Saint Augustine on Catholics Giving 50% of their income As I was doing research for last weekend’s homily on the steward slashing out hi...

    “What in the world is going on with this parable?” This week, I fielded lots of questions from our youth groups about today’s parable,...

Our Lady of Sorrows When I was up at Mayo Clinic after my first brain surgery, it took me about 5 days to wake up.   I was only awake about ...

  Bob Boyle funeral homily   First of all to Rita, on behalf of all of us in this Church, it was an honor and a privilege to have a fron...

  Where is Heaven? Homily for the 24 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sam Harris, who is a celebrity in the atheist community, several weeks ag...

  First of all, I would like to thank every parishioner of Annunciation.  To try and list everyone who helped Joyce would be pointless becau...

 This is a talk given by Dr. Maria Bajuyo at one of my parishes 7 years ago.

 I think this talk was one of my best so far, not because I planned it out that way, but because the Holy Spirit took over in some spots and...

  St. Bede provides us some comfort when we hear Jesus say in our Gospel today “anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cann...

  A theme that we hear about in both our first reading and in our Gospel today is humility.   There are at least a thousand different true d...

  Today the Church celebrates the Queenship of Mary   This memorial was set up with an encyclical written by Pope Pius XII in 1954   ...

  Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" He answered them, "Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” ...

  The prophet Ezekiel in our first reading today says to a prince of a nation named Tyre “Because you are haughty of heart, you say, “A god ...

  At the First Vatican Council which started in 1869 defined papal infallibility.   It has since been invoked explicitly in 2 instances.   O...

  Homily for the 20 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2022   Jesus promises in our Gospel today: “From now on a household of five will be div...

  Saint Lawrence 2022   Jesus says in our Gospel today “whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.”   J...

  Saint Dominic 2022   Today, as I shared at the beginning of Mass, the Church celebrates today the witness of Saint Dominic.   He was t...

Romans 3:28 says "For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law."   This verse was twisted by Ma...

  19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2022 Jesus says in today's Gospel:  “be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding...

  Today is the Feast Day of Saint John Vianney, originally the patron saint of parish priests, and whom Pope Francis several years ago made ...