“The Law of Gradualness” - Homily for the 31 st Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2022   In our first reading today from the Book of Wisdom we...

  “The Preferential Option for the Poor” – Homily for the 30 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2022   Our First reading today from Sirach alm...

  “Both The New and The Old” Homily for the 29 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2022 I have always been struck by the image of Moses with his ...

"Washed in the River" - Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time   Like Naaman the Syrian in our first reading, who washed and ...

 This is a 15 minute film I originally purchased in 2015, and I am so glad that Grassroots Films has released it on Youtube!  It is a BEAUTI...

  Homily for the 27 th Sunday in Ordinary Time…From Servant to Friend Jesus says at the end of our Gospel today: “When you have done all ...

  The Memorial of Saint Francis 2022 As I have stated before in Homilies and even gave a retreat on this topic last Fall, as I was going t...

  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.” ...