Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Saturday, the 5th Week in Lent
April 12, 2025 – John 11:45-56 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041225.cfm Fear Is Useless I learned long ago that nothing good can come from a decision made out of fear. When the Pharisees saw that Jesus was gaining popularity, they feared that the Romans would come and destroy them. They began plotting His death. John tells us that our […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Friday, the 5th Week in Lent
April 11, 2025 – John 10:31-42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041125.cfm Getting to Know My Father It isn’t hard for me to appreciate what parents experience in the morning, noon, and night. The constant demands, the never-ending tasks, it’s one thing after another. There isn’t a moment’s rest. “Mommy,” calls one child while she is changing a diaper. I experience […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Thursday, the 5th Week in Lent
April 10, 2025, Genesis 3:17:3-9; John 8:51-59 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041025.cfm The Greatest Miracle of All. Today’s readings revealed different ways people react to God. When Abraham’s wife, Sarah, was told that her husband, an older man, would become a father, not only of one child but a host of nations, she laughed. Later, Abraham heard that God […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Wednesday, 5th Week in Lent
April 9, 2025 Daniel 3;14-20, 91-92, 95, John 8:31-42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040925.cfm Read the Directions Have you ever bought something without reading the directions? I remember doing this when I was suffering from allergies. I squirted some of the medicine in my nose, and it ran down my throat. It was not pleasant. So I read the […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Monday, the 5th Week in Lent
April 7, 2025 – John 8:1-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040725.cfm I Forgot The Darkness. Our school put on the play Beauty and the Beast a few years back. After hearing confession from 6 to 7 pm, I caught the last 20 minutes of the play. When I walked into the parish center, all the lights were off. I […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for 5th Sunday in Lent C
April 6, 2025, John 8:1-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031824.cfm Drop Your Stone. Today, we honor as heroes those who, without a thought for their safety, rush to aid others, regardless of the personal cost. You may have seen in the news a recent story of a man who, without hesitation, saved a child from a burning car and […]
Father Rick’s Two Minute Homily for 4th Sunday in Lent
March 30, 2025, Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032225.cfm Home at Last. How heart-wrenching it is to stray from our Father’s loving embrace. Like the younger son in the parable, our sin- turning away from all that God provides for us begins long before we walk into the darkness of our immediate pleasures and our own will. […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Saturday, the 4th Week in Lent
April 5, 2025, John 7: 40-53 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040525.cfm We Know It All Will anything be different when we leave Mass and go back home? Will we have changed in any way, having encountered Jesus in Word and Sacrament? Everybody in today’s gospel has a different opinion of Jesus’ identity. Some thought he was a prophet. Some […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Friday, the 4th Week in Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040425.cfm The Source of Courage My Dad was a contractor who could build anything. He built churches and every kind of home. Dad had an excellent reputation because he never had a call back on his work or material. He would turn down work because people said they could get it cheaper, and his response […]
Father Rick’s One Minute Homily for Wednesday, the 4th Week in Lent
April 3, 2025, John 5:17-30 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040225.cfm Do Nothing On Your Own. Jesus said He does nothing on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. So, communion is what Jesus is all about, with the Father and us. When we feel separation from someone, Jesus feels that separation from us. So here is […]