Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily November 14, 2020 “As we come closer to the end of this Liturgical year we reflect more definitely upon the end times and that sense of accountability. None of us, I don’t think, really loves to be accountable and yet accountability is so very very important and crucial and it’s a […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily November 8, 2020 “That Gospel to me is always a little bit of a paradox or difficulty because we’re not used to that custom of having the virgins there waiting for the bridegroom and going out and their lamps and all that so that’s a little foreign to us, but nevertheless […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily November 7, 2020 “St. Augustine had this phrase. It really echoes to all of us. ‘Our hearts are restless until they rest in you my God.’ Our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Think about that. Think about the desires of your life, of your heart and where does […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily November 1, 2020 “Today we celebrate All Saints’ Day and have you ever been into a church and actually, well actually our church has beautiful stained glass here, but most churches have stained glass don’t they, surrounded, there’s never usually just clear windows that you can look outside and the stained […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily November 1, 2020 “Today we celebrate this great feast of All Saints. It’s one of my favorite holy days because it’s a celebration of all the saints who live with God in the glory of eternal life. Certainly all of those canonized saints, some of whom were referred to in the […]

Dcn. Ken Billinger’s Homily October 25, 2020 “The Gospel from Matthew today, Jesus makes it really clear. There’s two greatest commandments: love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all you mind and the second is love your neighbor as yourself. It’s really a culmination of the Ten Commandments when you think about […]

Dcn. Kris Kuckelman’s Homily October 25, 2020 “In our Gospel reading today we have a pharisee asking Jesus what the single greatest commandment is and interestingly Jesus responds with two commandments and that’s because these two greatest commandments are inseparable. You can not possibly love God with your whole heart and soul and mind without […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily October 18, 2020 “Now this is what you call a catch 22 or Jesus is between a rock and a hard place because no matter what he answers it’s difficult. In today’s Gospel the pharisees try to trap Jesus and they ask him this because if he answers that you have […]

Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily October 17, 2020 “I’ve always liked that particular Gospel and the effort on the part of the Jewish leaders to trap Jesus because that’s precisely what they were trying to do. They wanted to trap him and they thought they had the perfect dilemma for him where he would not be […]

Fr. Jared Loehr’s Homily October 11, 2020 “It’s a great joy to be here this evening with you. My name is Fr. Jared Leohr. I grew up in the parish here at Ascension when it was back over at St. Thomas Aquinas and so it’s a great joy to come here for one big hurrah […]