Category Archives: homily

I Chose the Mustang

Gospel of Luke 4:21-30 My first car was a 1981 Ford Mustang. It was blue, it had tinted windows and leather looking plastic bucket seats. I had worked and saved money and right before the start of my Junior year in high school my parents and I drove to Casper, Wyoming, wandered the lots ofContinueContinue reading “I Chose the Mustang”

Bring glad tidings to the poor

Gospel of Luke 1:1-4; 14-21 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to theContinueContinue reading “Bring glad tidings to the poor”

I like this Gospel story and not just because of the wine

Gospel of John 2:1-11 “Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs.” The Greek word meaning “sign” or “miracle” is used 17 times in John’s Gospel. In comparison, this same Greek word is found a total of 60 times throughout the rest of the New Testament. For the John, the signs of Jesus areContinueContinue reading “I like this Gospel story and not just because of the wine”

The hardest part of being a Christian is actually getting along with other Christians

Gospel of Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 Have any of you ever thought that the hardest part of being a Christian is actually getting along with other Christians? It’s not the faith part or the believing in the life, death, passion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ that presents the most difficulty. It’s not the call to charity,ContinueContinue reading “The hardest part of being a Christian is actually getting along with other Christians”

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Today we celebrate Christmas which is one of the most important days of the Church year. Christmas is the feast of the incarnation, the feast of God becoming flesh, the Nativity of the Lord. We celebrate God becoming man bringing salvation to all of mankind. Though we as Catholics differentiate the Christmas seasonContinueContinue reading “Merry Christmas”