Jesus is LIFE! – Homily at St. John Cantius for the 5 th Sunday of Easter, 2023   I heard a few people coming into Church this mornin...

Good Shepherd 2023   Jesus as the Good Shepherd is an image and reality of God that the world desperately needs to hear at this particul...

 

  Divine Mercy Sunday “Let us also go to die with Him!”   As I was reading the Gospel this year for the 5 th Sunday of Lent…I noticed s...

  Homily for Easter Tuesday, 2023 - "Do not touch me?"   It is not the case that Jesus does not want anyone to touch him.   He...

  Holy Thursday 2023   I have heard it a lot from various people inside and outside the Catholic Church that the Mass should be much mor...

 I was praying the Liturgy of the Hours recently, and a line from Psalm 14 really struck me. "They never pray to the Lord See how they ...

 One of the 4 Pillar documents of the 2nd Vatican Council, the document governing revisions to the Mass, (Sacrosanctum Conclilium) in paragr...

Mass "Ad Orientem" (The Priest Facing the East) or, as it is typically referred to falsely as "The priest celebrating Mass wi...

  4 th Sunday of Lent – “Light and Darkness of Soul”   A theme that we hear throughout all of the readings for this Sunday is physical ...

Jesus tells the woman at the well in today’s Gospel that “the hour is coming when people will worship the Father in Spirit and truth”   ...

  2 nd Sunday of Lent, 2023 “Don’t Chase Mountaintop Experiences”   It is normal, on a human level, to crave mountain top experiences w...

  The Litany of Humility – Homily for the First Sunday of Lent 2023   In our first reading today, we see Satan tempting our first parent...

"W hat credit is there for you if you are patient when you are beaten for doing what is wrong?  But if you are patient when you suffer ...

  The God of the Old Testament is some times thought of wrongly as an angry God.   But in light of that, in case there is any doubt in anyon...

  Today, the Church honors Saint Peter Damien, who is a doctor of the Church.   As with most saints, he preferred to live a life of prayer a...

  “Be Perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect” A lot of us hear that and think that Jesus does not REALLY mean we should be perfect…but...

“The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not.  Cain greatly resented this and was crestfall...

  “Upping the Bar” – Homily for the 6 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2023 In our Gospel today, Jesus says I have come not to abolish the law...