Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily November 23, 2019 “Today marks the end of the Liturgical calendar and appropriately it ends with the Solemnity of Christ the King, Christ the King that we celebrate today. Now what does it mean for Christ to be the King because for all of us, especially here in America, we don’t […]
Help My Unbelief – Fr. Tom Tank
Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily November 10, 2019 “Certainly that Gospel reading this evening is one that points to the resurrection of the dead. The Sadducees denied the resurrection, but Jesus very firmly affirms the resurrection that our God is the God of the living, not the God of the dead and all are called to […]
To Give A Glimpse – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily November 9, 2019 “The reason why I wanted to read the long version (of the Gospel today) was the Sadducees put this question to Jesus. They didn’t believe in the resurrection so they thought they could trick Jesus by their wording, so they basically asked, ‘Who’s husband is she in the […]
Open Our House – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily November 3, 2019 “When I work with some of the kids at the school or even in school systems growing up I always saw that I often compared myself with others to see how I was doing whether it be in school or sports, always comparing myself to the other person, […]
Search For The Lord – Fr. Tom Tank
Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily November 2, 2019 “If you go to the town of Jericho today, you’ll find there a very large sycamore tree. It is definitely not the same one that Zacchaeus climbed, but it is still there as kind of a memorial to this famous citizen of theirs who climbed up the sycamore […]
He Came For Sinners – Dcn. John Stanley
Dcn. John Stanley’s Homily October 27, 2019 “This Gospel that we heard today, we’ve heard many times and I think of it as part 2 of Jesus’ lesson on prayer last week for last week on Sunday we heard the Gospel of the persistent widow and how through nagging the unjust judge she finally received […]
Poverty Of Spirit – Fr. Tom Tank
Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily October 27, 2019 “That responsorial psalm today certainly challenges ‘The Lord hears the cry of the poor and that first reading today emphasizes that as well that God has a special concern for those who recognize their poverty and certainly that is referring to people who are materially poor, financially poor, […]
God Answers Prayers – Fr. Tom Tank
Fr. Tom Tank’s Homily October 20, 2019 “Jesus in the Gospel today certainly exhorts us to pray with persistence and he uses that very simple image of the widow who was continually pestering the judge in order to get a decision and that the judge finally gives her a decision and how that perseverance pays […]
Persist In Prayer – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily October 19, 2019 “There used to be a show I would watch. I think it was on the Discovery Channel and the show was called, ‘I Shouldn’t Be Alive’ and really the show was a premise of people in these tragic accidents who are maybe in the middle of nowhere in […]
Thorn In His Side – Fr. Viet Nguyen
Fr. Viet Nguyen’s Homily October 13, 2019 “You know in today’s reading and Gospel I think the main thing we can learn is that the one thing we want to get rid of is the one thing usually that will bring us closest to God. The one thing we want to get rid of often […]