Bulletins and Homilies

After completing college, I was studying theology in graduate school and became friends with a professor who was also my spiritual director for several years.  We often spoke about life, and prayer, and theology, and relationships, and the church—and I often came away...

It is fitting at this moment to reflect on what St. Peter said in the midst of the Transfiguration: It is good for us to be here. It is good that we have come together, at home or in person, to celebrate the Word of God and the Eucharist. In today’s Gospel, we find...

How great…is our Faith? How deep is our desire to pursue Jesus? How persistent is our Quest to obtain healing?   One of the true tests of religious devotion; are the words that come out of our mouth.   Others will know that you are a Christian, by the words you choose...

I can identify with the fear of the disciples in this gospel scene.  One summer in college I was in a very small three-person sailboat near Annapolis on a beautiful afternoon.  But at one point, dark clouds started appearing in the west, and the wind started picking...

Bring Them Here to Me! For additional Homilies, articles, and videos by Deacon Jeff, visit his website www.JoyoftheWord.org.     For what do you hunger and thirst? Dinner out with friends in a crowded restaurant? A House full of laughing teens? To leave your...

Written Homily not available. This weekend we welcome Fr. Marty Moran to preside at all weekend Masses while I am away.  Fr. Moran is a priest of the diocese of Harrisburg PA, and is currently the University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry at Mount Saint...