Fr. Rick’s Two Minute Homily Thursday 25th Week in Ordinary Time
September 26, 2024, Luke 9:7-9 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092624.cfm Conscience And The Voice Of The Lord Sports have referees and umpires. Courts of law have judges. When presented with the facts of a case, they make unbiased decisions. They save teams and society so much turmoil so life can go on. And for the very same reason, God […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Wednesday, 25th Week in Ordinary Time
September 27, 2023, Luke 9:1-6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092723.cfm Have No Fear to Hold the Pain of Another in Your Heart. How many times have dictators risen and fallen in our world? They use their authority to bully their people into subhuman existence. And should anyone oppose these dictators? They make their authority felt! Some dictators come […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Tuesday, 25th Week in Ordinary Time
September 24, 2024, Luke 8:19-21 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092424.cfm Jesus Is Always Speaking To Us. It’s mysterious to me, but sometimes, I hear a voice inside of me telling me to do something. Other times, a thought keeps coming back to me to call somebody, visit somebody, or pray for someone. I am a slow learner, but I […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Monday, 25th Week in Ordinary Time
September 34, 2024, Luke 8:16-18 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092324.cfm My Two Dads When I was five or six, my Dad added a bathroom to our house. He had the foundation completed, and the brick was about three feet high. He told me not to play there, but did I listen? He went into the house for lunch and […]
Fr. Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 22, 2024, Mark 8:27-35 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091524.cfm Identity – Who Are You? Identity theft is a big problem today. Companies are constantly trying to keep ahead of thieves. My heart goes out to people who lose everything to a thief. There is another identity far more important than the information we have about ourselves and our […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle
September 21, 2024, Matthew 9:9-13https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092124.cfm Dancing with Jesus. It is not hard to imagine Peter carrying his load of fish from his boat to the tax collector’s booth. He’s been out all night in a rocking boat fighting the elements. Yet, this man is sitting here doing nothing but taking his money and too much […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Friday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time
September 20, 2024, Luke 8:1-3https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092024.cfm Jesus Attracts Opposites Every parish has different levels of commitment to Jesus and the Church. There is an old understanding of the Church that worked for centuries but now needs to change. In short, some people see the clergy, religious, and some laity as gifted to “do everything.” They see […]
Fr. Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Thursday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time
September 19, 2024, Luke 7:36-50 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091924.cfm Pope Paul VI wrote about evangelization that “modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses” (Evangelii Nuntiandi 41). The witness of the sinful woman in this Gospel makes her a powerful evangelist. Her actions speak – even […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Wednesday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time
September 18, 2024, Luke 7: 31-35https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091824.cfm Dancing with Jesus. Presidential campaigns seem like they go on forever. Conservative and liberal candidates spend millions of dollars on travel and commercials. While they stayed their policies, most of what they do is bash each other these days. The scribes and Pharisees were neither conservative nor liberal. They […]
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Tuesday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time
September 17, 2024, Luke 7:11-17https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091724.cfm “I Command You; Get Up!” My heart goes out to parents who lost a child in death! It is devastating, and the sorry seems never to go away. Yet, we may know a friend who is as good as dead, perhaps from despair or loss of meaning in their lives. […]