-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00pm Sat and Sun 8:00am and 12:30pm
New Vision, a new morality, a new Feeling, and now a new Spirituality
Can this new vision that god has of your future be translated into a new habit of holiness? Let's see!
Friday, December 20, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
December 15 Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass and preaching this weekend on Sunday at 11:00 AM and at 6:00 PM
Can you feel what's new in God's vision for you?
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass and preaching this weekend on Sunday at 11:00 AM and at 6:00 PM
Can you feel what's new in God's vision for you?
Thursday, December 5, 2013
December 8 homily prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat eve and 9:30am Sunday
"What ought we to DO?"
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-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat eve and 9:30am Sunday
"What ought we to DO?"
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Homily prep for Advent I, December 1, 2013
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00pm on Sat and 11:00 on Sunday
What's New?
New York? New Jersey? New Vision of your life with God!
Click HERE to view homily prep Vlog
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00pm on Sat and 11:00 on Sunday
What's New?
New York? New Jersey? New Vision of your life with God!
Friday, November 22, 2013
Video Homily Prep for Nov 24 - Christ the King
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Nov 17th Homily prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat, 11:00 am and 6:00pm Sunday
What is your suffering saying?
It is the manner of our suffering, the way we endure or persevere the tough stuff, that speaks most loudly of our relationship to Jesus Christ. "No whining on the yacht" is the classic line one of our parishioners has coined meaning that our complaining about discomfort is "oxymoronic" - doesn't make sense. What our complaining does reveal is our level of or lack of connection to Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
So, how's your suffering? What is it revealing about your friendship with Jesus? Or lack thereof?
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat, 11:00 am and 6:00pm Sunday
What is your suffering saying?
It is the manner of our suffering, the way we endure or persevere the tough stuff, that speaks most loudly of our relationship to Jesus Christ. "No whining on the yacht" is the classic line one of our parishioners has coined meaning that our complaining about discomfort is "oxymoronic" - doesn't make sense. What our complaining does reveal is our level of or lack of connection to Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
So, how's your suffering? What is it revealing about your friendship with Jesus? Or lack thereof?
Friday, November 8, 2013
November 10 video Homily prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 8:00 and 12:30
Do you have any resurrection in your Christianity?Click here
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 8:00 and 12:30
Do you have any resurrection in your Christianity?Click here
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Nov 3 homily prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 9:30 and 12:30
Where are you looking for the encounter with Jesus?
Click HERE to view video prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 9:30 and 12:30
Where are you looking for the encounter with Jesus?
Click HERE to view video prep
Friday, October 25, 2013
October 27 video Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 Sat, 11:00am and 6:00pm Sunday
Where are you on the map? On which map?
Click HERE to see October 27 video prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 Sat, 11:00am and 6:00pm Sunday
Where are you on the map? On which map?
Click HERE to see October 27 video prep
Friday, October 18, 2013
Oct 20 homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat and 8:00, 9:30, and 12:30 Sunday(yes, it's a lot😃)
Hold Hands
I heard a doctor of sorts or some expert give a talk on marriage many years ago and his recommendation to married people was the they "argue or fight holding hands". I realized then that the doctor was capitalizing upon the fundamental gesture of the Rite of Marriage which is "join your right hands and repeat after me". The joined hands of husband and wife are a beautiful image of the "two becoming one flesh" and the mutual exchange of consent.
When I think about the recommendation to "fight holding hands" I think I get the point-that while we might be disagreeing about many things we are still united in love for one another. It's the "holding hands" portion of the argument that really matters. Two spouses might be very far apart in their thoughts, words, and problems however if they are still holding hands they are communicating the security of their bond as one.
I must say that I have often seen couples doing various things while holding hands. Often a couple will be eating dinner in a restaurant and holding one hand across the table as they talk and eat. Obviously, people who are in love will hold hands while they're walking down the street, sitting in church, waiting in the doctors office, sitting in the hospital, attending the wake of a loved one, many different activities all carried out from the context of "the two becoming one flesh".
The Gospel parable of the dishonest judge and the persistent widow is set in the context of the "need to pray always without growing weary". The parable ends with Jesus asking the question "will the Son of Man find any faith on earth when he returns?" It seems to me that "praying" is to the life of faith lived in communion with God as "join your right hands" is to the marriage relationship.
Holding hands is not the solution to the problems of marriage, holding hands is the sign of the fundamental commitment of marriage in spite of the problems.
If you are a person of faith you must be praying. Too often we are concerned about the answer to our prayers. I seem to think that praying is the answer to faith's problems. We pray not to get something from God, but because we have something with God-a relationship of love and trust.
Could you use this image and understanding of faith and prayer in your explanation of why you are a believer to someone who has no understanding of our Christian faith? Let me know
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat and 8:00, 9:30, and 12:30 Sunday(yes, it's a lot😃)
Hold Hands
I heard a doctor of sorts or some expert give a talk on marriage many years ago and his recommendation to married people was the they "argue or fight holding hands". I realized then that the doctor was capitalizing upon the fundamental gesture of the Rite of Marriage which is "join your right hands and repeat after me". The joined hands of husband and wife are a beautiful image of the "two becoming one flesh" and the mutual exchange of consent.
When I think about the recommendation to "fight holding hands" I think I get the point-that while we might be disagreeing about many things we are still united in love for one another. It's the "holding hands" portion of the argument that really matters. Two spouses might be very far apart in their thoughts, words, and problems however if they are still holding hands they are communicating the security of their bond as one.
I must say that I have often seen couples doing various things while holding hands. Often a couple will be eating dinner in a restaurant and holding one hand across the table as they talk and eat. Obviously, people who are in love will hold hands while they're walking down the street, sitting in church, waiting in the doctors office, sitting in the hospital, attending the wake of a loved one, many different activities all carried out from the context of "the two becoming one flesh".
The Gospel parable of the dishonest judge and the persistent widow is set in the context of the "need to pray always without growing weary". The parable ends with Jesus asking the question "will the Son of Man find any faith on earth when he returns?" It seems to me that "praying" is to the life of faith lived in communion with God as "join your right hands" is to the marriage relationship.
Holding hands is not the solution to the problems of marriage, holding hands is the sign of the fundamental commitment of marriage in spite of the problems.
If you are a person of faith you must be praying. Too often we are concerned about the answer to our prayers. I seem to think that praying is the answer to faith's problems. We pray not to get something from God, but because we have something with God-a relationship of love and trust.
Could you use this image and understanding of faith and prayer in your explanation of why you are a believer to someone who has no understanding of our Christian faith? Let me know
Friday, October 11, 2013
Blessings and Blessor
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 8:00am and 11:00am
Are We Making a Costly Mistake?
No video prep this week. I just could not get it together.
Nonetheless, I am concerned with the temptation in our current secular culture to focus on blessing, blessedness, presence of Angels, spiritual wholeness, tranquility, compassion. All the wonderful stuff that I hear out of public officials, young people, and utopian-thinking "hippies".
Everyone, from our doctors, psychologists, television hosts, healthy living experts, is telling us that we simply need to focus on the blessing of life, multiply the blessing, promote the blessing, and celebrate the blessing. As if there is such a thing as "free-floating blessing" out there (that's a thinly veiled reference to "free-floating anxiety" of the 1970s).
What the Scriptures make clear to me today and this weekend is that there is (like "free-floating anxiety") no such thing as "free-floating blessing". Every blessing, goodness, miracle, Angel, has a "Blessor" = God. Our secularized world refuses to acknowledge God. And even our religious world can become fixated upon the Blessing, getting the fix, being pleased in this life apart from the source of blessing, goodness, beauty, life = God.
The gift of the Samaritan in today's Gospel story is not that he realized he was healed, "all 10 realized they were healed". The blessing of the one, the unexpected one, the Samaritan, was that he recognized the God of his blessing.
Is it possible that we, in our pragmatism, have separated the purpose of our lives from the God of our purpose? Isn't it possible that we have become fixated on living the blessing (even in this present moment) while we fail to recognize the God of who blesses? As if the blessing is about us rather than about God and God's kingdom, God's purpose, God's will.
What are you thinking? Does this connect with your faith life in anyway?
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 8:00am and 11:00am
Are We Making a Costly Mistake?
No video prep this week. I just could not get it together.
Nonetheless, I am concerned with the temptation in our current secular culture to focus on blessing, blessedness, presence of Angels, spiritual wholeness, tranquility, compassion. All the wonderful stuff that I hear out of public officials, young people, and utopian-thinking "hippies".
Everyone, from our doctors, psychologists, television hosts, healthy living experts, is telling us that we simply need to focus on the blessing of life, multiply the blessing, promote the blessing, and celebrate the blessing. As if there is such a thing as "free-floating blessing" out there (that's a thinly veiled reference to "free-floating anxiety" of the 1970s).
What the Scriptures make clear to me today and this weekend is that there is (like "free-floating anxiety") no such thing as "free-floating blessing". Every blessing, goodness, miracle, Angel, has a "Blessor" = God. Our secularized world refuses to acknowledge God. And even our religious world can become fixated upon the Blessing, getting the fix, being pleased in this life apart from the source of blessing, goodness, beauty, life = God.
The gift of the Samaritan in today's Gospel story is not that he realized he was healed, "all 10 realized they were healed". The blessing of the one, the unexpected one, the Samaritan, was that he recognized the God of his blessing.
Is it possible that we, in our pragmatism, have separated the purpose of our lives from the God of our purpose? Isn't it possible that we have become fixated on living the blessing (even in this present moment) while we fail to recognize the God of who blesses? As if the blessing is about us rather than about God and God's kingdom, God's purpose, God's will.
What are you thinking? Does this connect with your faith life in anyway?
Thursday, October 3, 2013
October 6 Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30pm on Sat and 9:30am on Sunday
Is faith the Opposite of Complaining?
Click HERE to view Video Homily Prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30pm on Sat and 9:30am on Sunday
Is faith the Opposite of Complaining?
Click HERE to view Video Homily Prep
Thursday, September 26, 2013
September 29 Homily Video Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30pm Sat and 12:30pm Sun
What's the opposite of love? Clue: not hate
CLICK here to view video prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30pm Sat and 12:30pm Sun
What's the opposite of love? Clue: not hate
CLICK here to view video prep
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Homily Prep September 22
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 Sat, 8:00 and 12:30 on Sunday
Handle with Care!
Do you have the experience of tending or caring for something, a gift, that is or was obviously God's? This is stewardship. How did your recognition of that gift as belonging to God affect the way you "tended" to it?
What if you recognized more and more of your life and experience as gift of God? You might more and more handle all of life as a good steward....with tender care.
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 Sat, 8:00 and 12:30 on Sunday
Handle with Care!
Do you have the experience of tending or caring for something, a gift, that is or was obviously God's? This is stewardship. How did your recognition of that gift as belonging to God affect the way you "tended" to it?
What if you recognized more and more of your life and experience as gift of God? You might more and more handle all of life as a good steward....with tender care.
Friday, September 13, 2013
September 15 Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat, 9:30am and 6:00pm Sunday
Lost and Found - both at the same time
Click here to see Video Prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat, 9:30am and 6:00pm Sunday
Lost and Found - both at the same time
Click here to see Video Prep
Friday, September 6, 2013
Homily prep September 8
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4pm and 11am.
Sept 8 homily prep
Are you possessed?
Click HERE to view Video Prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4pm and 11am.
Sept 8 homily prep
Are you possessed?
Click HERE to view Video Prep
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Homily Prep September 1st
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 12:30pm Sunday
Humility - the Hard Way
A wise man recently was quoted to have said that "your pain is the breaking open of the shell that covers your understanding".
There only one way to true humility and that's the hard way we can elect it or endure it painfully. Neither is painless.
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 12:30pm Sunday
Humility - the Hard Way
A wise man recently was quoted to have said that "your pain is the breaking open of the shell that covers your understanding".
There only one way to true humility and that's the hard way we can elect it or endure it painfully. Neither is painless.
Friday, August 23, 2013
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30, 8:00, 12:30pm
Adult Disciples of Jesus OR Disciplined Children of Church
Click here to see Video Prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30, 8:00, 12:30pm
Adult Disciples of Jesus OR Disciplined Children of Church
Click here to see Video Prep
Friday, August 16, 2013
Homily Prep August 18th
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email (Just request it in the comments)
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat & 11:00 Sunday
What has your discipleship or faith cost you?
Click here to see Video Prep
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 5:30 Sat & 11:00 Sunday
What has your discipleship or faith cost you?
Click here to see Video Prep
Friday, August 9, 2013
August 11th Homily Prep
-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00, 12:30 and 6:00pm
Like a New Mother's Sleep!
Click here to see "Video Prep"
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00, 12:30 and 6:00pm
Like a New Mother's Sleep!
Click here to see "Video Prep"
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