
Temptation - First Sunday in Lent - Mar 6, 2022
What is temptation? We know that everyone experiences it, even Jesus as we hear in our Gospel passage today. Listen to my homily to better understand temptation and how to avoid and overcome it.
What is temptation? We know that everyone experiences it, even Jesus as we hear in our Gospel passage today. Listen to my homily to better understand temptation and how to avoid and overcome it.
Almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, are given to us as great practices during the season of Lent to help us refocus on our relationship with God in preparation for Easter. Listen to my how many to learn more!
What past do you choose? How do you want to live your life? In our Gospel passage today Jesus challenges His disciples to make a choice. Listen to my homily to learn more!
Pray for those who mistreat you. In this homily, I share a story of when I lived those words out. What we hear in our Gospel is also seen lived out in our first reading by David. Jesus Himself in his Passion and Death and Resurrection practiced what he preached. Please listen to my homily to learn more!
Our faith is all about relationship with God, an intimate friendship as it is presented to us in Sacred Scripture or sometimes presented even as a romantic relationship. Today is also World Marriage Day and sacramental marriage represents Christ and His bride in the Church. Our Gospel passage today is perhaps best understood in the context of this broader concept of relationship. Listen to my homily to learn more about the blessings and woes in the context of relationship and how to pray like a pirate!
There are many methods of prayer, but I would like to share with you the one called Lectio Divina. Listen to my home to learn about my own experience with it what are the steps to this method!
Archbishop Rozanski initiated the All Things New strategic planning process and has shared the beginning of it with us in a letter. As part of the Homily I read the letter and talk about its contents. Please listen to my homily for more information.
How are we to understand the Bible? Doesn’t it contradict what we know by science? Listen to my homily to get a greater understanding of Holy Scripture and how we are to read it!
All of us desire to be known and loved for who we truly are. The faith, Scripture, and salvation history are all about a love story of God and humanity. In this love story God in the person of Jesus Christ marries His bride the Church, the community of believers. Listen to my homily to learn more.
What will it be like to be there at the baptism of the Lord? We can use imaginative prayer to get some insights to answer that question. In this family I lied imaginative prayer to go deeper into this mystery of the baptism of our Lord and baptism in general.
There’s such a richness to our Catholic faith. There’s the fulfillment of prophecy, so much symbolism and foreshadowing, and connections of so many things. God is very much at work and interested in our lives. Listen to my homily to learn more!
Mary helps us to understand Jesus correctly and always guides us to Him but sometimes we can be mistaken about her and her Son. Listen to my homily to learn more about our Blessed mother and her Son, Jesus Christ.