are we drinking from the right well?
3rd Sunday of Lent (A); March 8, 2026 Ex 17:3-7. Ps 95. Rom 5:1-8. Jn 4:5-42 Deacon Jim McFadden This Sunday we have the wonderful opportunity to revisit the story of the woman at the well, which is the…
Category: Homilies
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Jesus is Present in a New Way
The Feast of the Ascension; May 8, 2016 Acts 1:1-11 Ps 47 Eph 1:17-23 Lk 24:46-53 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison Today we are celebrating the great Feast of the Ascension, which is the culmination of the Easter season in which Jesus is “lifted up” to full participation in the…
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Every Christian is a Missionary
6th Sunday of Easter (C); May 1, 2016 Acts 15:1-2,22-29 Ps 67 Rv 21:10-14 Jn 14:23-29 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison In today’s Gospel, we heard a passage from Jesus’ farewell discourses. Our Lord is giving his last thoughts as a spiritual guide to the apostles before he enters his Passion and…
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Dare to Dream
Farewell Mass; April 27, 2016 Acts 15:1-6 Ps 57 John 15:1-8 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. Francis High School Soon the St. Francis community will temporarily disband as we venture into summer vacation. We say Farewell to several of our teachers and staff, who are being sent to other ways of serving the Lord…
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Jesus Bursts into our Soul
Divine Mercy Sunday (C); April 3, 2016 Acts 5:12-16 Ps 118 Rv 1:9-11,12-13,17-19 Jn 20:19-31 (New) Folsom Prison; Deacon Jim McFadden Jesus is Risen! What a joy to proclaim this wonderful message—one that is the ultimate “game changer”! The Resurrection is THE pivotal moment in all of Salvation History. Everything has changed; everything…
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The Empty Tomb
The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Sunday, 2016 Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 118; Col. 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 (New)Folsom Prison; Deacon Jim McFadden I would like to begin the homily with a prayer: Lord and brother Jesus, we gather together to speak of you because you are Risen. We know and love you because through your…
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One Who Doesn’t Serve Doesn’t Live
Good Friday; March 25, 2016 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. St. Ireneaus, one of the early Fathers of the Church said that “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” Well, was does it mean to be “fully alive”? What does it mean to be a human being…
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Watch Out!
3rd Sunday of Lent (C); March 27, 2016 Ex 3:1-8,13-15; Ps 103; 1 Cor 10:1-6; Lk 13:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden; Folsom Prison Throughout the Catholic Church, today is the First Scrutiny for catechumens. Who are catechumens? They are those who have inquired into becoming a member of the Catholic Church and, after a…
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Discipleship–We’re All Unworthy
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C); 2-7-16 Is 6:1-8 Ps 138 1 Cor 15:1-11 Lk 5:1-11 Deacon Jim McFadden; Folsom Prison One of my spiritual heroes is the Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who once wrote that Christianity without discipleship is cheap grace. He walked the talk as he sacrificed his life in his…
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Baptism: the Door to New Life
Baptism of the Lord (C); January 10, 2016 Is 40:1-11 Ps 29 Ti 2:11-3:7 Lk 3:15-22 Deacon Jim McFadden; Folsom Prison With this Sunday following the Epiphany, the Christmas season draws to a close. After the dark days of Advent, we now enter a time of light, the light of Christ who appears…
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Give All You’ve Got
32nd Sunday in O.T. (B); November 8, 2015 1 Kgs 17:10-16 Ps 146 Heb 9:24-28 Mk 12:38-44 Deacon Jim McFadden; Folsom Prison If some roving reporter came up to our Lord today and asked, “Jesus from Nazareth: in one succinct sound-bite, what’s your message?” In response, he may have said, “My message is…
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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…
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…
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