Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace…

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Isaiah 55:10-11 / Romans 8:18-23 / Matthew 13:1-9 I will be delivering the following homily at all Masses today at St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis: Today’s second reading addresses suffering. When we enter a period of suffering, it would be wise to ask ourselves these two questions: First,…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “Everyone who acknowledges me before others, I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.”(Matthew 10:24-33) ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS: We often hear the…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.” (Matthew 10:7-15) WITHOUT COST: I once heard someone say, “Everything…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned,…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.” Jesus rose and followed him, and…

I am not preaching today but if interested, the following is a homily I delivered on these same readings BACK IN 2014: Did God set us up to fail? I certainly don’t want to second-guess God, but at times what He asks of us, and the position He puts us in, do not seem to…

Father of all nations and ages,We recall the day when our country claimed its place among the family of nations;for what has been achieved we give you thanks, for the work that still remains we ask your help, and as you have called us from many peoples to be one nation, grant that, under your…