Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily October 10, 2021 “This Gospel passage is often called the rich young man passage except the Gospel never actually says he’s rich or that he’s young. He runs to Jesus so we presume that he’s young because old men don’t usually run. I can attest to that and he kneels before […]

Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily October 3, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, there is a story of a bishop who did not ever miss an opportunity to teach and preach. One day he was in a barber shop receiving a hair cut from a young man who was his regular barber. In the course of his […]

Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily October 3, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, a woman whose husband had died went to a local news office and asked, ‘What does it cost me to have an obituary in your weekend edition?’ ‘It is $100 for five words.’ Answered the clerk. ‘Do you have any discounts?’ She questioned, ‘because all I […]

Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily October 3, 2021 “I think the two themes today in the scriptures are one, who is man? Who is mankind? What are we, the human person, our fancy term would be anthropology, what we are and then the meaning, God’s plan for marriage. In the book of Genesis if you read […]

Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily September 26, 2021 “The readings today present both invitation and warning. Invitation I would way to generosity both receiving generously and giving generously and a warning I think to what you might call a lack of generosity, a turning in on one’s self. It’s really a warning against the effects of […]

Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily September 26, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, there is a story of a lion that grew old and lay sick in his den. All his subjects came to see, console, and sympathize with him except the fox, so the wolf who had been jealous of the fox came to the lion […]

Fr. Mohan Bathineni’s Homily September 19, 2021 “Dear friends in Jesus, in case you are wondering as to who I am? I am Fr. Mohan from the diocese of Guntur, India ordained on the 18th of April 2001. I had been in the diocese of Gallup, NM for eight years and Tucson, AZ for two […]

Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily September 19, 2021 “The readings today address a common human condition, ambition. Now I don’t mean ambition in the sense of being motivated and not being lazy, that’s a good kind of ambition. I mean ambition that is selfish, ambition that elevates one’s own accomplishments and achievements above all else and […]

Fr. Gary Pennings’ Homily September 12, 2021 “‘Who do people say that I am?’ Jesus asked. And then more directly looking at the disciples he says, ‘Who do you say that I am?’ Who am I to you? You see, Jesus asked this probing question because understanding who Jesus is matters. It truly matters. When […]

Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily September 11, 2021 “In religion class a teacher told me, ‘There’s two questions that you will continue to ask yourselves throughout your whole life, two fundamental questions in our lives for when you’re a high schooler, grade schooler up until really your death.’ These two questions are who am I and […]