Category: Homilies

  • Desafios y confrontaciones

     3er domingo de Cuaresma (B);3 de marzo de 2024 Éxodo 20:1-17. Sal 19. 1 Cor 1:22-25. Juan 2:13-2  Diácono Jim McFadden En el evangelio de hoy, se muestra a Jesús expulsando a los cambistas y a todos los compradores y vendedores del templo de Jerusalén. Realiza este acto con la ayuda de un látigo de

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  • Challenges and Confrontations

    3rd Sunday of Lent (B); March 3, 2024 Ex 20:1-17.  Ps 19.  1 Cor 1:22-25.  Jn 2:13-25 Deacon Jim McFadden        St. Paul has told us in our first reading that “Christ (is) the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24b). Jesus revealed that power and wisdom by offering forgiveness and

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  • La atadura de Isaac/La atadura de Jesus

    La atadura de Isaac/La atadura de Jesús 2º domingo de Cuaresma (B); 25 de febrero de 2024 Génesis 22:1-2,9a, 10-13. Sal 116. Romanos 8:31b-6:34. Marcos 9:2-10 Diácono Jim McFadden Durante el segundo domingo de Cuaresma nos encontramos con una historia muy inquietante en la primera lectura que tradicionalmente se llama “La atadura de Isaac”. La

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  • Jesús entre las fieras y los ángeles

    1er domingo de Cuaresma (B); 18 de febrero de 2024 Gén 9:8-15. Sal 25. 1 Pe 3:18-22. Marcos 1:12-15 Diácono Jim McFadden Cada año la Iglesia nos amonesta a volver el rostro hacia el misterio y el corazón de nuestra fe: el misterio pascual del vivir, morir y resucitar de Jesús y nuestro propio vivir,

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  • Jesus Among the Wild Beasts and Angels

    1st Sunday of Lent (B); February 18, 2024 Gn 9:8-15.  Ps 25.  1 Pet 3:18-22.  Mk 1:12-15 Deacon Jim McFadden Each year the Church admonishes us to turn our faces once again to the mystery and heart of our faith: The Paschal Mystery of the living, dying, and rising of Jesus and our own living,

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  • Un Dios que se “cposntamina” con nuestra humanidad herida

    Un Dios que se “contamina” con nuestra humanidad herida VI Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario (B); 11 de febrero de 2024 Lev 13:1-2,44-46. Sal 32. 1 Cor 10:31—11:1. Marcos 1:40-45 Diácono Jim McFadden Los últimos domingos nos hemos encontrado con Jesús, el Divino Médico de nuestros cuerpos y almas. Fue enviado a nuestro mundo plagado de

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  • A God who ‘taints’ himself with our wounded humanity

    6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B); February 11, 2024 Lv 13:1-2,44-46.  Ps 32.  1 Cor 10:31—11:1.  Mk 1:40-45 Deacon Jim McFadden             The last few Sundays we have encountered Jesus, the Divine Physician of our bodies and souls.  He was sent into our world plagued by alienation, polarization, dissension, dysfunction, and social injustice of every

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  • Jesús: Querido y Glorios

    5º Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario (B); 4 de febrero de 2024 Trabajo 7:1-7. Sal 147. 1 Cor 9:16-23. Marcos 1:29-39 Diácono Jim McFadden Querido y glorioso médico fue un clásico histórico/ficción sobre San Lucas de Taylor Caldwell publicado en 1959. Recuerdo haber devorado el libro cuando era un adolescente que vivía en San Francisco, lo

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  • Jesus: Dear and Glorious Physician

    5th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B); February 4, 2024 Job 7:1-7.  Ps 147.  1 Cor 9:16-23.  Mk 1:29-39 Deacon Jim McFadden             Dear and Glorious Physician was a classic historical/fiction about St. Luke  by Taylor Caldwell published in 1959.  I remember devouring the book as a teenager living in San Francisco, which was part of

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  • The Holy One of God

    4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B); January 28, 2024 Dt 18:15-20. Ps 95. 1 Cor 7:32-35. Mk 1:21-28  Deacon Jim McFadden This Sunday’s Gospel reading (cf. Mk 1:21-28) narrates the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry in which he breaks into the world of illusion and of the demonic through his powerful word and deed. Our

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The Holy Family Were Refugees

The  Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph; 12-28-2025 Sir 3:2-6.  Ps 128.  Col 3:12-21.  Mt 2:13-15, 19-21 Deacon Jim McFadden        On this first Sunday after Christmas, the Liturgy invites us to celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family…

a God who gathers

Christmas (A)  ; 12-25-2025 Is 52:1-7.  Ps 97.  Heb 1:1-6 .  Jn 1:1-18 Deacon Jim McFadden          Christmas celebrates God’s overwhelming desire to be united with us.  Sometimes we wonder, why does he bother?  He’s perfect—he doesn’t need anything since…

History is Going Somewhere and it rhymes

4th Sunday of Advent (A); December 21, 2025 Is 7:10-14.  Ps 24.  Rom 1:1-7.  Mt 1:18-24 Deacon Jim McFadden             As we enter into the 4th Sunday of Advent, let us remember that salvation history has a trajectory which comes…