Bulletins and Homilies

Beginning in mid-March, restrictions were placed on our lives in order to save as many lives as possible.  These restrictions propelled us into a life we hadn’t experienced before.  These past weeks have been a long stretch, a kind of prolonged Lenten fast that no one...

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity For this Homily and additional articles, videos, and information, please visit Deacon Jeff Sutterman’s website: www.JoyoftheWord.org. I.  I am left speechless and dizzy by this unprecedented week, yet we all must speak Undeniable...

When the evangelist Luke describes the first Pentecost, he tells us that, after experiencing the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the first followers of Jesus came out into public and began speaking-- and everyone, no matter their ethnicity or language, heard the...

I don’t know about you, but one sentence in this gospel reading always gets my attention as somehow not quite right.  “When they saw him, they worshipped, but they doubted” (Matthew 28:17).  “They” refers to the apostles, the ones who had been hanging around Jesus for...

Jesus calls us to obey his commandments–– which means…to love one another–– so that God will be made visible through our lives.   If you were given the task to make something INvisible – VISABLE? How would you accomplish this task? This is what is being asked of us...

The gospel reading we just heard began with Jesus saying to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.”  And my immediate response is, “Yeah, Lord, that’s easy for YOU to say!”  Because most of us do have hearts… and most of us do keep up with the world news…...