Fr. Will Rooney
Co-Host of Luke 10:41
Fr. Will Rooney was baptized at St. Anthony’s Parish in Bryan, TX where his parents had been married. He has two younger brothers, David and Travis. Will received his First Communion at St. Anthony’s and around that time began to think about becoming a priest. Will was confirmed at St. Thomas Aquinas in May 2006. During high school, he actively participated in the parish youth group and was involved in robotics competitions. He and his brothers also raised poultry for 4-H and FFA projects. Upon graduation from A&M Consolidated High School in 2009, Will studied Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University. While at A&M, he worked as a Middle School youth minister and felt a growing desire toward priesthood. In his senior year at A&M, he decided to apply for seminary, was accepted, and began attending Holy Trinity Seminary for pre-theology after he graduated. Two years later, Will was sent to St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston for theological studies. He served his pastoral year at St. Louis, King of France, Catholic Church and School in Austin (2017-2018). He was ordained to the Diaconate May 18, 2019 and currently ministers at Our Lady of the Visitation in Lockhart, TX. He was be ordained to the priesthood June 27, 2020 and currently ministers at St. Mary Cathedral in Austin, TX
Fr. Will Rooney has hosted 146 Episodes.
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Non-Anxious Rendering
October 19th, 2020 | Season 2 | 16 mins
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Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God (Mt 22:21)
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Will you go to the feast?
October 11th, 2020 | Season 2 | 14 mins 26 secs
catholic, faith, heaven, hell, king, love, mass, wedding
To be disregarded or despised is a painful experience for us human beings. Have you considered that God, in creating free persons, opened himself to being despised and disregarded? From the beginning, he opened himself to the possibility of being despised and disregarded. The Cross is God’s answer to this. It comes down to this: will let him love us? Will we accept his gift or spurn it? He loves you. Will you disregard him, despise him, or will you receive him and be saved?
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Hurting and Healing
September 15th, 2020 | Season 2 | 12 mins 20 secs
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Our false image of God can get in the way of completely receiving his mercy. When that happens often desperately grasp after other things in order to try and earn our way to heaven. This grasping, which is sin, harms us and harms others. It will cause us to lose the joy that we should have as Christians.
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Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo
September 10th, 2020 | Season 2 | 9 mins 55 secs
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¿Porque un discípulo tiene que amar a su prójimo? Esta homilía fue dada en la ocasión del Bautismo, Confirmación, y Primer Comunión de dos niños de nuestra comunidad.
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Hobos for Heaven
September 9th, 2020 | Season 2 | 12 mins 18 secs
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But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. (Matt 6:33)
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Correcting with Love
September 7th, 2020 | Season 2 | 18 mins 7 secs
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If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone Matthew 18:15
“Reckon him no more amongst the number of thy brethren. But yet neither is his salvation on that account to be neglected. For the very heathen, that is, the Gentiles and Pagans, we do not reckon among the number of brethren; but yet are we ever seeking their salvation” – St. Augustine
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Grátias agámus Dómino Deo nostro
September 1st, 2020 | Season 2 | 11 mins 27 secs
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He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. (Lk 17:16)
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Prophetic Anguish
August 31st, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 36 secs
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The folly of the Cross becomes the salvation of all. Brothers and sisters, to share in his anguished heart which beats for every human soul. What greater joy could be found?
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Making friends by being friends
August 26th, 2020 | Season 2 | 12 mins 8 secs
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Christ himself is the Good Samaritan who finds you and me wounded and naked on the side of the road and heals us and raises us up. He makes us his neighbors and friends. We are called to invite others to become our neighbors by being their neighbors as Christ did for us. Then we must invite them to meet our best Friend, the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever and ever.
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Harsh Healing Words from the Word
August 18th, 2020 | Season 2 | 11 mins 51 secs
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For her benefit and for our benefit, the Lord draws faith out of the Canaanite woman. She becomes a remarkable example of what trusting prayer in faith looks like. For when we desire in prayer, nothing other than the will of God, then it will be done in our lives.
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Reaching out to the one who reaches for us
August 9th, 2020 | Season 2 | 10 mins 3 secs
If we admit our need before God, our weaknesses are not the end of the story but only its beginning
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Fighting Relationally
August 4th, 2020 | Season 2 | 11 mins 49 secs
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Simply bask in the fact that God loves you. Your sin, your past temptations, your present struggles, none of them can change the fact that God loves you. He’s loved you from the beginning, and he will always love you. You are his son or daughter. Christ compassionately weeps when he sees us in sin because he loves us. He is always present and desires to enter the temple of our hearts and cleanse it of the robbers who wish to cause us harm.
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Give them something yourself
August 3rd, 2020 | Season 2 | 9 mins 24 secs
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Perhaps in encountering an impoverished person, we fear recognizing our own poverty and need: the truth that human beings exist fundamentally in relation. This fact is made perfectly clear in the incarnation, the enfleshment of Our Lord Jesus, who is God, needed his Mother. As we pass through our daily lives in the City of Austin, we encounter a vast multitude of people who do not know Jesus and who have never received the bread which will satisfy. The Lord’s words should resound in our ears: “there is no need for them to go away, give them some food yourselves.”
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Homilia Tesoros vanos (en espanol)
July 29th, 2020 | Season 2 | 7 mins 53 secs
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Saber lo que es correcto es esencial, pero no es suficiente. Debemos elegir hacerlo. Debemos decidir cada día vivir de acuerdo con lo que sabemos que es correcto. Debemos desear a Dios por encima de cualquier otra cosa o persona buena. Dios es supremamente generoso contigo y conmigo.
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Vain Treasures (Homily for 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time)
July 27th, 2020 | Season 2 | 6 mins 12 secs
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Knowing what right is essential, but it is not enough. We must choose to do it. We must decide each day to live according to what we know is right. We must desire God above every other good thing or person. God is supremely generous with you and me.
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Sons nor Servants: Living without fear (Homily for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost)
July 26th, 2020 | Season 2 | 8 mins 3 secs
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As the bread and wine are made Christ, who always cries out to the Father, so also our lives must be made into Christ through the work of the Spirit so that in union with him, we too cry out Father through that same Spirit.