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Readings for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071722.cfm Lk 10:38-42 "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." “Anxiety is a poison for your soul.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “You and I live in a world that is anxious, and it speaks to us all the time."—Fr. Brian Larkin Greek Word: merimnaō = anxiety Luke 10: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/10 Luke 12: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/12 Greek Word for “Troubled”: therompátsoma “Martha has allowed her soul to be in a state of uproar.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “Do not be anxious about your life.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “Jesus, I’m scared about the future. I’m scared about the state of the Church. Jesus, there is a storm of anxiety in my soul. But, brothers and sisters, do you know what Jesus does with a storm? He silences the storm.”—Fr. Brian Larkin Psalm 65: 7 “God you still the roaring of the seas, the roari

Deuteronomy 30: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/30 The Gospel says: “You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength…You will love your neighbor as yourself.” How do you get people to love you? Luke 10: The Parable of the Good Samaritan is actually a parable about Christ: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/10 “Who is my neighbor?” Revelation 11: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/revelation/11 “Jericho is a city that represents humanity—it’s low, it’s earthly.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “In the story of Joshua in Jericho, when the city falls, they march around it for seven days, and they blow a trumpet seven times on the seventh day, and the walls of the city fall. In Revelation chapter 11, we’re told the City of Man (the earthly city) at the end of time, there will be seven trumpet blasts, and the city of man falls, and the city of God triumphs. Jericho in Scripture is an image of humanity that needs God.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “A man was on his way from Jerusalem to Jer

“Why does this [relics] matter? Why is it important? How does God want to speak to us through one of his saints?” St. Ignatius of Antioch—one of the first martyrs, eaten by lions in the Colosseum in Rome. https://catholicexchange.com/st-ignatius-of-antioch/ “We having taken up his bones, which were more costly than precious stones, and refined more than gold deposited them where it was fitting. And in that place when we meet together as we can, the Lord will grant us to celebrate with joy and gladness the birthday of his martyrdom.”—St. John Henry Cardinal Newmanhttps://www.newmanreader.org/works/development/chapter10.html A.D. 155, St. Polycarp was burned at the stake: https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=107 A 4th Century Writer wrote: “Corpses were an abomination in Judaism. But when death is for Christ, the relics of saints are precious. It was anciently said to the priests and Nazarites, if anyone shall touch a corpse, he shall be unclean until evening, and he shall wash his garments. Now, o

Readings for Corpus Christi Sunday https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061922.cfm Dads: What Is Your Word? | Fr. Brian's Homily | Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | 06.19.2022 "Today, the Eucharist calls us as men to something incredibly profound."—Fr. Brian Larkin "In the history of religions and philosophy, the general movement of religious people and deep thinkers is to move away from the flesh."—Fr. Brian Larkin "According to Plato, the body was a prison for the soul, so death was never a sad thing."—Fr. Brian Larkin "Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night."—Plato https://www.azquotes.com/quote/671403 "For spiritual people, death is also freedom, because it allows us to ascend to the heavenly realms."—Fr. Brian Larkin "Today’s culture is hedonistic. Our culture re

Readings for Trinity Sunday https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061222.cfm Idols & Immorality | Fr. Brian's Homily | Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity | 06.12.2022 The Reason You Were Created Balthasar: Trinity Image https://zoboko.com/text/lmm3j22r/the-holy-trinity-hans-urs-von-balthasar-and-his-sources/5 A Ray of Light/Prism=all the feasts of the year The Ray of Light equates to every mystery of our faith. Romans 1: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/romans/1 Idolatry: The greatest sin of humanity Paul’s Critique of the world is this: The central problem with the world is idols. “Immoral behavior is the twin sister of idolatry. The one that is always born first is idolatry. The ray of God’s trinity heals us of that sin.” Your central problem with God is not a sin of weakness. It’s not a sin where you’re prideful or love money too much. The root of our sin is that we worship false gods. Matthew 22: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/22 “To be a Christian means to love God with all your heart, soul,

Fr. Sean’s Pentecost Homily Peace from 2 aspects: 1. With Jesus in the readings, today 2. Pentecost & the coming of the Holy Spirit “The Lord desires to give us peace, today.” Peace: The absence of division “I think we all know when we have that peace within us.” —Fr. Sean Conroy “We all desire peace in our lives.”—Fr. Sean Conroy Peace at The Last Supper: Matthew 26:17–29 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26 Mark 14:12–25 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/14Luke 22:7–38 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/22I Corinthians 11:23–25 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/11 “Jesus knows his men will betray him, yet what does he tell his apostles at the Last Supper? ‘Peace I leave you, my peace I give to you.’ Despite knowing the betrayal and the fractures that would happen in the Church. Then, the Apostles go and abandon him when He needs them the most.” —Fr. Sean Conroy “The first words Jesus speaks after the Resurrection were, ‘Shalom’—‘Peace be with you.’ In the city of peace, Jesus speaks p

You Cannot Serve Two Masters | Fr. Sean's Homily | 6th Sunday of Easter | May 22, 2022 by Lourdes Denver

Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/051522.cfm “Heaven is real; it’s my inheritance, and because it’s real, I can walk through this world in a different way than I would have otherwise.” —Fr. Brian Larkin “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.”—Old Axiom “The greatest desires of you heart are far more than you could ever hope for. God has something like that for you.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “Satan cannot offer you anything real. The only thing Satan can do is to take something God gives us, and make a parody of it.”—Fr. Brian Larkin “It’s tempting to settle for the parody—to settle for something much less in this world.”—Fr. Brian Larkin Acts 14: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/14?21 St. Paul is on his first missionary journey with Barnabus “If you’re gonna be Christian, you’ve got to be strong. And part of my job and our job for each other is to strengthen each other to renew our hope in heaven.”—Fr. Brian Larkin Acts 14: 22 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/14 “Through many

Interpreting the Cross | Fr. Brian’s Homily for Mother’s Day | 5.8.2022 5/8/2022 Mothers “Good Shepherd: Are you calling me to give my life for you?”
 John 10: Good Shepherd Sunday usually dedicated to vocations “I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.” Romans 8: “I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.” Fr. Gawronski: Mandarin: The word for “goodness” is based off an image of a woman holding a child “What’s better in society than a woman holding her son or daughter? That’s what goodness is.” “Thank God today for mothers and for the feminine heart, which brings receptivity into this world. Mothers, you have a heart that we men don’t have. It’s different. You bring something to all of us that we so desperately need. And our society today doesn’t like

The Discomfort of Failure | Fr. Sean's Homily | 3rd Sunday of Easter | 05.1.2022 Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050122.cfm “Failure is Not Final.”—Fr. Sean Conroy “Jesus, I go to confession over and over again for the same sins. I’m still struggling with gossip. Or Internet use. Or pride and vanity. And I come to confess them, but I feel like a failure. I hope this doesn’t cripple you to the point that you no longer pursue the Lord. Because, your failure is not final.”—Fr. Sean Conroy “How could it be that He [the Messiah] falls? How could it be that he seems like a total failure, and then he dies?” “The good news is that that failure was not final.” —Fr. Sean Conroy “Through Jesus’s resurrection, he shows us that death—failure—is not final.” —Fr. Sean Conroy John 21: Epilogue to the Gospel of John https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/21 Meant to be seen as parallel to Luke 5: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/5 6 When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish an

Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/reading... “Mercy creates a community.” Fr. Brian Larkin Blaise Pascal: “There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.” https://kidadl.com/quotes/blaise-pasc... “I want to invite you into being that saint. I want to invite you into that freedom of knowing that you are a sinner who is loved.” —Fr. Brian Larkin John 20: 19: “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/20 2 reasons you lock the door on your life: 1. "Because you have a sin in your life that you have to hide from everybody. Maybe you feel you even need to hide it from God. It isolates us, and keeps us from actually loving each other."—Fr. Brian Larkin 2. "Maybe some of you don’t know that you’re sinners."—Fr. Brian Larkin “But Jesus bre

Readings from Holy Thursday, the Mass of the Lord's Supper: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041422-supper.cfm

Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041722.cfm Washing of Feet: John 13: 1–17 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/13 Origen says Christ washes his disciples’ feet to make them beautiful. He also says the Apostles are going to be the first witnesses of the Gospel. So, in accordance with the prophecy (below), Jesus washes the feet at the Last Supper. Isaiah 52:7: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!” https://bible.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/52 “Beauty evokes desire.”—Fr. Brian Balthazar (paraphrased): “If we don’t have beauty in our faith, we might know it’s true, but it doesn’t move our hearts, it doesn’t transform us.”
http://ccalouisville.org/blog/seeing-the-form-of-glory-von-balthasars-theology-of-beauty Luke 24:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/24 
Greek word: Léros = nonsense https://biblehub.com/greek/3026.htm The Easter Vigil: https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year-and-calendar/triduum/roman-missal-and-the-easter-vigil The Easter Candle

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done April 10, 2022 Fr. Brian Larkin 
This week’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041022.cfm 
The Lord’s Prayer: https://www.usccb.org/prayers/our-father “You and I are not like other people; we are bought by the blood of Christ.” —Fr. Brian Larkin Holy Land: Topography & landscape St. Jerome calls the Holy Land the “5th Gospel.” “I thought that going to the Holy Land would limit my imagination… but was wrong. When you go to the Holy Land, it’s as if your faith is brand new.” —Fr. Brian Larkin House of Caiaphas: https://www.holylandsite.com/house-of-caiaphas Mount Calvary: https://holy-land-tours.com/gordons-calvary-the-garden-tomb/ Steps of Jesus https://abcnews.go.com/International/holy-stairs-believed-climbed-jesus-prior-crucifixion-unveiled/story?id=62331625 Jesus spends most of his life up in Galilee, then moves to the Jordan River, then moves to the Dead Sea, which is the lowest place that’s above water, on ea

5th Sunday of Lent | Identity, Shame, & The Healing Power of Confession | Fr. Sean Conroy by Lourdes Denver

The Prodigal Son: Jn 9:1-41 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/reading... Homily 1: Basic Message of Reconciliation “The Good News that you have a place at the Father’s table. If you don’t know that, this is the good news of Christianity.” —Fr. Brian Larkin Origen’s 2nd commentary of Leviticus 2: “Even to the end of the world, the day of reconciliation is today.” https://www.google.com/books/edition/... The story of all christians is a story of slaves and sons. Today is the day of reconciliation. Today, you belong in the Father’s house.”—Fr. Brian Larkin Homily 2: “God has entrusted to us the ministry of reconciliation.” —Fr. Brian Larkin 2 Corinthians 5: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2corint... Pliny the Younger: The story of the slave who has become a freed manhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/philemon/0 Today's Sponsor: N.T. Wright: Paul (Book) https://www.audible.com/pd/Paul-Audio... Onesimus=Useful (Latin name) “I, Paul, an ambassador, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, I appeal to you for my child, One

3rd Sunday of Lent Deacon Tom: True North & Continual Metanoia Exodus 17 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/17?3 The Miracles of Water Exodus 7: 14–25: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/7 Moses’s Staff turns the river to blood Exodus 14: Crossing the Red Sea, dry shod https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/14 Miracles of food: Manna from Heaven & quail in the evening https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/16 Israelites still mistrust the Lord, and death follows in the desert. Joshua leads the Israelites to the Promise Land across the River Jordan https://bible.usccb.org/bible/joshua/0 The Woman at the Well & the Living Water: John 4: 4–42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/4 The longer Christ talks to the woman, the more her tone and attitude change—it becomes a metanoia for her to hear that Christ is the “Living Water.” “Maybe our own personal metanoia is minimal, but important if you want to ‘get where you’re going.’” —Deacon Tom Uschold Deacon Ernie McNally, of Camden, NJ Experienced a major

Homily #1: Transfiguration is at the top of the list for the richness of text. Homework for the week: Feast of Booths—A Jewish Feast https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/sukkot-feast-booths-known-some-feast-tabernacles Homily #2 Christian Hope Luke 9: Worthy of prayer https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031322.cfm “I was wrestling with loneliness and hardship, and I looked out into the ocean. I was listening to ‘Beyond the Blue,’ and he says, ‘“I'll let go of all I could not hold onto For the hope I have in you’” “…the hope beyond the blue.” “Beyond the Blue” lyrics by Josh Garrels: https://www.google.com/search?q=beyond+the+blue+josh+garrels+lyrics&sxsrf=APq-WBvslVMKwnrpzj6303rbGmOA3IAsMw%3A1647192765315&ei=vSouYv3pEuT99APisL3YAg&oq=beyond+the+blue+josh+g&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMYADIFCAAQgAQyBQguEIAEMgUIABCABDoHCAAQRxCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoHCC4QsAMQQzoPCC4Q1AIQyAMQsAMQQxgBOgwILhDIAxCwAxBDGAE6BAgAEEM6CAguEIAEENQCOgcILhDUAhBDOgQILhBDOgYIABAWEB5KBAhBGABKBAhGGAFQ5QVYmRVgjBxoAXABeACAAVGIAeQDkgEBN5gBAKABAcgBEsAB

Simple signs tell you what did or didn’t happen, such as when a child still has ashes on their forehead three days after Ash Wednesday. Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030622.cfm St. Luke 4:1–13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/4?1 David and Goliath: a premonition of the Tempting in the Desert: 1 Samuel 17 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1samuel/17 Into the Desert Fasting for 40 Days: “The Devil comes to you when he knows you are weak. He knows your Achille’s heel.” —Fr. Witold “Pleasures and comfort are OK in our lives, but God is always first. Then, we know the limits in our lives.” —Fr. Witold The very first temptation is: Idol of comfort & pleasure Idol of Power: (all the kingdoms) we want control Idol of Popularity/Pride: the desire for people to worship you The moment of the Great Fall of Adam was the moment the power over the world was handed from Adam and Eve to Satan. On the War in Ukraine: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/tags/1954/ukraine-war “The president of Russia

Bearing Good Fruit Parables: “Jesus Style” “The blind man cannot lead the blind man. You cannot trust the man who removes his glasses to get you safely to your destination. He or she cannot see, so they cannot find the way.” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk “Each week, Jesus brings your spiritual vision to 20/20 again for the next six days. Not the priests, but Jesus Christ.” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk “I wouldn’t depend on your own eye. You cannot correct someone if you have problems. If you have problems, you cannot advise. Fix yourself first, so you can help others along the way.” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk “Fruits: if you see an apple, it means that it comes from a tree. It doesn’t just appear. If you are a Catholic, and you want to bear good fruit, you have to be connected to the tree. You cannot sufficiently fulfill your vocation, the way God wants, if you are not connected to God through his ‘tree.’” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk War in Ukraine is official, because of the deeds of one person. We can speak to the world t