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Advent Resources
God is Offering You a Grace this Advent - Don’t miss out on it!
Advent - Preparing our hearts for the the Second Coming of Jesus
stories about Advent
First Sunday of Advent
Advent - Waiting in Patient Hope for God
Related Homilies: God is Offering You a Grace this Advent - Don’t miss out on it!
Advent - Preparing our hearts for the the Second Coming of Jesus
Second Sunday of Advent
God wants to Pick You Up and Hold You Close to his Breast!
Related Homilies: God is Offering You a Grace this Advent - Don’t miss out on it!
Advent - Preparing our hearts for the the Second Coming of Jesus
Third Sunday of Advent
Related Homilies: God is Offering You a Grace this Advent - Don’t miss out on it!
Advent - Preparing our hearts for the the Second Coming of Jesus
Jesus among you unknown to you
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Jesus came because Mary surrendered to God and said “Yes”
Saying “Yes” to Jesus’ invitation to allow Him into our Lives
Related Homilies: Mary Full of Grace
Christmas Season and Baptism of Our Lord
See homilies in Years A, B and C
Do you recognize Jesus’ Call to you? & Our Bodies Are for the Lord
Called to be Transformed by Jesus
Related Homilies: vocation to be Christian: Bear with one another charitably, love your children
vocation to be Christian: We are drawn into the love at the heart of the Trinity
stories about vocation
Third Sunday
In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus
Related Homilies: on vocation see Second Sunday above
on the call to repent see God Continues to Call Us to Bear Fruit
stories of vocation and repentance
March for Life Life Homilies
Fourth Sunday
Related Homilies: Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
Let us have faith in the power of Jesus to heal us and pick us up
Fifth Sunday
Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
Related Homilies: Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
First Reading: positive thinking
Gospel: on casting out demons power of Holy Water
Sixth Sunday
We are called to live community - though many we form one body
Related Homilies: Father Damien in the leper colony on Molokai
Homilies on healing: Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
Let us have faith in the power of Jesus to heal us and pick us up
Seventh Sunday
Let Jesus dispose of the garbage caused by sin
Related Homilies: Let us wash at the Pool of Siloam and be filled with Jesus’ light
Open your heart to Jesus’ Mercy like Zacchaeus
stories about God’s Mercy
stories about sin
stories Weeds among the Wheat, God’s Infinite Mercy - a dialogue
Eighth Sunday
Jesus the Bridegroom loves the Church his Bride
The Love of God for us - God became one with us
Related Homilies: Jesus - new wine in new wineskins expanding our vision
stories about God’s Love for us
Ninth Sunday
First Sunday of Lent
Related Homilies: Dying and Rising with Jesus during Lent
Overcoming Sin and Temptation during Lent - Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving
Overcoming Temptation
and Giving Up Sin during Lent because We Love Jesus
2008
Decide to Overcome Sin
Reliving the temptations of Jesus
stories for Lent
Second Sunday of Lent
Related Homilies: Look Beyond Present Pain to the Presence of God
Jesus’ Transfiguration and Overcoming Negativity
We live by faith not sight, and we treasure experiences of God’s personal love
Second Reading: Jesus pleading for us at God’s right hand
Third Sunday of Lent
The Ten Commandments Forming Our Conscience
Related Homilies: The Commandments - God’s Indicator Panel
stories about the Commandments
on Jesus’ justified anger, excerpt of Enjoying the Bible
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Stories: Light of Jesus
Inexplicable light in form of embryo in Guadalupe
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Jesus’ Hour of Glory - God’s thinking vs. our thinking
Holy Week to Easter Sunday
Trust, Surrender, Believe, Receive
Only by faith in Jesus will we
have life
2006
Related Homilies: Peace
Be With You after Being Sifted Like Wheat by Satan
stories about faith
Third Sunday of Easter
Reach out and Touch the Lord! Jesus was like us in every way except sin
Jesus’ forgiveness flows to us from the Cross
2006
mp3
meditation: Jesus is Risen from
Let’s Talk to Jesus
Related Homilies: on God’s forgiveness “Neither do I condemn you. Go and do not sin again”
Let us wash at the Pool of Siloam and be filled with Jesus’ light
Let Jesus dispose of the garbage caused by sin
The Passion of Jesus moves us to Repentance
Second Reading: our advocate with Father Jesus pleads for us
stories about God’s forgiveness
stories about confession of sin
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Jesus the Good Shepherd carries us on his shoulder and lays down his life for us 2006
Related Homilies: Jesus is the Good Shepherd
Jesus laying down his life: Gethsemane and crucifixion
Jesus is High Priest of the New Testament 2006
See Vocation Sunday in Years A, B and C
a good shepherd laying his life for his sheep St. Damien of Molokai
St Patrick tended animals and returned to Ireland to lay down his life for his flock
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Bear Fruit - Our love is not to be just words or mere talk
Related Homilies: Producing Fruit for the Kingdom
Sixth Sunday of Easter
The agape sacrificial love of Jesus and the miraculous crucifix of Limpias
Related Homilies: on the love of Jesus Bride and Groom - the love of Jesus for us
Loving Others as Jesus Loved Us
on laying down life for friends see St. Damien of Molokai
Ascension
Jesus Continues to be Present in his Church after his Ascension 2006
Related Homilies: Enlightened to our Calling and Destiny
Waiting in Prayer for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Waiting in Prayer for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Pentecost Sunday
Renewed by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost - Sr Emmanuel’s experience
Living as authentic followers of Jesus will help many to come to follow Jesus 2006
Related Homilies: How can we receive the Holy Spirit to raise us up? 2006
my meditation on Pentecost in Let’s Talk to Jesus
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Related Homilies: The Most Holy Trinity: Abba, Emmanuel, Helper
The Most Holy Trinity: belonging to the Holy Trinity since Baptism
Father who sought me, Son who bought me, Spirit who taught me
We are drawn into the love at the heart of the Trinity (Year A)
Story: St. Augustine and the Mystery of the Trinity
Corpus Christi
See Homilies for Years A, B and C
Second Reading: Jesus High Priest of the New Covenant 2007
Twelfth Sunday
Related Homilies: Courage! It is I! Do Not Be Afraid!
Amazing Grace that saved a Wretch like Me!
stories about faith
Thirteenth Sunday
Let us have faith in the power of Jesus to heal us and pick us up
Related Homilies: Jesus Our Healer
Fourteenth Sunday
Jesus could work no miracle because they rejected him
Related Homilies: Second Reading Carrying Our Cross after Jesus
Gospel: Commentary The Brothers and Sisters of Jesus
Fifteenth Sunday
Chosen to be holy and spotless in Christ
Related Homilies: Jesus could work no miracle because they rejected him
Second Reading: Chosen by God
Sixteenth Sunday
Jesus helping his disciples and the crowds
Related Homilies: on the Psalm Jesus is the Good Shepherd
on the disciples resting Slow Down to Enjoy Life and Hear Jesus
stories about helping others
Seventeenth Sunday
Jesus expands our vision; our small vision vs. Jesus’ limitless vision
What the world offers us is puny but God offers us more than we can imagine 2006
Second Reading: Bear with one another charitably, love your children
Related Homilies: Miracle at Juarez: Give to Jesus and he gives to us
Homilies on the Eucharist: see Twentieth Sunday below
Eighteenth Sunday
Alexandrina lived only on Jesus in the Eucharist for thirteen years
Homilies on the Eucharist: see Twentieth Sunday below
Nineteenth Sunday
On Pope John Paul II’s Letter on the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia
“Stop complaining to each other”
Homilies on the Eucharist: see Twentieth Sunday below
Twentieth Sunday
The Eucharist: Jesus living in us and we in Jesus - Little Nellie of Holy God
Leave Sin Behind, Taste and See that the Lord is Good
Related Homilies: The Eucharist and the Priesthood were born during the Last Supper
Faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and Eucharistic Miracles
Alexandrina lived only on Jesus in the Eucharist for thirteen years
Jesus our Healer, healing through the Mass and sacraments
Pope John Paul II’s Letter on the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia
Twenty-First Sunday
“It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh has nothing to offer”
second reading excerpt Enjoying Paul's Letters and Old Testament
Twenty-Second Sunday
The Commandments - God’s Indicator Panel
Related Homilies: The Ten Commandments Forming Our Conscience
stories about the Commandments
Twenty-Third Sunday
Eyes open to Jesus and ear unsealed to his Good News
Slow Down to Enjoy Life and Hear Jesus
Related Homilies: on Jesus as healer Jesus our Healer
Second Reading: We are all Equal in Dignity before God
Twenty-Fourth Sunday
Taking up our Cross after Jesus
Do we live the Faith we Profess or
run from the Cross? Are we Schizophrenic?
2006
Related Homilies:
Carrying Our Cross after Jesus
Let us Grow through Trials as Peter did
When problems loom let us turn to Prayer
stories about our cross
Twenty-Fifth Sunday
“If anyone wants to be first he must be servant of all”
Jesus shows us who is truly great - the last becomes first
Related Homilies: Seeing Jesus in others - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Bear with one another charitably, love your children
Today’s Gospel in its context in Mark 2006
on service: Jesus helping his disciples and the crowds
Twenty-Sixth Sunday
If your hand should cause you to sin cut it off!
Related Homilies: Decide to Overcome Sin
October - Respect Life Month
Twenty-Seventh Sunday
Marriage is a School of Love and Forgiveness
What God has joined together man must not divide
Related Homilies: The Church’s Teaching on Marriage
The Holy Family, and encouragement for the Family by Pope John Paul II
Twenty-Eighth Sunday
You are lacking in one thing - Go, Sell, Give, Come, Follow Me 2006
Related Homilies: Our Treasure in Heaven will be what We Give to the Poor
Vocations in the Bible - Answering God’s Call
Second Reading: Your Word is a Lamp for my Steps
“They have the Scriptures, let them listen to them”
stories about money
Twenty-Ninth Sunday - also Mission Sunday
Mission Sunday - homily excerpts
Related Homilies: Today’s Gospel Passage in its context in Mark 2006
on service Jesus helping his disciples and the crowds
Second Reading: humanity of Jesus
First Reading: Jesus’ suffering as revealed by the Shroud of Turin
Thirtieth Sunday
Why pray when God knows what we want? - The Healing of Bartimaeus
Related Homilies: Let us wash at the Pool of Siloam and be filled with Jesus’ light
Happy the Man or Woman in Prison who does not Lose Faith in Jesus
on Jesus as healer Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
Let us have faith in the power of Jesus to heal us and pick us up
Thirty-First Sunday
When we love God and Neighbor we are filled with God’s Light and Miracles Follow 2006
Related Homilies: Loving God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves
If You Love Me You Will Keep my Commandments
Pagan practices vs. loving God with all our heart
on love of neighbor: Seeing Jesus in others
Loving Others as Jesus Loved Us
Bear with one another Charitably - Love Your Children
If anyone wants to be first he must be servant of all (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
stories loving God
stories about loving neighbor as oneself
Thirty-Second Sunday
Related Homilies: First Reading The miracle in the dump at Juarez - Give to Jesus and he gives to us
Thirty-Third Sunday
A second chance at living, that chance is now
Related Homilies: Preparing for the the Second Coming of Jesus
Thirty-Fourth Sunday - Christ the King
Jesus Christ our King - all who are on the side of truth listen to his voice
Good Citizens of Our Country but God’s Servants First - Jesus is Our King 2006
Related Homilies: Jesus is a Powerless King
Commentary: Jesus as King in Mark