Fr. Joe Dailey
Episodes
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
The Rabbi's Gift
12 Dec 2020
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Send us a textI learned this story from John Shea, who received it as a gift from an Hasidic Storyteller Reuven Gold. It is sometimes attributed to ...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, B
12 Dec 2020
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Send us a text“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday Advent B
05 Dec 2020
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Send us a textMark's Gospel is just the beginning. After we have heard it, the Gospel continues in us. We won’t need pen and ink; we write the ...
Yet, Oh Lord (Isaiah 64)
28 Nov 2020
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Send us a textWords and Music by Joe Dailey, ©copyright 1988
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, B.
28 Nov 2020
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Send us a textAdvent means to come. We imagine that we are waiting for the coming of God into the world; but it is God who is waiting for us to incarn...
Homily For the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
21 Nov 2020
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Send us a textMatthew 25 should not be read as a parable about the sorting of individuals in the afterlife according to principles of personal charity...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 33 A
14 Nov 2020
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Send us a textThe problem with the timid servant who buried his talent is not that he was an ineffective venture capitalist, but that he fundamentally...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 32 A
07 Nov 2020
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Send us a textThe wise maidens are the ones who keep their lamps trimmed and burning, ready to lift a torch for anyone: the hungry, the poor, the stra...
All Souls Day Reflection
03 Nov 2020
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Send us a textOur beloved dead are connected to God, and therefore connected to everything that God loves.
On That Day, by Joe Dailey
31 Oct 2020
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Send us a textHymn for the Feast of All Saints, reflection on the reading 1 John, 3:1-3
HOMILY SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
31 Oct 2020
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Send us a text"“The only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” (Léon Bloy)
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 30 A
24 Oct 2020
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Send us a textWhen the Pharisees ask their last tricky question, Jesus does indeed out-trick them. But he doesn't do it by giving the right answe...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 29 A
17 Oct 2020
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Send us a textOn our best days, remembering that we are made In the image and likeness of God, we will make God present in our living and loving. On t...
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 28 A
10 Oct 2020
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Send us a textIn his new encyclical, Pope Francis points to the worldwide tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic that momentarily revived the sense that we ...
Autumn Thanksgiving
03 Oct 2020
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Send us a text"For Autumn and the leaves of death, we give you thanks O Lord."
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 A
03 Oct 2020
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Send us a textJesus authority and power is shown quite clearly: Jesus is the one who gives life instead of taking it.
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 26 A
26 Sep 2020
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Send us a text"We wanted our Bible to reflect life. In life you are not given the chance to erase your mistakes. Your only choice is to admit the...
Homily Ordinary 25 A
19 Sep 2020
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Send us a textThe grumbling of the workers from the first hour reflects the grumbling of Jesus’ contemporaries who were outraged at the new thing he...
Homily Sunday Ordinary 24 A
12 Sep 2020
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Send us a textClinging to vengeance tortures us with our vengeance for as long as we are imprisoned by it.
Homily for Ordinary 23 A
05 Sep 2020
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Send us a textWhen we forgive, we do not forget. Rather, we remember in a different way.
Homily for Ordinary 22 A
29 Aug 2020
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Send us a textThe cross is not just a singular event. It’s a statement from God that reality has a cruciform pattern.
Homily for Ordinary 21 A
22 Aug 2020
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Send us a textJesus also calls Simon the son of Jonah. Jonah was the one who went the other way when God sent him to preach to the Ninevites, who are ...
Homily for Ordinary 20 A
15 Aug 2020
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Send us a textBy the end of Matthew’s Gospel, the mission has changed: “Go, Make disciples of all nations." When Matthew is writing the Gospe...
Song for Elijah: Speak to Your People, O Lord.
08 Aug 2020
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Send us a textFrom the FRIENDS Reunion concert at Christ the Redeemer, 2006.Words and music by Joe Dailey, copyright © 1975 Alba House Media, Canfie...
Homily Ordinary 19 A
08 Aug 2020
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Send us a textPerhaps it is the time for the church to learn to apply the lesson of the deep communion we share with God and one another.
Homily for Ordinary 18 A
01 Aug 2020
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Send us a text"When Jesus heard that Herod had beheaded John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself." (Mt. 14:13)...
Homily for Ordinary 17 A
25 Jul 2020
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Send us a textMary Magdalene wants to hold on to what she thinks she has lost; only in letting go, will she be able to receive the hidden treasure tha...
Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time A
18 Jul 2020
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Send us a textWe have three more images today and I would like to suggest three words: Faith, hope and Love.
Fr. Joe's Final Homily CTR
29 Jun 2020
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Send us a textWhoever welcomes you, welcomes me.
Homily for 12th Sunday Ordinary A
20 Jun 2020
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Send us a textGod's eye is on the sparrow.
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
13 Jun 2020
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Send us a text"Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." (1 Cor. 10:17)
Homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
06 Jun 2020
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Send us a textDuring his “long and lonely” years in prison, Nelson Mandela’s passion for the liberation of his people expanded, becoming “a h...
Pentecost 2020
30 May 2020
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Send us a textPentecost is not so much about the power of God coming from outside us, but a releasing of the power that is already within us.
Homily for the Ascension of the Lord
23 May 2020
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Send us a textWhat began in the Lord's resurrection is now ready to burst forth and flood the world through the work of the disciples.
Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter
16 May 2020
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Send us a textWhen Jesus tells his disciples, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you,” he is both acknowledging their impending vuln...
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter 2020
09 May 2020
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Send us a textJesus is changing the location of his father's house from the Temple to the Temple of his body. And we too, are being built Into a ...
We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God
09 May 2020
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Send us a textPope Francis' prayer to Mary for the month of May
Homily Easter 4 A: Good Shepherd Sunday
02 May 2020
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Send us a textIn the very temple area filled with sheep on their way to slaughter, Joshua / Jesus declares there is a way out: “I have come that the...
3rd Sunday of Easter Homily 2020
25 Apr 2020
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Send us a textHere is the good news proclaimed by Luke: even though we don’t see him, Jesus comes near and walks with us.
Homily Easter 2, April 19, 2020
18 Apr 2020
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Send us a textIt’s the evening of that same first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked. (John 20:19) ...
Easter Sunday Homily on John 20: While it was still dark
11 Apr 2020
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Send us a textOn Holy Saturday, the Church gathers in the dark, to sing: “O night of endless wonder, night of bliss, when every living creature hel...
Good Friday reflection at the foot of the Cross
10 Apr 2020
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Send us a textJohn 19:25 "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother."On Good Friday we find Our Lady weeping at the cross, amid the global pa...
Holy Thursday Taizé Prayer
09 Apr 2020
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Send us a textStay With Me © 1984 Les Presses de Taizé GIA Publications, Inc., agent. En Tus Manos © 2007, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé GIA Publicat...
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, October 2019
05 Apr 2020
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Send us a textOn our last pilgrimage to the Holy Land, we had Mass inside the Edicule, which is a small shrine or chapel inside the Church of the Holy...
Palm Sunday Homily
04 Apr 2020
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Send us a textOn the cross, we find Jesus at prayer.
John 11, Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent
28 Mar 2020
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Send us a textJesus is experiencing something like a Gethsemane; for he knows that calling Lazarus out of the tomb means that he must enter it.
Prayer for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
25 Mar 2020
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Send us a textWhen we let the word find a home in our hearts, God’s faithful covenant takes flesh.
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent A
22 Mar 2020
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Send us a text"Faith in God does not bring you safety. Danger still exists. And by that I mean, danger is not optional, but fear is." Nadia ...
Homily for the Solemnity of St. Joseph, March 19, 2020
19 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThis podcast is the homily from the Mass for the Solemnity of St. Joseph. You can find the video link for the Mass at ctredeemer.org.
Taizé Prayer
17 Mar 2020
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Send us a textTuesday 3rd Week of LentOpening Hymn: God is ForgivenessEvening Psalm: In te confide (psalm 25)Song of Light: De noche iremosGospel: Mat...
3rd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A
14 Mar 2020
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Send us a textLiturgy of the Word for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A. Recorded at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church with Fr. Joe Dailey, CTR Music ...