Sermons on Feasts & Solemnities

God Works Through Us

The Feast of Corpus Christi We don’t put any limits on what God can do in us, or in our parish, because He is here. He comes to dwell on our altar, in our tabernacle, and even in us. And because of that, because He is at work IN us, He can even work THROUGH us. Like Paul with the Corinthian community,…

Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear

The Feast of Pentecost It’s ok if you are experiencing fear. Major or minor. Whether the kind of paralyzing fear that the disciples were experiencing huddled in a room, or the kind of fear that kind of barely registers, but still keeps us from doing what we know God wants from us. It’s ok to experience fear. To feel fear. It’s part…

Good Shepherd Sunday

Our mothers are examples of good shepherds in our lives. They cared for us and fed us and loved us with the great commandment that God gave us to love others as God has loved you. But we have two mothers. Let us entrust our mothers to our heavenly mother Mary, who Jesus gave to us as his last act before he…

Epiphany

Do we feel the joy and peace of the magi who searched for the son of God so many years ago? I believe you can. Why? Because their route is our route too! In our hearts we follow a star, the sign of salvation and life. We, too, hunger for what they hunger for: peace…

Mary, Mother of God

Mary Our Heavenly Mother There is so much we can learn from our Blessed Mother Mary. Mary, our mother, is our model and teacher in the ways of being children of God. She teaches us and guides us through her words and example. She teaches us to love God above all things and how to say yes to the Father’s will; how…

Christmas

God loved the world so much that he sent his only son. Do we know the love of God? Have we experienced the love of God? In the Christmas story, Jesus wants to come into our lives. All we need to do is invite him to live with us, walk with us and fill us with his love. Come Lord Jesus come.