Be Not Afraid Wk 2: Love and Peace
Be Not Afraid Week: Love and Peace www.saintmary.life/homilyguide Jesus is talking about both love and peace this week. So what…
Be Not Afraid Wk 1: Love and Glory
Be Not Afraid Week 1 Love and Glory www.saintmary.life/homilyguide All of us want to know we are loved, yes? Some…
Things Jesus Never Said Week 4
Things Jesus didn’t say Week 4: You won’t have bad daysFourth Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd) (Mother’s Day) www.saintmary.life/homilyguide In…
Things Jesus Never Said Week 3
Things Jesus Never Said Week 3Stay in Your Comfort Zone www.saintmary.life/homilyguide It is the third week of our message series called…
Things Jesus Never Said Week 2
Things Jesus Didn’t Say Week 2 You Get What You Deserve (Divine Mercy Sunday) (First Communion) www.saintmary.life/homilyguide This is…
Things Jesus Never Said Week 1
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide Welcome to the first week of our new message series called Things Jesus Never Said. Over the next four…
Seriously God? Week 6: Pain is a problem
Week Six: Seriously, Why Did He Have to Die? www.saintmary.life/homilyguide We are in the sixth week of a series called…
Seriously God? Wk 5: You Are In My Way.
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide We are in the fourth week of our series for Lent called Seriously, God? Making Sense When Life Doesn’t…
Seriously God? Wk 4: Those people are in charge?
Week Four: Seriously, Those People are in Charge? 20 March 2022 – Third Sunday of Lent www.saintmary.life/homilyguide We are…
Seriously God? Wk 3: God, You Let Me Down.
saintmary.life/homilyguide We are in the third week of our message series for Lent called Seriously, God? Making Sense When Life…
Seriously, God? Week 2: When God says No
Week Two: When God says No. First Sunday of Lent 6 March 2022 www.saintmary.life/homilyguide We are in the second week…
Seriously God? Week 1: The Seeing Leading the Blind
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide As we prepare for Lent, which begins this Wednesday, we begin a new message series called Seriously, God?: Making…
Sharing the Gift Week 4: The Insanity of God’s Love
Share the Gift Week 4 – Insanity of God’s love 20 February 2022 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Have you…
Sharing the Gift Week 3: Heart of God
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide Welcome to the wonderful third week of our message series, Sharing the Gift. We have been discussing how you…
Sharing the Gift Week 2: Across the Diocese
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide This is the second week of our four week message series called sharing the gift. Last week we talked…
Sharing the Gift Week 1: Just Imagine!
Today we begin a new 4 week message series called Sharing the Gift. Imagine this. Wouldn’t it be great if…
Masterpiece Week 4: Fulfilled in your hearing
Masterpiece Week 4 Fulfilled in Your Hearing 23 January 2022 HOMILY GUIDE This is the fourth and final week of…
Masterpiece Wk 3: Three Manifestations
www.saintmary.life/homilyguide Today’s Gospel story of the wedding feast at Cana follows well upon the gospel stories of the past two…
Masterpiece Wk 2: New Creation
HOMILY GUIDE Masterpiece Week 2: New CreationThe Baptism of the Lord9 January 2022 This is the second week of…
Masterpiece Wk 1: Less Than Perfect
As we start this new year, welcome to our new four-part homily series we call Masterpiece. The idea of a…
The Holy Family
Years ago one of our priests, Fr. Kevin Johnson, told a family story. Two kids begged their mom for a…
Advent-ually Christmas: Expect the Unexpected
Advent-ually: Expect the UnexpectedThe Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Night What do you expect on Christmas Day?…
Advent-ually Week 4: Longing for Peace
Welcome back to our Advent homily series we call Advent-ually. Adventually is a play on the word eventually. For the last…
Advent-ually Week 2: Longing for Hope
Welcome to the second week of our Advent Series called Advent-ually. Advent-ually is a play on the word eventually. We…
Advent-ually Week 1: Longing for Love
November 28 – Advent-ually Week 1Longing for Love Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which is also the first…
Christ the King: Evangelization, you can do it!
When we say Jesus Christ is the King, we mean he reigns in our heart. The sense you can have…
Made for More: Sharing the Gift, wk 5
Welcome to the final homily in our series titled Made for More. Over the last four weeks we have explored…
Made for More Wk 4: Conduit of God’s Grace
November 7 – Made for More Week 4 – Conduit of God’s Grace We are all called into Jesus’ vision and…
Made for More Wk 3: Engage with God & Others
Welcome to the third week of our homily, series Made for More! Tomorrow (Monday) is All Saints Day. Our Gospel…
Made for More Week 2: Practicing Prayer
Made for More Week 2: P.R.A.Y. This is the second week of our message series Made for more. In the…
Made for More, Week 1: To Serve with Love
Today we begin our new message series we call Made for More. If you are baptized, you are made for…
Greatest of All Time Week 4: All Things are possible with God
28th Sunday of Ordinary Time10 October 2021 This is the final week of our message series called the Greatest of…
The Greatest of All Time Wk 3: Better Together
This is the third week of our message series we call The Greatest of All Time. You know who the…
Greatest of All Time: Week 2
This is the second week of our message series we are calling The Greatest of All Time. In the sports…
Greatest of All Time Week 1: Who is the greatest?
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time19 September, 2021 Today we begin a new message series called G.O.A.T. That’s G-O-A-T or in…
Does this Shock you? Wk 4 Faith In Motion
This is the fourth and final week of our message series we call Does this Shock you? The first week…
Does this shock you? Week 3-Prayer
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time5 September 2021 This is the third week of our message series called:Does this shock you?…
Does this shock you? Wk 2 Serve
Does this shock you? Serve (Week 2)29 August 202122nd Sunday in Ordinary Time This is the second week of our…
Does This Shock You? Wk 1 Invite
Welcome to the first week of our message series we call Does this Shock you. Sometimes the things Jesus says…
You Are Sacred and Have a High Destiny
Today is a day of great hope for all of us, hope of future glory. Today is a day that…
Jesus: Do you believe?
During the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people died alone in hospitals, and nursing homes, because their families…
Jesus: Our Source and Summit
Over the next few weeks, the gospel readings will be taken from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Saint…
Jesus’ Miracle: Loaves and Fish
The Gospel passage we heard today comes from the sixth chapter of St. John’s Gospel. The sixth chapter of John…
The famous poet William Butler Yeats wrote: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the…
Faith sharing rejected? Here is the answer.
During the last few weeks, we heard how God called some of the Old Testament prophets and how the people…
True Freedom and The Law
Why was Jesus not able to perform any mighty deed in his hometown of Nazareth? And what does that have…
Can you reach out to Jesus?
Jonathan Roumie is an actor who is best known for playing Jesus in the series, “The Chosen”. However, for several…
Life is a steady diet of change, growth, and new things isn’t it? When we were very young, the story…
God’s Masterpiece: Sunday Homily June 13, 2021:There was a time, not so long ago, when we simply weren’t, when not…
Next Door III: Eating and Drinking
We are in the third week and final week of our series Next Door: The Art of Neighboring. The premise…
Next Door II – What’s in a name? Trinity Sunday
We are in the second week of our message series Next Door: The Art of Neighboring. The premise of this…
Next Door: Week 1 Walking Down Your Street
Today, we’re beginning a brand new message series. This series is called Next Door: The Art of Neighboring. Appropriately, we’re…
Ascension of the Lord
Today we’re wrapping up our Easter series Love Lives. With that in mind, here is something to ponder. The love…
Loves Lives: Week 6
Happy Mother’s Day! Mothers’ Day is all about an expression of love for our Mothers. In recent weeks, the…
Love Lives, Week 5
Let’s talk about love. Why not? For this is week five of our homily-message we call “Love Lives.” If you…
Love Lives: Week 4
We continue our celebration of the resurrection of the Lord on this fourth Sunday of Easter. We’re also in the…
Love Lives: Week 3
We are in the third week of a series for the Easter season we are calling “Love Lives.” Whenever we…
Loves Lives: Week 2
We continue our celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord on this Second Sunday of Easter. Today is also…
Love Lives: Easter Sunday
As we celebrate Easter, we also begin a new message series. As a parish we take a topic and,…
Palm Sunday 2021
Today is Palm Sunday. It is a unique Sunday in Lent because it marks the beginning of Holy Week….
No Offense: Week 5
Welcome to the final week of our Lenten message series called ‘No Offense.’ The series is based on three important…
No Offense: Week 4
This is the fourth week of our Lenten series called No Offense. Over the last three weeks we have…
No Offense: Week 3
This is the third week of our Lenten series called No Offense. Today we want to take a look…
No Offense: Week 2
This is the second week of our Lenten series all about offense and offensive behavior. There are three key facts…
No Offense: Week 1
We are beginning a brand new message series for the season of Lent, we are calling No Offense. Wouldn’t it…
CSA Weekend February 2021: Bishop’s Message
February 5, 2021 Dear Brothers and Sisters, It goes without saying that 2020 was quite a year for everyone. We…
Defining Moments: Week 6
Today we are wrapping up our six week series on Defining Moments. If you have missed any of those homilies,…
Defining Moments: Week 5
God uses moments in your life to reveal his connection to you, his purpose and plan for your life and…
Defining Moments: Week 4
This is the Fourth week of a six part series we are calling Defining Moments. We’re looking at those moments…
This is the third week of our series Defining Moments. Defining Moments are brief experiences, so brimming with meaning…
Defining Moments: Week 2
This is the second week of a six part series we are calling Defining Moments. Defining Moments are brief…
Defining Moments: Week 1
Psychologists tell us that when we evaluate a single experience or even a season of our life, we don’t…
Unwrapping Christmas: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Merry Christmas! And if we continue to wish people a merry Christmas and leave our decorations up for a couple…
The Secrets of Every Happy Family: Mothers
Welcome to the third week of our homily series we’re calling “The Secrets of Every Happy Family.” This series has…