Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Thursday, 12th Week in Ordinary Time
June 26, 2025, Matthew 7: 21-29 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062625.cfm Rock – Faith and Love Take Work. People in Florida know how important it is to build their houses on solid ground. Between the sinkholes and the floods, homes can wash away easily. Jesus built His Church on St. Peter’s faith with purpose and intent, which he called “The Rock.” […]
Novena to Bl. Antonio Rosmini – Day 5
PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a […]
Novena to Bl. Antonio Rosmini – Day 4
PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily forSolemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 24, 2025, Luke 1: 57-66, 80 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062425-Mass I Love It When a Plan Comes Together The A-Team’s television show was a mixture of drama and comedy in the early 1980s. George Peppard played the character Col. John Hannibal Smith. It didn’t matter how many odds were against the A-Team; they somehow managed to save […]
Novena to Bl. Rosmini – Day 3
PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Monday 12th Week in Ordinary Time
June 23, 2025, Matthew 7:1-5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062325.cfm Judging is Like Little Splinters. I remember our DRE and music director, Fred, telling me he picked up something with splinters working in the yard. There were small ones he couldn’t get out, and the doctor told him they had to work themselves out. Judging others is like those […]
Novena to Bl. Rosmini – Day 2
PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a […]
Day 1 – Novena to Bl. Antonio Rosmini
PRAYER FOR EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA Lord Jesus, you are the reason for our hope and your resurrection is proof that those who trust in you will never be disappointed. Teach us to live with a serene and trusting heart, so that by abandoning ourselves fearlessly to your divine Will we may be a […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
June 22, 2025, Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062225.cfm Food for the Journey It blows my mind to think that God the Father loves us so much and asked His Son to suffer, die, and rise from the dead to free us from our sins. And Jesus at the Last Supper gave His apostles the power to […]
Novena to Blessed Antonio Rosmini
To commemorate Bl. Antonio Rosmini feast day, on July 1, the community of the Institute of Charity, priests and Ascribed, will pray this novena. It begins on June 22nd and ends July 1.