Reflections on the Sunday readings from the Catholic Lectionary for Mass. Includes homilies, sermons, and other thoughts.
The Need for Personal Lawncare The classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront” with Marlon Brando has a scene that is very similar to today’s gospel. All the longshoremen show up …
Making the Right Choice One of the things we Americans love most is our freedom and our ability to make choices. Yet, sometimes having to make choices can be very …
The Sadness of Being Ordinary When the Israelites finally enter the promised land, their mission was to be an example to the pagan people they encounter (or else, in some scriptures, …
How can this man give us his flesh to eat? In today’s gospel, Jesus commands us to eat his body and drink his blood. He tells us that his flesh …
Our Bodies Are Holy and Destined for Heaven [This homily was given at the archdiocesan Pro-Life Mass held each month at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church in Kansas City, KS] …
Tending Well the Fire of God The antiphon for today’s psalm exclaims, “Blessed be God who filled my soul with fire!” We often used this image of fire to describe …
Cheerfully Knowing Where You’re Going The words of Jesus in today’s Gospel can sound harsh as he tells us, “Whoever hates is life in this world will preserve it for …
Another New Evangelization The story of the early Church is filled withthe tales of the apostles going out and spreading the faith all over the world. Little by little, the …
Glimpses of God to Keep Us Going Jesus gave Peter, James, and John a great gift on Mt. Tabor. For a brief moment, they saw the divinity of Jesus as …
Mother of God and Our Mother The Council of Ephesus in the year 431 officially affirmed what the Church had always believed, that Mary is rightly called Theotokos or “Mother …
I Saw God in a Man When Peter sees Jesus walking on the sea, he briefly forgets all the trouble they are in on account of the storm. Instead, he …
Moses Learns How to Lead Moses takes on the weight of leading God’s people and finds it too heavy. God reminds him that he’s not supposed to be carrying it …
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Last week in part 1 of a 4 part series on the Eucharist, I spoke of the Mass in the context of the traditional “family …
We Need a Jubilee…Especially for Marriage St. Alphonsus is one of the 33 doctors of the Church and is known for his teachings on the Eucharist, Mary, and the moral …
Following is the text of the homily I gave at the annual Mass for Life held in Topeka on the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade. The …