Dominica XX per annum, B 18 August, A.D. MMXXIV Last Sunday, we saw how there are two “this is my Body”s – the “this is my body” of Holy Thursday, when Christ gave His body in the Eucharist to His Apostles for the first time, and the “this is my body” of Good Friday, […]
Read more "“A Person, not a Thing” — Sermon for the XX Sunday through the Year, 18 August, A.D. MMXXIV"“So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.” We’ve been reading the Lord’s Bread of Life discourse through the lens of St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Last Sunday, we […]
Read more "“This is My flesh for the life of the world” — Sermon for the XIX Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXIV"“You are looking for me not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.” We’ve mentioned the past couple of weeks that we are beginning the beautiful “Bread of Life Discourse” from St. John’s Gospel – the most complete and direct teaching on the Eucharist that our Lord gives […]
Read more "“The Food that Perishes” — Sermon for the XVIII Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXIV"Amidst the powerful yet familiar story of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes are two easily overlooked but very important details that St. John includes. The first is when the miracle takes place: “The Jewish feast of Passover was near.” John’s Gospel particularly takes account of time. It is John, for example, who […]
Read more "The Passover and Giving Thanks — Sermon for the XVII Sunday through the Year, A.D. MMXXIV"“His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.” The people coming in search of our Lord today were probably not primarily interested in learning. Most likely, they are sick and hungry. They have heard about the miracles worked […]
Read more "“Christian Docility” — Sermon for the XVI Sunday through the Year, MMXXIV"The Lord sends out twelve men today, men each with his own complicated history, his own trials and ways the Lord still needs him to grow. One particularly comes to mind, the ex-tax collector Matthew. When the tax collectors went out to John the Baptist and asked what they needed to do to truly […]
Read more "Forming a True Culture"“Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” There is a very popular quote that you likely have seen on Catholic t-shirts or alluded to in names of Catholic apostolates or […]
Read more "Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Sermon for the 14th Sunday through the Year, July 7, 2024"“For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” Christ invites us today to encounter His poverty, but this poverty is not necessarily the poverty you might expect. Of course, we know […]
Read more "“Touching the Sacred Poverty of Christ” — Sermon for the XIII Sunday through the Year, June 30, 2024"“Why are you terrified, do you not yet have faith?” There are times in everyone’s life when Christ seems to be asleep in the boat, when you are tempted to question God’s existence, or at least whether He really cares about and truly loves you, when you want to call out, “Do you not […]
Read more "“We accept Your holy will” — Sermon for the XII Sunday through the Year, 2024"My sermons can now be found on our parish’s website: https://www.stjohncatholic.com/sermons
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