Luke 10:41

Stay Focused | Homily For Fourth Sunday of Advent | Dcn. Matt

December 24th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  6 mins 54 secs

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Waiting with Love | Homily for the Third Sunday of Advent | Fr. Will Rooney

December 17th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 25 secs

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Today the Church places before our eyes the greatest examples of waiting that we have in the Bible. John the Baptist and Mary, the Mother of Jesus. If we want to learn what to do in the waiting, we can look to them. What do they do in the waiting? Both Mary and John teach us how to wait – that we are in fact called to charity while we wait – both also specify that above all else our Charity is to direct others to an encounter with God.

Waiting with Hope | Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent | Fr. Will Rooney

December 10th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  19 mins 58 secs

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When we know we are loved it changes everything, when we know we are awaited it changes everything. The story of Josephine Bakhita demonstrates the power of hope. Our faith leads us to trust God, and through it we come to hope in his promises. Hope then changes the way we wait.

Waiting with Faith | Homily for the First Sunday of Advent | Fr. Will Rooney

December 3rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  16 mins 24 secs

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O Lord make us turn to you; let us see your face, and we shall be saved. (Psalm 80:4) We do not get to choose whether or even how long we wait, but we do get to choose how we wait. We wait because we are human; but how we wait determines whether we flourish or fail as humans. We wait in faith. We cry out in our waiting, O Lord make us turn to you; let us see your face, and we shall be saved.

Share Jesus - Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Will Rooney)

December 18th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 27 secs

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Friends, Jesus Christ has come, and humanity in the person of Mary comes to know it first through the message of the messenger (angel) Gabriel. The question is for us – will we do the same for others? Will we share Jesus with others? 4. Sharing Jesus means inviting people to encounter Christ through authentic personal testimony involving actions and words.

Share Jesus - Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Brian Eilers)

December 18th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  15 mins 7 secs

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What is the reason for your hope? To share Jesus means to share hope. How can you share your hope with others today and this Christmas?

Live Jesus - Third Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Will Rooney)

December 11th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 10 secs

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Will you live for Jesus? Will you let him live in you! Joy awaits, even in suffering.

Live Jesus - Third Sunday of Advent 2022 (Fr. Brian Eilers)

December 11th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  13 mins 34 secs

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Know Jesus - Second Sunday of Advent 2022

December 4th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 3 secs

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John helps us realize that we not only have to meet Jesus, but we need to know him. Its natural to ask questions about people when we meet them. The disciples and apostles do just this in the gospels – they ask questions. Where are you from? Who are you? What are you doing? To meet him and to know him are linked. As people who have meet this man Jesus we want to grow in knowledge of him. We want to know who he is (God), what he did (his life, death, and resurrection), how he continues to act today (the Church), and what our response (prayer, love, and following him). So here’s the challenge – set aside time this week to read one of the Gospels. And ask questions: in the silence ask Jesus to teach you to know who he is so you can love him more and see reality as it really is.

Meet Jesus - First Sunday of Advent 2022

November 28th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  11 mins 54 secs

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How do we meet Jesus? The meeting we desire to have now with the Lord is one that leads us to discover (or rediscover) who Jesus is, why he matters, and which leads to a desire to follow him as a disciple. It is only that type of resolve that will make the meeting we experience at the end of time not be like that of strangers but rather that of friends. A disciple is one who has resolved to run to meet the Lord in every aspect of his life his life has been changed because he knows Jesus. He is a friend of the king who is coming. How can you resolve to run to meet the Lord?