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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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Being Called, Being Sent
13th Sunday in O.T. (A); July 2, 2017 2 Kgs 4:8-14 Ps 89 Rom 6:3-11 Mt 10:37-42 Deacon Jim McFadden; SJB I’d like to begin this homily with a quiz: by a show of hands, how many in this assembly are baptized? O.K., nearly everyone. For those of you who raised your hands,…
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Christians: Stand Up To Be Counted
12th Sunday of O.T. (A); June 25, 2017 Jer 20:10-13 Ps 69 Rom 5:12-15 Mt 10:26-33 Deacon Jim McFadden; SJB Ringo Starr once sang that “If you want to sing the blues, you’ve gotta pay your dues, and you know it don’t come easy.” Applied to today’s readings, especially Jeremiah and Matthew, if…
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We Become What We Eat
Most Holy Body and Blood (A); June 18, 2017 Dt 8:2-3,14-16; Ps 147; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 Deacon Jim McFadden; SJB Most Americans don’t know what it’s like to go hungry. But, even in a country where obesity is a serious health concern, millions of people do in fact go hungry. Throughout…
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The Trinity and Solidarity
The Most Holy Trinity (A); June 11, 2017 Ex 34:4b-6,8-9 (Ps) Dn 3 2 Cor 13:11-13 Jn 3:16-18 Deacon Jim McFadden; SJB In the aftermath of our current president’s foreign trip, two of his top advisors wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal in which they said: “The president embarked on his first…
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Let’s Get Drunk…on the Holy Spirit!
The Solemnity of Pentecost (A); 6-4-17 Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104; 1 Cor 12:;3-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. Pentecost is not, one could safely say, the most beloved of Christian feasts, though it is of utmost importance since it marks the birthday of the Church! Nonetheless, marketers haven’t…
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Do Not Be Afraid
Baccalaureate Mass; May 23, 2017 Deacon Jim McFadden; SFHS Class of 2017, you first gathered at SFHS four years ago for the Frosh Overnight Retreat. It just seems like it was yesterday, but underneath the excitement of that charmed weekend was the reality that you just didn’t arrive here by chance. You were chosen…
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How to Deal with Conflict
Fifth Sunday of Easter (A); May 14, 20107 Acts 6:1-7 Ps 33 1 Pt 2:4-9 Jn 14:1-12 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison & SJB When I started my teaching career some 30 years ago, the first year was promising, gave me the reassurance that this is where God wanted me to be,…
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The Lord is my Shepherd
4th Sunday of Easter (A); May 7, 2017 Acts 2:14,36-51 Ps 23 1 Pt 2:20-25 Jn 10:1-10 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison Today is traditionally known as Good Shepherd Sunday, which presents us one of the most beautiful images that has portrayed our Lord Jesus since the earliest centuries of the Church.…
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Jesus Bursts Into Our Soul
Divine Mercy Sunday (A); April 23, 2017 Acts 2:42-47 Ps 118 1 Pt 1:3-9 Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison Today’s gospel begins “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked…” (Jn 20:1). Why were they locked? The disciples were afraid. They were…
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The Empty Tomb
The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Sunday, 2017 Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 118; Col. 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. Today we are celebrating The Resurrection of the Lord, which 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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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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