Category: Weekday Homilies

Homily, 9-19-22; Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time: The Book of Proverbs is part of the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament. Reading through proverbs is always an interesting source for meditation and for pursuing wisdom. And our first reading today, Proverbs 3:27-34, is advice on how we should act if we are… Continue reading Wisdom from Proverbs to Defeat Proposal 3

Homily, 8-29-22; Passion of John the Baptist: Do people find you perplexing? Causing someone to be perplexed can be a bad thing or a good thing. I think Jenni is often perplexed by my words or actions, and usually not in a good way. But in today

Homily, 8-8-22; Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time: Are we subjects or are we foreigners? In today

Homily, 8-1-22; Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time: Today we heard the entire 28th chapter of the book of the prophet Jeremiah. And we heard about the conflict between Jeremiah and the false prophet, Hananiah. We heard about wooden yokes and iron yokes. And it can sound a little confusing if we don

Homily, 7-25-22; Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time: Our psalm response this morning was:

Homily, 7-18-22; Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time: Today our readings have very much the same theme as last Monday. In fact we have the exact same responsorial psalm as last week which ends with these words:

Homily, 7-11-22; Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time: Every Lenten season we are instructed to pray, to fast, and to give alms. And we should pray giving God thanks and praise. We should fast and make sacrifices. We should give to the poor and the needy. These are all things we should do.… Continue reading Salvation to the One Who Goes the Right Way

Homily, 7-4-22; Independence Day: This is the 4th of July, Independence Day. And the proper prayers for this Independence Day Mass speak of peace and unity and justice. We need to pray for peace, unity, and justice because they seem to be in short supply in our nation today. Over the years we have come… Continue reading We Must Respond as in the Days of Our Youth

Homily, 6-20-22; Monday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time: We are currently moving through Matthew

Homily, 6-13-22; Feast of St. Anthony: In our gospel passage today we hear the well-known direction from Jesus to turn the other cheek. It is call to docility, a passive response to evil behavior. But it is not a direction to accept evil. It is a call to respond in a different way, to respond… Continue reading Speak in Different Languages