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2nd Sunday of Lent (A); March 1, 2026 Gen 12:1-4a. Ps 33. 2 Tim 1:8b-10. Mt 17:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden Our magnificent first reading is a short passage from the beginning of the 12th chapter of the book of…
Category: Homilies
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Resist No One
Farewell Mass St. Francis H.S.; May 14, 2018 Deacon Jim McFadden Well, here we are again wrapping up another fruitful, intense, and challenging school year. As people of faith, we know it is not all our doing. As the Psalmist reminds us that If the Lord does not build the house, in…
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“He Was Lifted Up”
Ascension of the Lord (B); May 12, 2018 Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Mk 16:15-20 Deacon Jim McFadden “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and to all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the Earth” (Acts…
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Being Chosen
6th Sunday of Easter (B); May 6, 2018 Acts 10 Ps 98 1 Jn 4:7-10 Jn 15:9-17 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison; SJB Today’s Gospel—John Chapter 15—brings us back to the Last Supper, which contains Jesus’ final, lengthy discourses, which give us a richly textured, sustained account of Christian spirituality. There is a…
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Being Intimately United to Jesus
Fifth Sunday of Easter (B); April 29, 2018 Acts 9-26:41 Ps 22 1 Jn 3:18-24 Jn 15:1-8 Deacon Jim McFadden Today’s Gospel shows us Jesus during the Last Supper, in the moment He knows that his death is close at hand. His ‘hour’ has come and this will be the last…
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“I Lay It Down on My Own”
4th Sunday of Easter (B); April 22, 1018 Acts 4:8-12 Ps 118 1 Jn 3:1-2 Jn 10:11-18 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison, SJB Two lovers look at one another and say without any reservation: “I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I…
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Witness
3rd Sunday of Easter (B); April 15, 2018 Acts 3:13-15,17-19 Ps 42 1 Jn 2:1-5 Lk 24:35-48 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. In the mid-‘80s the Australian director Peter Weir (Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show) did his first American film, a successful thriller Witness (1985), which starred Harrison…
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The Risen Christ is Still Wounded
2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)/B; 4-8-18 Acts 4:32-35 Ps 118 1 Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison; SJB The seven weeks between Easter Sunday and Pentecost constitutes the Easter season. While lest well known than Advent or Lent—people will give you strange looks when you…
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The Empty Tomb
The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Sunday, 2018 Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 118; Col. 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden Today we are celebrating the apex of the liturgical calendar: The Resurrection of the Lord is the be-all and end-all of our Christian faith. It really comes down to this: if Jesus was not raised…
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The Messiah Has Finally Come
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (B) Mark 11:1-10 (procession) Is 50:4-7 Ps 22 Phil 2:6-11 Mk 14:1-15:47 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison, SJB Palm Sunday is the great doorway leading into Holy Week—the week in which the Lord Jesus makes his way to the culmination of his earthly existence. He goes…
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Don’t Be Afraid to Build a Better Tomorrow
4th Sunday of Lent (B); March 11, 2018 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 Deacon Jim McFadden “God so loved the world that he gave us his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). These words should fill us with joy…
homilies
Don’t Talk to the Divider!
1st Sunday of Lent (A); February 22, 2026 Gn 2:7-9, 3:1-7. Ps 51. Rom 5:12-19. Mt 4:1-11 Deacon Jim McFadden Each year, the Gospel of the 1st Sunday of Lent presents us with the narrative of Jesus in the…
Ash Wednesday: A Time for pruning
Jl 2:12-18. Ps 51. 2 Cor 5:20-6:2. Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Deacon Jim McFadden People of God, we come once again, to that great season of Lent, which is a great opportunity to prune away falseness, superficiality, and indifference to…
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