10/26/08 To The Men

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"What I want to feel and think and hear is, 'Paul, go out and be a man. Be dangerous. Risk your life for me. Be willing to stand up in a crowd and to say the truth, to respect other people, to give them what is due, and to know you'll probably be beaten, probably laughed at and pushed around. And yet if you know who you are, you will stand with the truth, and you will defend the truth, and you will live the truth.'"
Readings from October 26, 2008:

Exodus 22: 20-26

1 Thesselonians 1:5-10

Matthew 22:34-40

10/19/08 Give to God What is God's

Homily from the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"For if you understood what Jesus has said to us today, you would understand that that is the greatest question we can ask: What was I created for? How can I give back my life to the Lord?"
Readings from October 19, 2008:

Isaiah 45:1, 4-6

1 Thessalonians:1-5b

Matthew 22:15-21

10/12/08 What's Your Answer?

Homily from the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"We have been invited to taste and see the goodness of the Lord, but not with the eyes of man, but with the eyes of faith. When we receive the Eucharist, we are fed with the Bread of Angels, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and yet too often we fail to see it, we fail to taste It, and touch It, because too often we are simply for ourselves. We count the cost, we ask ourselves, 'What have I gotten out of this?'"

Readings from October 12, 2008:

Isaiah 25: 6-10

Phillipians 4: 12-14, 19-20

Matthew 22: 1-14

10/05/08 The Gift of Life

Homily from the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"What our Lord will simply ask us to do is to see if we can produce the good fruits of the Spirit. That we might create a place in which there is peace and justice, where there is an understanding that humanity is seen as not just an object to look at, or to use, but it's a reflection of the gift of God."

Readings from October 5th, 2008:

Isaiah 5:1-7

Philippians 4:6-9

Matthew 21:33-43