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…
Category: Homilies
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“I Lay Down My Life”
4th Sunday of Easter (B); April 21, 2024 Acts 4:8-12. Ps 118. 1Jn 3:1-2. Jn 10:11-18 Deacon Jim McFadden Two lovers look at one another and say without any reservation: “I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love and to honor you all…
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The Walk of All Time: The Road to Emmaus
3rd Sunday of Easter (B); April 14, 2024 Acts 3:13-15,17-19. Ps 42. 1 Jn 2:1-5. Lk 24:35-48 Deacon Jim McFadden The Easter season offers us a spirituality of hope. If Jesus can undergo such suffering and death and rise to new life, he can do the same thing in our life—right here, right now;…
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Merciful because we’ve received mercy
2nd Sunday of Easter (Mercy Sunday); April 7, 2024 Acts 4:32-35. Ps 118. 1 Jn 5:1-6. Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden The seven weeks between Easter Sunday and Pentecost constitutes the Easter season. While lest well known than Advent or Lent—people will give you quizzical looks when you say “Happy Easter” well into May—the…
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Go to Galilee: Begin Anew
The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night (B); 3-30-2024 8 Old Testament readings. Rom 6:3-11. Mk 16:1-7 Deacon Jim McFadden Tonight we celebrate with utter joy the Resurrection of Jesus, which confirms that Jesus is truly the Son of God, that his love for us has no limits, and that He is God…
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Washing of the Feet and the Eucharist
Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper (B); March 28, 2024 Ex 12:1-8,11-14. Ps 116. 1 Cor 11:23-26. Jn 13:1-5 Deacon Jim McFadden We begin the Triduum, the most sacred time of our liturgical calendar. The Gospel has the account of the Washing of the Feet and St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians in…
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The Messiah Has Finally Come!
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (B) Mark 11:1-10 (Procession) Deacon Jim McFadden 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 to Jerusalem, where he will fulfill the promises of the Messianic…
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La Nueva Alianza: Mirar dentro del Crucifijo
V domingo de Cuaresma (B); 17 de marzo de 2024 Jeremías 31:31-34. Sal 51. Heb 5:7-9. Juan 12:20-33 Diácono Jim McFadden Mientras la Cuaresma llega a su fin, la Iglesia nos da un texto extraordinario para nuestra meditación: Jeremías 31:31ss que dice: “Vienen días, dice el Señor, en que haré un nuevo pacto con la…
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The New Covenant: Look within the Crucifix
5th Sunday of Lent (B); March 17, 2024 Jer 31:31-34. Ps 51. Heb 5:7-9. Jn 12:20-33 Deacon Jim McFadden As Lent comes to closure, the Church gives us an extraordinary text for our meditation: Jeremiah 31:31ff which reads, “The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House…
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The Source of our Joy
Laetare/4th Sunday of Lent (B); March 10, 2024 2 Chr 36:14-16,19-23. Ps 137. Eph 2:4-10. Jn 3:14-21 Deacon Jim McFadden Today is the 4th Sunday of Lent, a.k.a. as “Laetare,” that is, “rejoice,” because the opening antiphon of the Eucharistic liturgy invites us to that joy: “Rejoice, Jerusalem—“Be joyful, all who were in mourning.” …
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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…
homilies
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…
Respect a Person’s Dignity!
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A); February 15, 2026 Sir 15:15-20. Ps 119. 1 Cor 2:6-10. Mt 5:17-37 Deacon Jim McFadden It can begin with the smallest gesture: an interested glance across a classroom, the brushing of a hand,…
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