Made Known

Forgive from the HEART, really?

Homily 17th Sept 2023

24th Sunday Yr A

Three conversions needed for us to go from where we are (hard-hearted towards those who have hurt us) to where Jesus wants us to be (living in the freedom of having forgiven).

Correcting Your Brother

Homily - 23rd Sunday OT Yr A

Sept 10, 2023

The Gospel challenge to love your brothers and sisters enough to call them to conversion.

 

Discipleship - Why Accept the High Cost?

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?

 

The Rock and the Keys

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.

Jesus’ Strange Teaching Method

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...

 

The Opposing Winds

Jesus walks on the water.  

19th Sunday OT Yr A

Homily

What does our faith help us do when we face opposition?

Unveiled Faces

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.

Sorting the Weeds and the Wheat

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

Creation Awaits the Revelation of the Children of God

Homily 15th Sunday OT Yr A

Live in the Spirit and Your Burden Will Be Lightened

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."