Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily January 1, 2022 “Dear Friends in Jesus, there is a story of a young man who goes to a monk seeking to find God, the monk that takes him down to a river and dunks him in water. At first the young man thinks the monk is baptizing him. But after […]
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What Makes A Holy Family – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily December 26, 2021 “You know, I’ve only been a priest for about three, three and a half years, and often times people might ask me, why did I choose to become a parish priest? Why didn’t I think about becoming a Jesuit or a Franciscan or Benedictine or a religious order […]
Consecrate Your Family – Fr. Mohan Bathineni
Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily December 26, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus in the Gospel, we find child Jesus among the teachers of the law in the Temple of Jerusalem, asking them questions and answering their questions. People around are said to be astounded that he has wisdom, knowledge and understanding. How come he’s so wise, […]
The Light Of Christmas – Fr. Gary Pennings
Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily December 24, 2021 “On behalf of the staff and Fr. Viet and Father Mohan, the Deacons, all the staff here we want to wish you all a merry Christmas and hope you have a wonderful time with your family. The four o’clock mass, I was here alone. I didn’t have a […]
Born Into A Family – Fr. Gary Pennings
Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily December 26, 2021 “Yesterday, we celebrated Christmas, one of the two great feasts of the church year, Christmas and Easter, everything else kind of revolves around those two things: Christmas, the beginning of our salvation, the mystery of God becoming flesh, we bow every Sunday during the creed when we get […]
Truly God – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguen’s Homily December 24, 2021 “So since tonight is Christmas Eve, what better way than to start kind of with a Christmas story? Here is this kid. This child named Pete and Pete wanted a very expensive train set for Christmas and so his parents knew this, so his father, his father, asked […]
Greatest Act Of Love Ever – Dcn. Kris Kuckelman
Dcn. Kris Kuckelman’s Homily December 25, 2021 “Father Mohan, and I wish you all a very merry Christmas. You know, when we say Merry Christmas to someone or we, somebody says Merry Christmas to us if we’re honest with ourselves, usually what we think about are things like good food and, you know, good times […]
Give A Gift To Jesus – Fr. Mohan Bathineni
Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily December 19, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, it was a few days before Christmas, a wife woke up one morning and said, to her husband, ‘I had a dream last night in which, you gave me a diamond necklace for Christmas. What do you think it means?’ ‘Oh well,’ he replied, ‘you […]
Magnify The Lord – Fr. Gary Pennings
Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily December 19, 2021 “The first reading today, the prophet Micah prophecies about the coming messiah, he says, ‘When she who is to give birth has born.’ He’s speaking of Mary there, he’s prophesying about Mary. St. Luke, who seems to have a lot of inside information about Mary, and many think […]
The Gift Of Christmas – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily December 18, 2021 “So in the Gospel reading today, Mary after she received the message from the angel that she would bear a son and his name would be Jesus, she went in haste to the hill country of Judea to visit her, her cousin, Elizabeth. She went in haste. When’s […]