Episodes
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Discipleship - Why Accept the High Cost?
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
22nd Sunday Ordinary Time Yr A
Homily from St. Francis of Assisi Church, Belleville, WI
Our readings speak of the high cost of discipleship. Who would accept it and why?
Monday Aug 28, 2023
The Rock and the Keys
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Homily 21st Sunday Yr A
Drawing from the OT reading (Isaiah 22), we can understand better the role Jesus is giving Peter after his profession of the true faith.
Thanks to Dr. Brant Pitre for the Biblical scholarship, from which this homily derives.
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Jesus’ Strange Teaching Method
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Homily from 20th Sunday OT (Aug 20, 2023)
The encounter between Jesus and the Canaanite from Matthew 15 can be an off-putting. What is Jesus up to? Who knows the mind of God? But we can conjecture a bit...
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
The Opposing Winds
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Jesus walks on the water.
19th Sunday OT Yr A
Homily
What does our faith help us do when we face opposition?
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Unveiled Faces
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Homily August 6, 2023
His face shines with a brilliant light. Our faces, transformed by our encounter with Him, are meant to radiate that same light.
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Sorting the Weeds and the Wheat
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Homily from 16th Sunday OT Yr A.
Three applications of Jesus' parable of the Weeds and the Wheat:
Judgment
The Battle of the Thoughts
The Moral Life
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Creation Awaits the Revelation of the Children of God
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Homily 15th Sunday OT Yr A
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Live in the Spirit and Your Burden Will Be Lightened
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
14th Sunday OT Yr A
Homily from Fr. Dave
Mostly focusing on St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, Ch 8 and the opposition between the Spirit and "the flesh."
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Love Jesus, the Highest Good
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Homily from St. Victor Church, Monroe
July 2, 2023
13th Sunday OT Yr A
"Whoever loves [anything or anyone else] more than me is not worthy of me?" Who could honestly say that? Only the One who is the Highest Good.
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Say ”Yes”to Christ. Do Not Be Afraid!
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Inspired by Saint John Paul II, I share and reflect upon words of Pope Benedict in my last Sunday message for Good Shepherd Parish.
Do not be afraid to open wide the doors for Christ!
To GSP parishioners, I will miss you.
With love and gratitude,
Fr Dave