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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily December 12, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, a preacher was preaching his congregation that they should make their facial expressions harmonize with whatever they were speaking about. For example, he said, ‘When you speak of Heaven your faces must light up, your eyes must shine and those with you must find […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily December 12, 2021 “So the first thing you will see is that I am wearing rose. A lot of people might say this is pink, but the liturgical calendar calls it rose. You know how I remember that that is that Jesus did not pink. He rose. That’s a good way […]

Fr. Gary Penings’ Homily December 11, 2021 “‘Rejoice in the Lord, always again, I say, rejoice, your kindness should be known to all the Lord is near,’ St. Paul tells us. Now, John says he’s preaching the Good News, but some of his messaging doesn’t sound so joyful. Just prior to this passage we had […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily December 5, 2021 You know, this season of Advent is a season of waiting. It’s a season of waiting, but not a passive waiting but a more active type of waiting. It’s a time to wait, but yet to yearn. Let your hearts yearn for the Lord because it’s in the […]

Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily December 5, 2021 “For those of us here in the northern hemisphere, the days keep getting shorter as we approach Christmas, as we approach the winter solstice. There’s more darkness in the 24 hours than there is light, but as the days grow shorter, those of us who believe in the […]