically, today’s Gospel stands at a crossroads. It’s right in the middle of Mark, almost exactly halfway...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 23 B
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAs if he could understand Hebrew, Jesus said to the man Ephphetha. "Be opened" is not addressed to the ears; it is a command t...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 22 B
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPope Francis quotes the 19th-century composer Gustav Mahler, who said, "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 21 B Parish Version
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI have Mass on Sunday at Church of the Holy Spirit in Highland, MI. This is revised version of the homily for the parish Mass.
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 21 B
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe protesting disciples do not rightly perceive the flesh of which Jesus speaks. They see only Jesus' flesh; they do not see "...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption
14 Aug 2021
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Send us a textAs Mary proclaimed in the Magnificat, “God has remembered his promise of mercy.”This promise is being fulfilled in Mary.
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 19 B
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"No one has ever seen God," (John 1:18) but in Jesus we see the human face of God who desires to gather us. Jesus is comin...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 18 B
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJesus identifies the bread of God with himself: “I am the bread of life.” In that deepest descent into the world of flesh, suffering...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 17 B
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTaking the loaves and giving thanks, Jesus rejoices in the abundance that God has given and distributes the bread to all until they are ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 16 B
17 Jul 2021
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Send us a text“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” Jesus is physically moving the disciples - getting into the bo...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 15 B
10 Jul 2021
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Send us a text"They went out and proclaimed that all should repent" The twelve, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel, are sent out pr...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 14 B
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJesus is calling his own family to remember that they are part of a larger family; they are children of Abraham. Jesus does not find the...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 13 B
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn combining the saving/healing of these two daughters, as a story within a story, Mark is teaching us that our lives are all connecte...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 12 B
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPerhaps Mark is showing us that no matter what stands against him, Jesus’ faith is not based on what is happening around him, but rest...
Homiiy for Sunday Ordinary 11 B
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe Kingdom of God spreads swiftly, invisibly, often underground. It’s more wild than “noble,” more undomesticated weed than dom...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them.” Henri Nouwen reflects on these four verbs of the Eucharist In...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Trinity
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” “I am” is the divine name revealed to Moses at the burning bush. "...
Homily for Pentecost Sunday
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThrough the gift of the Holy Spirit we get to participate actively as conscious and knowing beings within God’s own creative act.
Homily for the Solemnity of the Ascension
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textOn the feast of the Ascension, the book of the Gospel draws to a close, but the story does not come to an end. Now we go forth to live t...
Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter B
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textGod loves everything, totally, completely, perfectly, absolutely. Peter was blown away by this discovery: “In truth, I see that God sh...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter B
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere is no us and them; in Christ, we are all connected. Heather McGhee TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_c_mcghee_ra...
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter B
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTo be in relationship with the Good Shepherd Is also to be in relationship with each other. In the English language, there is no separat...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter B
17 Apr 2021
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Send us a textThe evangelist means to tell the readers that resurrection from the dead is more than a mere spiritual event. The whole person is redeem...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter B
10 Apr 2021
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Send us a textThe disciples are about to be sent out; the Risen Christ is sending them as instruments of God’s creative act, to bring God’s Shalom...
Homily for Easter Sunday Mark 16:1-8
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMark has hidden the resurrection in the very first chapter of the Gospel. That is why there is no resurrection at the end; the whole Gos...
Holy Thursday
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn washing their feet, Jesus is challenging his disciples to do the same for each other; to see that all are equal friends. In the Kingd...
Ubi Caritas, Taizé
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Passion of St. Mark, part 3
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textconclusion of the Passion, chapter 15. Song: Crucem Tuam, Taizé
Were You There
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWere you there sung by Joe Dailey, Mari Reyes, Don Martus.
The Passion of St. Mark, part 2
27 Mar 2021
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Send us a textconclusion of chapter 14. Song: If I have been the source of pain. C. Maud Battersby
The Passion of St. Mark, part 1
27 Mar 2021
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Send us a textThe Passion of St. Mark, chapter 14. Song: Stay Here and Keep Watch, Taizé.
Homily for Palm/Passion Sunday B
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJesus had been speaking of his impending death since the middle of the Gospel, but the Twelve struggled to conceive of a kingdom that wo...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent B
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe see Jesus when we willing to follow him, giving our lives away in love.
IRISH BLESSING
13 Mar 2021
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Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent B
13 Mar 2021
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Send us a textNicodemus, a teacher of Israel, comes to Jesus, the light of the world, at night.
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, B
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn offering his whole self to us - Body and blood - Jesus is renewing the Sinai covenant. We are being turned into the new temple that i...
Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent B
27 Feb 2021
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Send us a textOn the mountain, we realize that humanity and divinity are really two sides of the same coin. Humanity is meant to become by grace, what...
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent B
20 Feb 2021
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Send us a textJust as it was for Jesus in the wilderness - the angels waited on him, and he was with the wild beasts - so is true for us: both Heaven ...
Homily for Ash Wednesday 2021
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textEvery year God says to us: “Lech lecha,” luring us into the Lenten wilderness beyond the confining boundaries of culture, kin and yo...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 6 B
13 Feb 2021
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Send us a textLiving inside a community of love is always costly. “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” St. Paul encourages us, and then goes...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 5 B
06 Feb 2021
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Send us a textBy reading Job next to Mark, we begin to grasp the extent of the salvation that is happening here. The world is, in fact, alienated from...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 4 B
30 Jan 2021
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Send us a textAt the end of today’s Gospel, Mark returns us to the theme of authority and teaching.Now we know that he is writing about the kind ...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 3 B
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textNotice that what Jesus is doing is itself a sign that the kingdom of God is breaking in. Someone – John the Baptist – has been lost....
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 2 B
16 Jan 2021
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Send us a textWe are coming face to face with some very disturbing images of ourselves. But Jesus turns towards us, looks into us, and asks: “What a...
Homily for the Baptism of the Lord
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn these few short verses, Mark has given us an overview of the entire story of Jesus, and Jesus has not yet spoken a single word.
Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord
02 Jan 2021
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Send us a textWhen you walk by God’s shining radiance, then you shall be radiant at what you see. The meaning of this glorious feast, Epiphany, lit...
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family B
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIf we have lived long at all, we know that no one can love us like family, and no one can hurt us like family. “Grief is the price w...
Homily for Christmas 2020
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textGod appears in, with, under, and as flesh, with a human body, a body made from the same stardust that makes up all other bodies.
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, B
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe too are asked to make a dwelling place for God; to put skin on God, making Christ present and living among us.