Today is a great Solemnity in the Catholic Church.   The two pillars of the Church, Saint Peter and Paul.     We hear in today’s first...

  Homily for the 13 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022   Saint Paul warns the Galatians in today’s 2 nd reading “if you go on bi...

  Corpus Christi 2022   We normally have a public procession this weekend, but the Archdiocese is having a massive Corpus Christi proces...

In case anyone is interested in a more detailed description of my trip to Lourdes, I am providing this summary.  Feel free, as well, to pass...

"W hat is known as 'the law of gradualness' or step-by-step advance cannot be identified with 'gradualness of the law' ...

  Pentecost Sunday 2022   Pentecost was already a feast day in the Jewish Calendar for about 1500 years when the events of our first rea...

  Father Michael Clawson’s First Mass Homily - Vigil of Pentecost   Father. Michael. Clawson.   Before diving into this homily, I just w...

  Jesus says in our Gospel today: “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another....

In the Criterion, the newspaper for the Archdiocese, there is an awesome story this week about our new St. Vincent De Paul food pantry.   Th...

  We hear in our second reading from the book of Revelation today “I heard every creature in heaven and everything in the universe, cry out:...

  Jesus says in our Gospel blessed are those who have not seen, and believed.   One of the things that this line from Christ implies is th...

  If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God…not of what is on earth.   Th...

 

  When I first moved out to the Terre Haute Deanery for my first ever stint as a pastor, I was tasked with having to finish off the closing ...

  There is an idea that has been around for a while and that idea could be summarized by the question “Didn’t Judas HAVE to hand Jesus over?...

  Homily for April 2 nd and 3 rd – Go and sin no more Father Vince Lampert, the exorcist for our Archdiocese, came to Saint Paul’s on Th...

  Homily for the 4 th Sunday of Lent, 2022   There is a line in our Gospel today that I would like to preach on, and it is this: “He sa...

  Annunciation 2022   Several years ago, if anyone had asked me a question about the state of our country or ways to improve the Catholi...

  “For many conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.   Their God is their stomach” Saint Paul warns the Philippians that many...

  “The war in Ukraine, and Fatima” - Homily for March 5 th and 6 th   At the beginning of our Eucharistic Prayer, we will once again sa...