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Your Holy Family | The Mission of the Family – To Educate, Empower, and Evangelize | Feast of the Epiphany

January 7th, 2026  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 44 secs

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This homily concludes a Christmas–Epiphany series on the family by reflecting on the Feast of the Epiphany and the mission entrusted to every Christian family. Preached by Fr. Will Rooney, this reflection draws on the visit of the Magi to show how Christ chooses to reveal Himself—and change lives—through the witness of a family. Just as Jesus was manifested to the nations through the Holy Family, so every family is called to become an epiphany: a living sign of God’s grace that educates, empowers, and evangelizes through prayer, sacrifice, and love.

Your Holy Family | Motherhood – To Receive, Reflect, and Respond | Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

January 2nd, 2026  |  Season 4  |  14 mins 48 secs

This homily continues a Christmas–Epiphany series on the family, turning fittingly to the vocation of motherhood on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Preached by Dcn. Chris Haberberger, this reflection explores how God chose to reveal Himself not through power or spectacle, but through a mother who receives, reflects, and responds to the gift of her Son. Drawing from Scripture and the example of Mary, this episode shows how Christian motherhood gives Jesus to the world—not first by words, but by presence, prayer, and sacrificial love—and invites every family to rediscover what it means to belong as beloved children of God.

Your Holy Family | Fatherhood - To Protect and Provide | Feast of the Holy Family

December 28th, 2025  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 28 secs

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This homily for the Feast of the Holy Family launches a new Christmas–Epiphany series on the family. In this first reflection, Fr. Will explores the mystery of the Incarnation—God choosing to enter the world not only as a child, but within a family. Drawing from Scripture and the witness of St. Joseph, the focus is on the role of the father as provider and protector, whose authority is rooted in charity and self-gift after the model of Christ. This episode invites all families—especially those marked by struggle or brokenness—to conversion, healing, and renewed hope in Christ.

Healing Divisions; Bringing Communion | Homily for Pentecost Sunday 2024| Fr. Will Rooney

May 19th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 22 secs

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No one can steal your joy. | Homily for 8th Grade Graduation Mass 2024 | Fr. Will Rooney

May 14th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 52 secs

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Friendship with Jesus | Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter | Fr. Will Rooney

May 5th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  10 mins 49 secs

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WHAT IF I BECAME A TURKEY? | Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter | Fr. Will Rooney

April 21st, 2024  |  Season 3  |  9 mins 37 secs

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Loved Not Tolerated | Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter | Fr. Will Rooney

April 14th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  11 mins 56 secs

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Where's Jesus? | Homily for Easter Sunday | Fr. Will Rooney

March 31st, 2024  |  Season 3  |  12 mins 9 secs

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Where's Jesus Priest and Victim | Homily for Holy Thursday | Fr. Will Rooney

March 28th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  18 mins 54 secs

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Where’s Jesus? At the Tomb | Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent | Fr. Will Rooney

March 17th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  15 mins 28 secs

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Friends, in our own way, we have all been in this situation where hope seems to fade away. God is seemingly silent during human suffering and misery. On a grand worldwide scale, and on the small personal scale – we all experience the four days of the tomb. God is not in fact, absent but sometimes he works silently. God so loves us brothers and sisters that he refuses to let death have the last say. God so loves us that he sends his only beloved Son, to die for us and rise from the dead, that all who believe in him might have eternal life. He dies to prove to us how much God loves us. Jesus comes not simply to heal us a little bit, but to raise the dead to new life.

Where's Jesus? Outcast | Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent | Fr. Will Rooney

March 10th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  15 mins 27 secs

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To live with the knowledge of having encountered Christ means that we realize the immensity of the task before us, because we like the blind man cannot stay silent. Part of the man’s healing was to walk through the city with mud on his eyes, and then to return healed so that all could see him. And immediately, people begin to question him. So also, as people will inevitably question any Christian with the courage to live according to the new law of Christ. If we are willing to live according to the new law of grace, we will draw many people to also encounter him.

Where’s Jesus? He Thirsts for you! | Homily for 3rd Sunday of Lent | Fr. Will Rooney

March 3rd, 2024  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 10 secs

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Where's Jesus been in your life this week? How are you doing in allowing him to teach you how to resist temptation like he taught in the Gospel 2 weeks ago? Are you thinking of heaven? What about sacrifice and glory? In this week's message (only in audio), we find ourselves near a well in Samaria, longing for lasting joy. Often, we seek worldly pleasures to quench our thirst, forgetting that only Christ offers living water. Despite our misguided pursuits, He thirsts for our souls, offering fulfillment beyond earthly desires. As we hear His call, let us not harden our hearts, for He alone can satisfy our deepest longings.

Glory and Sacrifice | Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent | Fr. Will Rooney

February 25th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  14 mins 3 secs

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Each Sunday in Lent we will ask "Where's Jesus?" so that we can be with him and imitate him. Today, we are on Mount Tabor, and Jesus teaches we are called to glory. In the very act of showing us the end, Jesus also shows us that the glory of the Resurrection only comes about through sacrifice. And that the sacrifice of faith, the sacrifice which God asks of us, requires some sort of death.

Where's Jesus? | Homily for 1st Sunday of Lent | Fr. Will Rooney

February 18th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 5 secs

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Each Sunday in Lent we will ask "Where's Jesus?" so that we can be with him and imitate him.

Invitation to Imitation | Homily for 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time | Fr. Will Rooney

February 12th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  8 mins 29 secs

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