Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily May 2, 2021 “‘I am the vine and you are the branches.’ Jesus tells us in the Gospels and it’s a very apt metaphor for us to understand our relationship with Christ and particularly this time of year as we have Spring and there is so much growth happening all around […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily May 1, 2021 “What is the source of your life? What gets you up in the morning? What gives you hope when you’re in despair? What fulfills you? What is the source of your life? What nurtures and sustains your life? Have you ever thought about that, the root, the one […]

Dcn. Kris Kuckelman’s Homily April 25, 2021 “In our Gospel reading Jesus tells some pharisees and us that he is the Good Shepherd. At least at some level his audience would have understood this metaphor of the Good Shepherd. They were immersed in an agrarian society. They would have been familiar with sheep and shepherds […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily April 24, 2021 “Each year on this fourth Sunday of Easter we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. It is a time for us to reflect upon first of all Christ as the Good Shepherd and that image of Christ as the shepherd I think is an important one because it has to […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily April 18, 2021 “Every Sunday is a celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord and particularly and these Sundays of this Easter Season we are invited to reflect upon the different accounts of the Resurrection. This evening’s reading from St. Luke talks about the fact that Jesus came to the apostles […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily April 17, 2021 “In today’s Gospel we continue to hear stories of Christ appearing before his apostles. This is at the end of the Gospel of Luke and it’s just right after the road to Emmaus where appeared before two disciples walking away from Jerusalem and they saw him appear and […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily April 11, 2021 “This 8th day in the octave of Easter is a time of continuing to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. In a very real way every Sunday is a mini-celebration of the […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily April 4, 2021 “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! That responsorial psalm really summarizes the feelings we should have this day as we rejoice in the resurrection of the Lord for Jesus’ resurrection was always part of God’s eternal plan for […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily April 4, 2021 “I don’t know about you, but this is a glorious day for me. Not only that, even walking in and seeing the water in the font. I don’t know, there was something there, a visceral feeling, the plants…and then I realized that that font has been empty for […]

Dcn. John Stanley’s Homily March 28, 2021 “Today we come to that Sunday with the split personality. We start our celebration with an upbeat Gospel recounting Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, but then quickly in this second Gospel we just heard and participated in we are brought to the stark reality of the Passion of […]