Category Archive for ‘Homilies’

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
On this day, we hear various ways that Jesus was trying to teach the crowds about the concept of the “kingdom of heaven.”
This homily focuses on one of today’s parables, that

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
On this day, we hear a beautiful poetic passage from Isaiah (55: 10-11) about how God sends down rain and snow to the earth, but that it does not return to

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
On this day, we hear St. Paul tell the Romans, “Brothers and sisters: You are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
On this day, we hear a delightful story from the Second Book of Kings about the concept of hospitality to a religious leader.
In this story, we encounter a prophet by the

Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
On this day, we encounter the concept of “fear.”
In the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah, for example, we read a passage that could have been written by a person suffering

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, formerly more commonly known as Corpus Christi.
This feast celebrates that part of the Eucharist (Mass) known as Holy Communion or the Blessed Sacrament.
In Catholic Christian

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity.
This feast celebrates the central belief of our faith about God, that is, that there is only One God but Three Divine Persons in God.  The three Persons are God

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the feast of Pentecost, the birthday of the Catholic Church in particular and Christianity in general.
Pentecost celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the first disciples.  Of all the stories of the New Testament, the

Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord.  This feast celebrates Jesus ascending into heaven after he had appeared to his disciples at various times after his Resurrection from the dead.
Before ascending into heaven, however, Jesus

Today Catholic Christians celebrate the Fifth Sunday of Easter.
In the passage we have today from the Acts of the Apostles, we learn about the institution of the diaconate by the early Church leaders.
We learn that the early Church was growing.