Podcasts by UMD Newman Catholic Campus Ministry

02/13/22 Nothing to Fear: The Future from 2022-02-14T19:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We are called to do today what prepares us for the challenge of tomorrow.

We have become more comfortable with the "comp...

02/06/22 Nothing to Fear: Inadequacy from 2022-02-07T15:15

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The fear of being inadequate is the fear that I won't be able to rise to the challenge.

Fear is a gift. It is meant to...

01/30/22 Nothing to Fear: Rejection from 2022-01-31T10:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Do not sacrifice your identity and integrity on the altar of approval.

We all need acceptance. It is a basic human requ...

01/23/22 Know Why from 2022-01-24T15:00

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Imagine living your entire life and not knowing why.

The return of the exiled Jews from Babylon was a great gift. But it...

01/16/22 Jesus Changes Things from 2022-01-17T17:00

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus changes shame into joy.

There are certain things, certain failures, embarrassments, and shames, that could define...

01/09/22 Children of the Father from 2022-01-09T14:00

Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.

Jesus changed the water. Now the water changes you.

Why was Jesus baptized? Not because He needed it, but because we need it. We n...

01/02/22 It's Not About You from 2022-01-02T08:00

Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.

Worship can help us escape the trap that life is about us.

When life is about us, it is not food for the human heart. When we rea...

12/26/21 Be Careful from 2021-12-26T15:15

Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Family is the School of Love.

Everyone is part of a family in some way. Be careful with each other....

12/25/21 Look Up from 2021-12-25T14:00

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Mass).

God is with you on the bathroom floor.

We are so distracted by so many things that we need to look up. But somet...

12/19/21 Abounding Love: Love Commits from 2021-12-20T18:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Love without a commitment remains an illusion.

In order to truly grow in love, there needs to be the willingness to make a com...

12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted from 2021-12-13T15:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.

Be Where Your Feet Are.

Too often, what keeps our heart small is the fact that we do the minimum minimally. What we are called ...

12/08/21 Immaculate Conception from 2021-12-08T22:00

Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

God gives exactly what is needed for whatever He has called us to.

The solemnity of ...

12/05/21 Abounding Love: What is Worth Your Heart? from 2021-12-06T21:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

Abounding love is focused love.

Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don't pay at...

11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room from 2021-11-29T21:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him.

Too often, we want to ...

11/21/21 All Over the Place from 2021-11-22T12:00

Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

When torn asunder, we are held together by worship of the King of Kings.

The end of the year ...

11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back. from 2021-11-15T18:00

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.

When we are in the middle of a journey...or...

11/07/21 Learning to Lose: Practice Dying from 2021-11-08T15:00

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Death is unavoidable.

We will all lose everything. We will all lose everything...even to the point of our very l...

11/01/21 Your Feast Day from 2021-11-01T18:00

Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.

10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost from 2021-11-01T17:00

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

When all is lost, love God with all that's left.

We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love ...

10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up from 2021-10-25T15:00

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Life is about losing. It is not about quitting.

It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin...

10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness? from 2021-10-18T14:00

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out.

The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is t...

10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You from 2021-10-11T15:00

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you.

Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we pre...

10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise from 2021-10-04T16:00

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"Because I said I would."

We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we a...

09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless from 2021-09-27T17:00

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What if the biggest obstacle to being the person you were created to be is the person you are currently choosing to be?<...

09/19/21 Desperate from 2021-09-20T19:00

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Edit, Convince, and Worry. Or Honesty, Trust, and Thanking God ahead of time.

The mass of men live lives of quiet...

09/12/21 Not Mine from 2021-09-13T16:00

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Faith must be lived, not merely believed.

It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and f...

09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved. from 2021-09-06T14:00

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Transition always involves destruction.

Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He was destroyi...

08/29/21 Living in Later? from 2021-08-30T17:00

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Am I doing “everything but”?

Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that a...

08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me from 2021-08-23T15:00

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Everything I like and nothing that I don't.

The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in ...

08/15/21 The Body from 2021-08-16T16:55

Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. You are your body. The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reun...

08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body from 2021-08-16T15:00

Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

You are your body.

The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is ...

08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go from 2021-08-09T15:00

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The best of your life is ahead of you...you will need food for the journey.

The worst days of our life often come a...

08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God. from 2021-08-02T15:00

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Choose God over the works of God.

The signs point to Jesus and Jesus is the point of the signs. When we are challen...

07/25/21 Consumer Catholic: Everything Given. Nothing Wasted. from 2021-07-26T14:00

Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Nothing given to God is wasted.

The Apostles asked the question, "What good are these for so many?" Yet, Jesus inv...

07/18/21 The Poison of Indifference from 2021-07-19T13:00

Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Indifference does not mean you don’t care; it just means you don’t care enough to move.

There are many opportunities...

07/11/21 Chosen and Consecrated from 2021-07-12T11:00

Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You are wanted and set apart.

You are special. We’ve heard that for so much of our lives that we’ve either grown num...

07/04/21 "Ruined" from 2021-07-05T18:00

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The beauty is in the broken.

Too often, when we encounter our own brokenness and woundedness, we either pretend it ...

06/27/21 Plan B from 2021-06-28T14:00

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Love requires risk. Risk requires courage.

Many of us make plans. And many of those plans don’t end up working out ...

06/27/21 Everyday Courage: Plan B from 2021-06-28T14:00

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Love requires risk. Risk requires courage.

Many of us make plans. And many of those plans don’t end up working out ...

06/20/21 Everyday Courage: Into the Storm from 2021-06-21T17:00

Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God is in the storm.

There are times when we do everything God has asked us to do…and we still find ourselves in the m...

06/13/21 Everyday Courage from 2021-06-14T12:00

Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Everyday courage simply does what is necessary.

Courage is not merely needed for the big moments of life, but is requ...

06/06/21 The Crisis of Love from 2021-06-07T12:00

Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

Do we lack faith? Or do we lack love?

Most people who call themselves Catholic do not believe one ...

05/30/21 Secret Identity from 2021-05-31T21:00

Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

What is God's deepest secret? What is yours?

What we are is shaped and revealed by what we choose. Who we are is es...

05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts from 2021-05-23T12:00

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

Am I willing to use the gifts that God has already given?

At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts o...

05/16/21 You Will Be Martyrs from 2021-05-17T14:00

Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord.

Nice is different than good.

Jesus doesn't call us to simply be "nice people." Jesus promises to send the Holy Spiri...

05/09/21 Spark Joy from 2021-05-10T12:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter.

Joy is rooted in confidence and comes as a consequence.

We can choose joy only insofar as we can choose the source of our joy. ...

05/02/21 Love Limits You from 2021-05-03T12:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

Practice making the promise.

We find ourselves always moving and never done. We have so many options that we experience decisio...

04/25/21 Inclusive Love/Exclusive Claim from 2021-04-26T16:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Inclusive means neither passive nor permissive.

To be included is an incredible gift. To be inclusive is powerful. It means mo...

04/18/21 To Be A Witness from 2021-04-19T11:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.

It is possible to see the miracle and to not be a witness.

It is possible to encounter God and go back to the same life. It is ...

04/11/21 Scar Stories from 2021-04-12T15:00

Homily from the Sunday of Divine Mercy.

Every scar has a story.

Virtually everyone has scars. And every scar has a story. Scars are reminders of our past...they are re...

04/04/21 Ellipsis from 2021-04-04T15:00

Homily from the Mass of the Resurrection of Our Lord.

It means that something more is coming.

Death is final. The death of Christ was thought to be final. But it wasn'...

04/02/21 Gallicantu from 2021-04-02T20:00

Homily from Good Friday of the Lord's Passion.

Peter expected to fight in the Garden, not in the courtyard.

Peter told Jesus that he would die for Him. And he meant it...

04/01/21 Context Matters from 2021-04-02T02:00

Homily from the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.

On the night He was betrayed…He gave.

Everything in the Bible leads to the moment of the Last Supper…and leads to ev...

03/28/21 The Truth and the Choice from 2021-03-29T18:00

Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.

Christianity doesn’t offer comfort. It offers something else.

In our culture today, we are able to avoid thinking of dea...

03/21/21 To The Heart: Vulnerable and Able from 2021-03-22T15:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

A heart that is too soft has to be protected. A heart that is too tough can’t be touched.

What good is it to have a heart that...

03/14/21 To The Heart: Hidden Heart from 2021-03-15T14:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

A hidden heart is a homeless heart.

The people of Israel were brought into exile. It was imposed from the outside. But after ...

03/07/21 To The Heart: My Treacherous Heart from 2021-03-08T17:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.

Is the question, “Can I trust God?” Or is the better question, “Can God trust me?"

There is something that all of us disc...

02/28/21 To The Heart: The Adventure of Obedience from 2021-03-01T18:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.

Obedience precedes understanding.

We are made for adventure. But adventure means mystery and uncertainty. Often, what holds u...

02/21/21 To The Heart: Untamed and Untamable from 2021-02-22T15:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.

God is not safe, but He is good.

Trust is a challenge for all of us. Trust in God is a battle that every person faces at some ...

02/17/21 To The Heart: Escape or Embrace from 2021-02-18T09:00

Homily from Ash Wednesday.

Return to the Lord with your whole heart.

We are often tempted to run away from God and from difficult moments in life. We might even be tem...

02/14/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Cost from 2021-02-15T09:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Every choice comes at a cost.

Looking back, there are some things we could have known. And looking back, there are s...

02/07/21 Hindsight 20/20: In Good Times and In Bad from 2021-02-08T17:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Good times don’t last…and neither do bad times.

One of the many things that life teaches us is that life is always ch...

01/31/21 Hindsight 20/20: Worthless Knowledge from 2021-02-01T21:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

I learned, but I didn’t grow.

Knowledge is powerful. Having lived through this past year, and looking back on what w...

01/24/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Whole Story from 2021-01-25T17:15

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Editing is the enemy of how we remember the story.

We look back so that we can see clearly and learn from our past. B...

01/17/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Moment Before the Moment from 2021-01-18T17:00

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We can’t predict The Moment, but we can prepare in the moment before The Moment.

While no one can predict the future...

01/10/21 You Are My Son from 2021-01-11T09:00

Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.

At the Incarnation, God joined His divinity to humanity...at the Baptism of Jesus, God identifies with our brokenness.

What differ...

12/27/20 Holy Families from 2020-12-27T16:00

Homily from the Mass of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Parents are not powerless.

It can be so easy for parents to feel powerless when it comes to passing...

12/25/20 Taken from 2020-12-25T09:00

Homily from the Mass of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).

Why is He there?

We have become more comfortable with the "completed" past than the unknown future. Rathe...

12/20/20 Silent Waiting from 2020-12-20T15:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Silence magnifies and waiting purifies.

Waiting is not meant to be wasted. The chance to wait in silence is often given by God...

12/13/20 "I Am Not" from 2020-12-14T15:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.

No one can take from you what doesn’t belong to you.

We all have the temptation to pretend to be someone or something other tha...

12/06/20 Legacy from 2020-12-07T17:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

We can’t go back to the beginning of the story, but we can start where we are and change the ending.

Saint Peter reveals that ...

11/29/20 Be Here from 2020-11-30T14:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

God will not just get us through this moment…He has brought us to this moment.

Too often, we find ourselves just wanting this m...

11/22/20 Roadmap: Expect Delays from 2020-11-23T14:00

Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King.

What you do with the delay makes all the difference.

We have a destination: to be who we are and to be that well. We ...

11/15/20 Roadmap: Checkpoints from 2020-11-16T13:00

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What have you done with what you've been given?

No one ever sets out to lose. But losing is entirely possi...

11/08/20 Roadmap: Accident or Excellent from 2020-11-10T15:00

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Excellence requires making the decision carefully, consistently, and quickly.

The one question that can eithe...

11/01/20 Roadmap: Guardrails from 2020-11-02T14:00

Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.

No one ever accidentally lived on purpose.

No two saints are the same. There is no “cookie-cutter” path to holiness. While ...

10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed from 2020-10-26T16:00

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Holiness isn’t always changing your what as much as changing your why.

Our lives have been reclaimed by Christ a...

10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint from 2020-10-19T22:00

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The roadmap begins with “Who.”

There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is ...

10/11/20 No Difference from 2020-10-12T15:00

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

There are many goods. There is only one best.

Modern indifference is the inability to take joy in in one's situa...

10/04/20 It's Not Your Vineyard from 2020-10-05T09:00

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God has made you for freedom from anxiety over the unforeseeable future, the unchangeable past, and your present respo...

09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind from 2020-09-28T12:00

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If you can choose your thoughts you can change your thoughts.

In the garden of the mind, our thoughts are cons...

09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter from 2020-09-21T12:00

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how you live.

Our lives will magnify (or highlight) somet...

09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness from 2020-09-14T16:00

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

There is no forgiveness without justice.

Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a...

09/06/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For from 2020-09-06T18:15

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

How do Christians fight?

We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who h...

08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky" from 2020-08-31T15:00

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Am I being conformed or transformed?

Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look dif...

08/23/20 Influencer from 2020-08-24T13:00

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The Church has influence even when it isn’t considered impo...

08/16/20 Great Faith from 2020-08-17T17:00

Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Faith can only become great when it is tested.

What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because...

08/09/20 Why Did You Stop? from 2020-08-09T17:00

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

It is one thing to start walking. It is another thing to keep walking.

Distraction is anything that takes our focus...

08/02/20 All We Have from 2020-08-03T17:00

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Do I have an attitude of scarcity or an attitude of abundance?

All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have...

07/05/20 Lead Yourself First from 2020-07-06T17:00

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Freedom requires virtue.

The Founding Fathers gave the world a republic that necessitated a people who were virtuou...

06/28/20 Something to Lose from 2020-06-28T18:00

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

It is a gift to have something to lose.

Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of e...

06/21/20 Fear No One from 2020-06-21T15:00

Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You matter to God and you have a job to do.

Jesus tells us to "fear no one." Not because there is no danger, but becau...

06/14/20 No Longer Optional from 2020-06-14T19:00

Homily from the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.

The Eucharist will never be optional...until the day it is no longer an option.

The moment worship becomes a...

06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness from 2020-06-07T23:00

Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

You do not have to know the details of a person’s life to know they are worth loving.

Human worth is rooted in our ...

05/31/20 Exiles: The First Gift from 2020-06-01T23:00

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

For the love of God has been poured into our hearts.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit so that we could receive the first gift of the Holy Sp...

05/24/20 Exiles: Restoration from 2020-05-25T13:00

Homily from the Ascension of the Lord.

Live the reason.

Return from exile is not about a change in location, it is about a change in vocation. It is less about geog...

05/17/20 Exiles: Why Go Back? from 2020-05-18T06:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter.

Not a habit or a have-to, but the heart is the reason.

At some point, the exile will end. You will be able to go back. But w...

05/10/20 Insecure: Uncertain Plans from 2020-05-10T22:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

Advance boldly into the shadows of uncertainty.

If we are wise, we will think about the future and plan for it. And if we ar...

05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown from 2020-05-04T06:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Knowing does not equal security.

In a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more i...

04/26/20 Insecure: Not Home from 2020-04-27T17:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.

Back to normal might not be what we think.

Our lives can be spent wishing for certain outcomes. But a security built on spec...

04/26/2020 Insecure: Not Home from 2020-04-27T15:04:54

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. Back to normal might not be what we think. Our lives can be spent wishing for certain outcomes. But a security built on specific outcomes is a conditional an...

04/19/20 Insecure: The Source of Security from 2020-04-20T01:00

Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.

In a time of incredible insecurity, we trust in incomprehensible mercy.

We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable. Listen

04/11/20 Witnesses from 2020-04-12T19:00

Homily from Holy Saturday, the Easter Vigil.

We profess the faith today so we can persevere in the faith tomorrow.

Christianity is an historical religion that is not b...

04/10/20 Prepared But Not Ready from 2020-04-10T19:00

Homily from Good Friday of the Lord's Passion.

Why are we surprised when we discover that “weakness” is actually weak?

Jesus prepared His disciples for His Passion. Bu...

04/09/20 Re-Claimed and Re-Named from 2020-04-09T22:00

Homily from Holy Thursday, the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.

God speaks your true name: "Mine."

Our name is our identity. Christ has covered our given name with H...

04/05/20 Un-Done: Unfinished from 2020-04-05T16:00

Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.

Jesus has not removed suffering from our lives, He has redeemed the suffering in our lives.

Jesus accomplished th...

03/29/20 Un-Done: Broken, Not Lost from 2020-03-29T17:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

Jesus is the God of the Broken Heart.

Suffering, sickness, and death are devastating. But nothing is worse than losing one’s h...

03/22/20 Un-Done: God Shows Up from 2020-03-22T20:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

Real suffering in this world reveals the deeper part of us that has come undone.

God made this world good, but He did not mak...

03/15/20 Un-Done: Not Fine from 2020-03-16T18:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.

You are not fine. You don't have to be.

We live in a world that has come undone with hearts and relationships that have co...

01/26/19 Underestimated: Silence is Not Absence from 2020-03-03T07:07:42

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do not underestimate what God is doing when it seems like God is doing nothing. There are seasons of silence, and hiddenness, and brokenness in all of...

03/07/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Isolated and Disoriented from 2020-03-03T05:37:58

Homily from Ash Wednesday. You are in a fight; what comes next? For many of us, our default assumption about life is: it’s fine. Even when things are obviously broken, we can pretend that they will...

11/12/17 What A Waste: Wasted or Spent from 2020-03-03T05:35:02

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Spend your time on what matters most. “Life is long if you know how to use it." And yet, most of us do not know how to use our lives…we do not...

11/05/17 What A Waste: A Life of Significance from 2020-03-03T05:34:22

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many people allow life to happen “to” them. Instead of embracing life and living a life of significance, people choose to live as if life does ...

10/29/17 Enough: Never Enough from 2020-03-03T05:33:30

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many people feel like they can never do enough. In life, in relationships, in their faith. Because of this, people try to do everything and the...

10/07/18 Rivals: All...or Nothing from 2020-03-03T05:21:24

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are some relationships that do not tolerate rivals. There are only two kinds of relationships that get to a point where it is “all…or n...

09/30/18 Greatest of All Time: To Be Great, Let Go from 2020-03-03T05:19:42

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. True greatness lies in being able to let go of whatever you don’t need. The temptation to fall back into measuring greatness according to the s...

09/23/18 Greatest of All Time: Selfless Ambition from 2020-03-03T05:18:40

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ambition involves the willingness to risk. Selfless ambition is the willingness to risk the loss of status for the good of someone else. Great ...

09/16/18 Greatest of All Time: To Be Great, Give from 2020-03-03T05:17:52

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Could you be great even if no one knew? The desire to be seen and to be known is written deep in the human heart. But is a person great simply...

09/09/18 Greatest of All Time: Identity, Not Ability from 2020-03-03T05:16:43

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. You don't have to do all the things. You just have to do the thing. We can put off doing the one thing we need to do in order to do other, less...

09/02/18 Do The Thing from 2020-03-03T05:14:25

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. You don't have to do all the things. You just have to do the thing. We can put off doing the one thing we need to do in order to do other, les...

08/26/18 Not Welcome. Invited. from 2020-03-03T05:13:28

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. God is not indifferent to you. Mass Readings from August 26, 2018: Joshua 24:1-2, 15-17, 18 Psalm 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21 Ephesians 5:21-32...

05/06/18 An Example from 2020-03-03T05:12:13

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. You do not need permission to be an example. Not all of us can have influence, but we can all be an example. Mass Readings from May 6, 2018: Acts 10:25-26, 3...

06/10/18 The Unforgivable Sin from 2020-03-03T05:11:58

Homily from the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. At the heart of the unforgivable sin are two words. The two words “I’m fine” might be a simple way of saying “no thanks.” But it is also a way of sayi...

04/29/18 What's Next: Go With from 2020-03-03T05:09:51

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Confidence is critical to moving forward. Surrender is the key to confidence. It is one thing to have confidence when a person has power and knowledge. There...

04/22/18 What's Next: When the Chips Are Down from 2020-03-03T05:09:09

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. In calling us to what’s next, God doesn’t necessarily take anything away, but He gives us something. He doesn’t necessarily take away the danger or the fear...

04/15/18 What's Next: What's Now from 2020-03-03T05:08:22

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. Looking ahead only gets you so far. Being convinced by Christ is one thing, being convicted to take action is another. The call is to be converted…to be chan...

04/08/18 What's Next: Something More Than Control from 2020-03-03T05:02:43

Homily from the Second Sunday of Easter. To move forward with joy, one needs something more powerful than control. The early Church was filled with men and women who lived in uncertainty. The curre...

03/30/18 Give and Receive from 2020-03-03T04:57:30

Homily from Good Friday of the Lord's Passion. It is better to give and receive than to take and reject. Mass Readings from March 30, 2018: Isaiah 52:13—53:12 Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25 He...

03/25/18 Sign Your Name from 2020-03-03T04:55:38

Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. Make the Passion personal. The Passion and death of Christ is so...big. Sometimes it can seem so big that it becomes impersonal. But this event was no...

03/18/18 The Root: Fruit or Root from 2020-03-03T04:54:23

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Is the change cosmetic? Or substantial? Transformation is a part of life. And Lent is all about allowing God to make us into the kind of people He has created ...

03/11/18 The Root: Radical from 2020-03-03T04:53:29

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. God responds to our radical need with His radical love. Many people find it incredibly difficult to be honest...even with themselves. But unless we get past t...

02/25/18 The Root: Transparent and Vulnerable from 2020-03-03T04:51:56

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. Can I be honest? Many people find it incredibly difficult to be honest...even with themselves. But unless we get past the surface to the root of what is truly...

02/18/18 The Root: Age of Compromise from 2020-03-03T04:51:10

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. Are these ashes no more than skin deep? We live in a unique time. It is, in many ways, an age marked by a disposition towards compromise. One where convictions...

02/14/18 The Root: The Imposter from 2020-03-03T04:50:20

Homily from Ash Wednesday. Are these ashes no more than skin deep? Many people spend their time living as an imposter in their own lives. Even Christians will often be tempted to allow the power an...

02/11/18 Discipleship 101: Free to Obey from 2020-03-03T04:49:40

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. What happens when the disciple knows better than the rabbi? A person can be touched and made new by Jesus and still not be a disciple. One common aspe...

02/04/18 Discipleship 101: Free to Keep a Promise from 2020-03-03T04:48:44

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Having a duty is a privilege. Doing your duty is a freedom. Duties and obligations are often seen as burdens. They restrict us from doing what we want...

01/28/18 Discipleship 101: Free to Be Held from 2020-03-03T04:48:06

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Following Jesus is not merely a matter of behaving or “being good". It ultimately rests on whether or not we will allow the Father to get close enoug...

01/21/18 New Not Nice from 2020-03-03T04:47:12

Homily from the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Look back. Let go. Live now. Nothing that has happened from the moment of your conception up until this moment is wasted. Jesus called those first dis...

01/14/18 Life Demands Courage from 2020-03-03T04:46:16

Homily from the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. Be steadfast in silence. Be strong in service. We can have our whole lives be about God: being in His presence, serving His people, learning His Word...

12/25/17 What Do You Want? from 2020-03-03T04:45:20

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas). Do you know what you want? Some people know exactly what they want and exactly what they need. Most of us do not, however. Because of that, until I...

12/17/17 Here. Now. from 2020-03-03T04:44:21

Homily from the Third Sunday in Advent. Have we lost the ability to enjoy things? When we live life constantly distracted and incessantly amused, we will not find ourselves in a place of endless am...

12/10/17 Be At Peace from 2020-03-03T04:43:37

Homily from the Second Sunday in Advent. Is it possible to have peace in the midst of battle? Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of something more powerful that war and trial. Peace ...

10/22/17 Enough: I Am Not Enough from 2020-03-03T04:43:02

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What is beneath a feeling of helplessness? There are times in life when a person is so overwhelmed that they feel like they cannot move. They ...

12/03/17 Remember from 2020-03-03T04:42:31

Homily from the First Sunday in Advent. At the beginning of Advent, the Church reminds us of Christ’s words: Be Alert! To be alert is to know your identity and situation…but it is also to remember ...

10/15/17 Enough from 2020-03-03T04:40:44

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You can never have enough of what you don’t need. A culture of excess is an unhappy culture. A person of excess is a person driven by fear. Bu...

11/26/17 What A Waste: The Price of Passivity from 2020-03-03T04:40:20

Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. The consequence of indifference could have eternal significance. Hell is not only real, it is a real possibility. Those who...

10/08/17 Look Like Jesus: Whatever from 2020-03-03T04:40:01

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. To look like Jesus is to see things as they are. A disciple is a person who lives like Jesus and who sees the world like Jesus. A disciple sh...

10/01/17 Look Like Jesus: Christ's Why from 2020-03-03T04:37:17

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. For the Glory of the Father. Each one of our lives is made up of any number of "what's". But a truly great life is driven by one great "why". T...

11/19/17 What A Waste: The Burden of Talent from 2020-03-03T04:36:33

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Gifts are given for a purpose. Who you are is God’s gift to you. Who you become is your gift to God. God gives each of us any number of gifts/o...

09/24/17 Look Like Jesus: Unshakeable Identity from 2020-03-03T04:35:50

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. If my relationship with the Father is actual, then my identity is unshakeable, and my activities and mission are completely changeable. What de...

09/17/17 Look Like Jesus: The Last Enemy from 2020-03-03T04:34:46

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. How does Jesus look at death? There is no need to fear death, because Jesus has conquered death. And yet, do we approach death the way Jesus a...

09/10/17 Look Like Jesus: Anonymous and Autonomous from 2020-03-03T04:32:23

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. How does Jesus look at the people around me? The way we look at the world directs the way we live in the world. Our vision of life, God, oursel...

09/03/17 The Disposition of Discipleship from 2020-03-03T04:24:36

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith is more than "agreement." Mass Readings from September 03, 2017: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27

08/27/17 Inherited or Owned? from 2020-03-03T04:23:59

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many people have been "raised Catholic, but..." They have never embraced the inheritance of the Faith they have been given. They may even ha...

03/01/20 Un-Done: We've Come Undone from 2020-03-01T10:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.

The decision that broke the world.

This world is not perfect. And we are not perfect. But imperfect does not mean unloved.

02/26/20 He Sees. He Cares. from 2020-02-27T10:00

Homily from Ash Wednesday.

Your Father sees you. Your Father hears you.

We all desire to be heard and seen...to know we matter. Jesus reveals that even your actions in...

02/23/20 Defiant Love from 2020-02-24T09:00

Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If we are going to love like Jesus, we must love differently…we must love defiantly.

The Universe is indifferent to us...

02/16/20 More Than A Criminal Heart from 2020-02-17T09:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God wants you to have a heart like His.

The Sermon on the Mount reveals the truth about our hearts: we need the Law. But...

02/09/20 Good...For Nothing? from 2020-02-10T09:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Refuse to live as salt and light, and the Father remains unknown, unloved, and unglorified.

God trusts us with being ...

02/02/20 Underestimated: Unimpressive from 2020-02-02T09:00

Homily from the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

Unimpressive does not mean unimportant.

Most of life is made up of unimpressive moments and unimpressive seas...

01/26/20 Underestimated: Silence is Not Absence from 2020-01-26T09:00

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Do not underestimate what God is doing when it seems like God is doing nothing.

There are seasons of silence, and hid...

01/19/20 Underestimated: Single Unifying Principle from 2020-01-20T09:00

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The single unifying principle unites all of the various threads of our life into one whole image.

It is “too little”...

12/25/19 One Star from 2019-12-25T09:00

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord.

God will always fulfill His promises. Is that enough?

We know that God is faithful because He has fulfilled what He has promised....

12/22/19 Available and Capable from 2019-12-22T09:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Emmanuel. God is working with us to save the world.

God does not need us. But He has demonstrated that He does not want to hea...

12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything from 2019-12-08T08:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

To be gripped by God is not supposed to be comfortable.

The Prophet says that the great gift of the Spirit is the fear of the ...

12/01/19 Before Goodbye from 2019-12-01T08:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

We do not know when, but we do know what.

Goodbyes can be painful. But what makes goodbyes even more painful is when we are not...

11/24/19 A King Who Remembers from 2019-11-24T08:00

Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

Jesus loves you and He hasn’t forgotten you.

It is easy to feel forgotten and forsaken…eve...

11/17/19 CompariSIN: Stealing Joy from 2019-11-18T08:00

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If comparison is a thief of joy, then we have to learn how to steal it back.

In the battle to escape the compa...

11/10/19 CompariSIN: Incomparable from 2019-11-10T08:00

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We will continue walking through this world in which ...

11/03/19 CompariSIN: Infinitely Preferred from 2019-11-04T08:00

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What makes them so great? What makes me so awful?

When someone else being honored or loved more than we are me...

10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison from 2019-10-27T08:00

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

In a life of comparison, every person is a potential threat.

Comparison is the desire to be “more” than another. ...

10/20/19 The Hardest Step: The Next Step from 2019-10-21T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Often, the next hardest step is the next step.

Continuing to walk in the midst of failure, rejection, and impe...

10/13/19 The Hardest Step: The First Step from 2019-10-14T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You just have to start.

The first step is the most difficult…but it is also the most important.

Listen

10/06/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lovelessness from 2019-10-07T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

How do you know God loves you? How do you know you are saved? Answer: the sacraments.

The saving work of Jes...

09/29/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lifelessness from 2019-09-29T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus took from us what was ours so He could give to us what is His.

God’s grace is the cause of our salvation...

09/22/19 Are You Saved? From What: Hopelessness from 2019-09-29T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus took from us what was ours so He could give to us what is His.

When we come face to face with our sin, w...

09/15/19 Are You Saved? From What: Fatherlessness from 2019-09-16T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus saves us from being orphaned or abandoned.

I was saved at my Baptism. I am being saved. I hope to be sa...

09/08/19 First Thing First from 2019-09-09T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Out of everything in life, Jesus has to be first.

In our lives, we continually divide ourselves and divide our he...

09/01/19 Oh, Vanity from 2019-09-01T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The high price of vanity.

It is easy to think of vanity as nothing more than being conceited or overly concerned...

08/25/19 Hope and Discipline from 2019-08-26T08:00

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Discipline is the mark of the mature Christian.

We have to do difficult things all of the time. Why do we do them...

08/11/19 Living By Faith from 2019-08-12T08:00

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

A disciple is a decision-maker.

Faith is more than belief. It “acts”. It can be seen. In fact, what we choose revea...

07/07/19 Declaration from 2019-07-08T08:00

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The ...

06/30/19 We'll See from 2019-06-30T08:00

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Transfer your primary allegiance.

When following Jesus, the first things He invites us to give up are safety and co...

06/09/19 The Peace of Christ from 2019-06-10T08:00

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

I know I have what I need.

The promised Holy Spirit gives many gifts, but few are more powerful and profound than the Spirit’s gift of pe...

05/12/19 #Fail: Failure is Feedback from 2019-05-13T08:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Failure either gives us clarity and conviction or course correction.

Failure is not final and failure is not fatal. As long...

05/05/19 #Fail: The Only Way to Fail from 2019-05-06T08:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.

The only way for failure to be final is if you stop.

Even sin is not final if you don’t stop. God has a call for you that is...

04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail from 2019-04-29T08:00

Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.

Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift.

Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst ...

04/14/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Stand from 2019-04-14T08:00

Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.

To stand for Jesus is to stand against the world.

If I live in such a way that I merely follow the crowd, I will ...

04/07/19 Behind Enemy Lines: The Father of Lies from 2019-04-07T08:15

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

There is no need to fear, but there is a need to fight.

Behind enemy lines, we find ourselves in a battle with the Enemy of G...

03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go...and Come Inside from 2019-04-01T08:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

We have different experiences, but the same enemy.

While all of us struggle with different sins and temptations, we all ultim...

03/24/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Trust God...and Fight from 2019-03-25T08:00

Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.

Trained in trust...strengthened through struggle.

God has freely given so much to us…and we are grateful. But why do we still ...

03/17/19 Behind Enemy Lines: My Own Worst Enemy from 2019-03-18T07:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.

You have to know yourself to say no to yourself.

We are in a battle, but our primary enemy is closer than we might like to im...

03/06/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Isolated and Disoriented from 2019-03-07T08:00

Homily from Ash Wednesday.

You are in a fight; what comes next?

For many of us, our default assumption about life is: it’s fine. Even when things are obviously bro...

03/03/19 Talking and Trials from 2019-03-04T07:00

Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What reveals the heart.

We often are a mystery...even to ourselves. But Christians must come to a place of self-knowled...

02/24/19 Love Yourself from 2019-02-25T07:00

Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You are loved most when you deserve it the least.

Jesus calls us to love our enemies. But how can we do that when ...

02/17/19 The Fighting Virtue from 2019-02-18T07:00

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Willing to engage and embrace the realities of life.

Hope is not a “soft” virtue. It is a fighting virtue. Hope is wh...

02/10/19 Disqualified: Unfit from 2019-02-11T07:00

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God is able to make you holy even if He never makes you whole.

There are some things in our lives (our decisions, our...

02/03/19 Disqualified: Remarkably Average from 2019-02-04T07:00

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Being unqualified does not disqualify when God calls.

There are many people who would look remarkably average on pap...

01/27/19 Disqualified: Prevented or Prepared? from 2019-01-28T07:00

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What great work may God be preparing you for right now?

In Christ, your past might not be the thing that prevent you ...

01/20/19 Insufficient and Insignificant from 2019-01-21T07:00

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God uses what we have and gives us what we need.

It is often very tempting to forget the heart of God. To forget that H...

12/25/18 But Why? from 2018-12-25T07:30

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).

The Why is a Who.

Jesus is not merely the “reason for the season”… He is the reason for everything.

Listen

12/09/18 The End? from 2018-12-10T07:00

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

This might be the end of the dream, but it is not the end of the story.

God has begun a good work in you. In fact, he has begu...

12/02/18 Be Ready, Get Ready from 2018-12-03T07:00

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

You will never be ready unless you get ready.

Advent is a season of preparation. We get ready to celebrate the first coming ...

11/25/18 Come to the Altar: Kingdom Priesthood from 2018-11-26T07:00

Homily from the Thirty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Don't waste your priesthood.

Jesus is the one eternal High Priest. He has called certain men to participa...

11/18/18 Come to the Altar: Learning to Worship from 2018-11-19T07:00

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Not merely witnessing the miracle, but offering the sacrifice.

We have to learn the worship of God in a simila...

11/11/18 Come to the Altar: Hollow Worship from 2018-11-12T07:00

Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Offering first-fruits reveals and increases the depth of trust.

The temptation to experience worship as hollo...

11/04/18 Come to the Altar: Where's Your Altar? from 2018-11-05T07:00

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Not to watch, but to worship.

The heart of religion is the worship of God. And the heart of worship is always...

10/28/18 Rivals: Rival Voices from 2018-10-28T07:00

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We do not conquer our rivals, we are called out from beneath their power.

The voices around us shape us. Some voi...

10/21/18 Rivals: The Rival of Control from 2018-10-22T01:00

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What do I have to do to get what I want?

So much of our lives can be marked by the desire to control…or the fe...

10/14/18 Rivals: The Reason is the Rival from 2018-10-15T19:00

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God has an absolute claim on your heart. What is the reason you won't give it to Him?

There is a clear di...