Podcasts by Fr. Joe Dailey

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 8 C from 2022-02-26T07:00

"It is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.”

This is a homily/story that I shared in 2019.
Here is the video version
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Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter B from 2021-04-24T09:00

To be in relationship with the Good Shepherd Is also to be in relationship with each other. In the English language, there is no separate singular form of the word sheep. We are saved a...

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter B from 2021-04-17T08:00

The evangelist means to tell the readers that resurrection from the dead is more than a mere spiritual event. The whole person is redeemed, not only his or her spirit.  What is saved is not a bl...

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter B from 2021-04-10T08:00

The disciples are about to be sent out; the Risen Christ is sending them as instruments of God’s creative act, to bring God’s Shalom and healing into the world.

Homily for Easter Sunday Mark 16:1-8 from 2021-04-03T08:00

Mark has hidden the resurrection in the very first chapter of the Gospel. That is why there is no resurrection at the end; the whole Gospel is filled with the presence of the risen Lord.

Ubi Caritas, Taizé from 2021-04-01T10:00

Holy Thursday from 2021-04-01T10:00

In washing their feet, Jesus is challenging his disciples to do the same for each other; to see that all are equal friends. In the Kingdom, nobody is above or below in any way. 

The Passion of St. Mark, part 3 from 2021-03-27T14:00

conclusion of the Passion, chapter 15. Song: Crucem Tuam, Taizé

The Passion of St. Mark, part 2 from 2021-03-27T09:00

conclusion of chapter 14. Song: If I have been the source of pain. C. Maud Battersby

The Passion of St. Mark, part 1 from 2021-03-27T09:00

The Passion of St. Mark, chapter 14. Song: Stay Here and Keep Watch, Taizé.

Were You There from 2021-03-27T09:00

Were you there sung by Joe Dailey, Mari Reyes, Don Martus. 

Homily for Palm/Passion Sunday B from 2021-03-27T09:00

Jesus had been speaking of his impending death since the middle of the Gospel, but the Twelve struggled to conceive of a kingdom that would begin not with the death of their enemies, but with th...

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent B from 2021-03-20T09:00

We see Jesus when we willing to follow him, giving our lives away in love.

IRISH BLESSING from 2021-03-13T08:00

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent B from 2021-03-13T07:00

Nicodemus, a teacher of Israel, comes to Jesus, the light of the world, at night.

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, B from 2021-03-06T09:00

In offering his whole self to us - Body and blood - Jesus is renewing the Sinai covenant. We are being turned into the new temple that is able to participate in the life of God, who is coming ou...

Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent B from 2021-02-27T09:00

On the mountain, we realize that humanity and divinity are really two sides of the same coin. Humanity is meant to become by grace, what divinity is by nature. We, too, are meant to shine with t...

Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent B from 2021-02-20T08:00

Just as it was for Jesus in the wilderness - the angels waited on him, and he was with the wild beasts - so is true for us: both Heaven and Earth are within us.

Homily for Ash Wednesday 2021 from 2021-02-16T06:00

Every year God says to us: “Lech lecha,” luring us into the Lenten wilderness beyond the confining boundaries of culture, kin and your parent’s house, so that we might once again discover our he...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 6 B from 2021-02-13T08:00

Living inside a community of love is always costly. “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” St. Paul encourages us, and then  goes on to show us what that looks like: “not seeking my own benefi...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 5 B from 2021-02-06T08:00

By reading Job next to Mark, we begin to grasp the extent of the salvation that is happening here. The world is, in fact, alienated from itself and without hope. But with Jesus, the state of thi...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 4 B from 2021-01-30T08:00

At the end of today’s Gospel, Mark returns us to the theme of authority and teaching.
Now we know that he is writing about the kind of teaching which liberates, which discerns the demonic po...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 3 B from 2021-01-23T08:00

Notice that what Jesus is doing is itself a sign that the kingdom of God is breaking in. Someone – John the Baptist – has been lost. In gathering a new people, Jesus is ushering in God’s kingdom...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 2 B from 2021-01-16T09:00

We are coming face to face with some very disturbing images of ourselves. But Jesus turns towards us, looks into us, and asks: “What are you looking for?” Jesus comes to show us the way out.

Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family B from 2020-12-26T09:00

If we have lived long at all, we know that no one can love us like family, and no one can hurt us like family. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

Homily for Christmas 2020 from 2020-12-24T08:00

God appears in, with, under, and as flesh, with a human body, a body made from the same stardust that makes up all other bodies. 

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, B from 2020-12-19T09:00

We too are asked to make a dwelling place for God; to put skin on God, making Christ present and living among us.

The Rabbi's Gift from 2020-12-12T10:00

I  learned this story from John Shea, who received it as a gift from an Hasidic Storyteller Reuven Gold. It is sometimes attributed to "unknown origin." This is M. Scott Peck’s version...

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, B from 2020-12-12T09:00

“It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried ...

Homily for the 2nd Sunday Advent B from 2020-12-05T08:00

Mark's Gospel is just the beginning. After we have heard it, the Gospel continues in us. We won’t need pen and ink; we write the Gospel with our lives. In welcoming Christ among us, every h...

Yet, Oh Lord (Isaiah 64) from 2020-11-28T09:00

Words and Music by Joe Dailey, ©copyright 1988

Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, B. from 2020-11-28T09:00

Advent means to come. We imagine that we are waiting for the coming of God into the world; but it is God who is waiting for us to incarnate divine love.

Homily For the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe from 2020-11-21T10:00

Matthew 25 should not be read as a parable about the sorting of individuals in the afterlife according to principles of personal charity, but as a prophecy of how nations are measured in history...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 33 A from 2020-11-14T09:00

The problem with the timid servant who buried his talent is not that he was an ineffective venture capitalist, but that he fundamentally misunderstood the nature of what he had been given. The d...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 32 A from 2020-11-07T08:00

The wise maidens are the ones who keep their lamps trimmed and burning, ready to lift a torch for anyone: the hungry, the poor, the stranger and the outcast.

All Souls Day Reflection from 2020-11-02T20:00

Our beloved dead are connected to God, and therefore connected to everything that God loves.

HOMILY SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS from 2020-10-31T09:00

"“The only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” (Léon Bloy)

On That Day, by Joe Dailey from 2020-10-31T09:00

Hymn for the Feast of All Saints, reflection on the reading 1 John, 3:1-3

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 30 A from 2020-10-24T10:00

When the Pharisees ask their last tricky question, Jesus does indeed out-trick them. But he doesn't do it by giving the right answer; he out-tricks them by actually being the right...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 29 A from 2020-10-17T09:00

On our best days, remembering that we are made In the image and likeness of God, we will make God present in our living and loving. On that day, the world will have a glimpse of what God looks l...

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 28 A from 2020-10-10T09:00

In his new encyclical, Pope Francis points to the worldwide tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic that momentarily revived the sense that we are a global community, all in the same boat, where one pe...

Autumn Thanksgiving from 2020-10-03T10:00

"For Autumn and the leaves of death, we give you thanks O Lord."

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 A from 2020-10-03T10:00

Jesus authority and power is shown quite clearly: Jesus is the one who gives life instead of taking it.

Homily for Sunday Ordinary 26 A from 2020-09-26T08:00

"We wanted our Bible to reflect life. In life you are not given the chance to erase your mistakes. Your only choice is to admit the mistake and then move on. In our Bible we wanted to show ...

Homily Ordinary 25 A from 2020-09-19T09:00

The grumbling of the workers from the first hour reflects the grumbling of Jesus’ contemporaries who were outraged at the new thing he was beginning with his disciples: a common life that grew o...

Homily Sunday Ordinary 24 A from 2020-09-12T09:00

Clinging to vengeance tortures us with our vengeance for as long as we are imprisoned by it. 

Homily for Ordinary 23 A from 2020-09-05T09:00

When we forgive, we do not forget. Rather, we remember in a different way. 

Homily for Ordinary 22 A from 2020-08-29T07:00

The cross is not just a singular event. It’s a statement from God that reality has a cruciform pattern.

Homily for Ordinary 21 A from 2020-08-22T08:00

Jesus also calls Simon the son of Jonah. Jonah was the one who went the other way when God sent him to preach to the Ninevites, who are gentiles. Peter, like Jonah, will resist this mission to t...

Homily for Ordinary 20 A from 2020-08-15T10:00

By the end of Matthew’s Gospel, the mission has changed: “Go, Make disciples of all nations." When Matthew is writing the Gospel, the Church has a mission to the Gentiles. Could it be that ...

Song for Elijah: Speak to Your People, O Lord. from 2020-08-08T12:00

From the FRIENDS Reunion concert at Christ the Redeemer, 2006.

Words and music by Joe Dailey, copyright © 1975 Alba House Media, Canfield OH. Used with permission.

Homily Ordinary 19 A from 2020-08-08T09:00

Perhaps it is the time for the church to learn to apply the lesson of the deep communion we share with God and one another.

Homily for Ordinary 18 A from 2020-08-01T08:00

"When Jesus heard that Herod had beheaded John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself." (Mt. 14:13) Let’s stop to consider what Jesus is doing; the entire pa...

Homily for Ordinary 17 A from 2020-07-25T10:00

Mary Magdalene wants to hold on to what she thinks she has lost; only in letting go, will she be able to receive the hidden treasure that God has prepared for us.
"Mary Magdelen" b...

Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time A from 2020-07-18T12:00

We have three more images today and I would like to suggest three words: Faith, hope and Love. 

Fr. Joe's Final Homily CTR from 2020-06-29T18:00

Whoever welcomes you, welcomes me.

Homily for 12th Sunday Ordinary A from 2020-06-20T11:00

God's eye is on the sparrow.

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ from 2020-06-13T14:00

"Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." (1 Cor. 10:17)

Homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity from 2020-06-06T13:00

During his “long and lonely” years in prison, Nelson Mandela’s passion 
for the liberation of his people expanded, becoming “a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.”  He cam...

Pentecost 2020 from 2020-05-30T13:00

Pentecost is not so much about the power of God coming from outside us, but a releasing of the power that is already within us.

Homily for the Ascension of the Lord from 2020-05-23T12:00

What began in the Lord's resurrection is now ready to burst forth and flood the world through the work of the disciples.  

Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter from 2020-05-16T12:00

When Jesus tells his disciples, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you,” he is both acknowledging their impending vulnerability and reminding them that they are not alone." (R...

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter 2020 from 2020-05-09T14:00

Jesus is changing the location of his father's house from the Temple to the Temple of his body. And we too, are being built Into a spiritual house.

We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God from 2020-05-09T13:00

Pope Francis' prayer to Mary for the month of May

Homily Easter 4 A: Good Shepherd Sunday from 2020-05-02T14:00

In the very temple area filled with sheep on their way to slaughter, Joshua / Jesus declares there is a way out: “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.  (John 10:10)

Homily Easter 2, April 19, 2020 from 2020-04-18T17:00

It’s the evening of that same first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked. (John 20:19) Once again, we find ourselves entering into the world of the...

Easter Sunday Homily on John 20: While it was still dark from 2020-04-11T17:00

On Holy Saturday, the Church gathers in the dark, to sing: 

“O night of endless wonder, night of bliss, when every living creature held its breath as Christ robbed death and harrowed hopel...

Good Friday reflection at the foot of the Cross from 2020-04-10T11:00

John 19:25 "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother."
On Good Friday we find Our Lady weeping at the cross, amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Le...

Holy Thursday Taizé Prayer from 2020-04-09T10:00

Stay With Me © 1984 Les Presses de Taizé GIA Publications, Inc., agent. 
En Tus Manos © 2007, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé GIA Publications, Inc., agent. 

Reading from Luke, chapter 22...

Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, October 2019 from 2020-04-05T10:00

On our last pilgrimage to the Holy Land, we had Mass inside the Edicule, which is a small shrine or chapel inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
On the Holy Saturday Orthodox celebration...

Palm Sunday Homily from 2020-04-04T19:00

On the cross, we find Jesus at prayer.

John 11, Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent from 2020-03-28T17:00

Jesus is experiencing something like a Gethsemane; for he knows that calling Lazarus out of the tomb means that he must enter it.

Prayer for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. from 2020-03-25T13:00

When we let the word find a home in our hearts, God’s faithful covenant takes flesh.

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent A from 2020-03-21T22:00

"Faith in God does not bring you safety. Danger still exists. And by that I mean, danger is not optional, but fear is." Nadia Bolz-Weber

Homily for the Solemnity of St. Joseph, March 19, 2020 from 2020-03-19T07:00

This podcast is the homily from the Mass for the Solemnity of St. Joseph. You can find the video link for the Mass at ctredeemer.org.

Taizé Prayer from 2020-03-17T09:00

Tuesday 3rd Week of Lent
Opening Hymn: God is Forgiveness
Evening Psalm: In te confide (psalm 25)
Song of Light: De noche iremos
Gospel: Matt18:21-35