web01.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:01:38 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Luke 10:41 - Episodes Tagged with “Christ” https://frwill.fireside.fm/tags/christ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:30:00 -0600 Fr. Will is a Priest of the Diocese of Austin, TX - He sometimes blogs at. https://luke1041.com/ en episodic Homilies and talks by Fr. Will Rooney and other guests. Fr. William Rooney Fr. Will is a Priest of the Diocese of Austin, TX - He sometimes blogs at. https://luke1041.com/ no Fr. William Rooney williamlrooney@gmail.com Called by Name | Identity – Beloved Sons and Daughters | 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time https://frwill.fireside.fm/2026-01-18 6405de71-c635-4c3c-8e94-3c1d8a7058bd Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:30:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full 4 Fr. William Rooney This homily continues the Called by Name series by reflecting on Christian identity. Preached by Dcn. Chris Haberberger, the homily explores a fundamental question: Who are you? Drawing from Scripture and the lived experience of modern life, this reflection challenges the fragile identities we often cling to—roles, achievements, and affiliations—and points instead to the one identity that endures: being a beloved son or daughter of God. Rooted in baptism, this identity is received, not earned, and becomes the foundation from which vocation, freedom, and mission flow. 14:22 no This homily is the second reflection in the Called by Name: Relationship, Identity, and Mission series. Preached by Dcn. Chris Haberberger, it focuses on the unshakable Christian identity revealed in baptism. Beginning with the simple but searching question, “Who are you?”, the homily examines the many labels we use to define ourselves—our work, relationships, achievements, and affiliations—and the anxiety that arises when those identities shift or disappear. While these roles matter, they are ultimately fragile and unable to bear the full weight of the human heart. Drawing from the Gospel of John, Dcn. Chris proclaims the central truth of the Christian faith: through baptism, we are not metaphorically but truly made sons and daughters of God. This identity is not achieved through performance or self-construction, but received as a gift of God’s love. From this secure identity flows true holiness, freedom, and vocation—not as anxious striving, but as a trusting response that can finally say, “Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.” This reflection prepares the way for the final homily in the series, which will focus on mission as the fruit of relationship and identity. Catholic, faith, mass, identity, christ, This homily is the second reflection in the Called by Name: Relationship, Identity, and Mission series. Preached by Dcn. Chris Haberberger, it focuses on the unshakable Christian identity revealed in baptism.

Beginning with the simple but searching question, “Who are you?”, the homily examines the many labels we use to define ourselves—our work, relationships, achievements, and affiliations—and the anxiety that arises when those identities shift or disappear. While these roles matter, they are ultimately fragile and unable to bear the full weight of the human heart.

Drawing from the Gospel of John, Dcn. Chris proclaims the central truth of the Christian faith: through baptism, we are not metaphorically but truly made sons and daughters of God. This identity is not achieved through performance or self-construction, but received as a gift of God’s love. From this secure identity flows true holiness, freedom, and vocation—not as anxious striving, but as a trusting response that can finally say, “Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.”

This reflection prepares the way for the final homily in the series, which will focus on mission as the fruit of relationship and identity.

]]> This homily is the second reflection in the Called by Name: Relationship, Identity, and Mission series. Preached by Dcn. Chris Haberberger, it focuses on the unshakable Christian identity revealed in baptism.

Beginning with the simple but searching question, “Who are you?”, the homily examines the many labels we use to define ourselves—our work, relationships, achievements, and affiliations—and the anxiety that arises when those identities shift or disappear. While these roles matter, they are ultimately fragile and unable to bear the full weight of the human heart.

Drawing from the Gospel of John, Dcn. Chris proclaims the central truth of the Christian faith: through baptism, we are not metaphorically but truly made sons and daughters of God. This identity is not achieved through performance or self-construction, but received as a gift of God’s love. From this secure identity flows true holiness, freedom, and vocation—not as anxious striving, but as a trusting response that can finally say, “Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.”

This reflection prepares the way for the final homily in the series, which will focus on mission as the fruit of relationship and identity.

]]> Vain Treasures (Homily for 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time) https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-26-english 9cf92271-a989-4d12-b51f-df2eabd18f06 Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full 2 Fr. William Rooney 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. 6:12 no A-OT-17, OF, Treasure, vain, vice, Christ Sons nor Servants: Living without fear (Homily for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost) https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-07-26-ef 6afd5fcd-9d33-4617-98e9-791a964cffaf Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full 2 Fr. William Rooney 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. 8:03 no Christ, EF, EF-Post-Pentecost-8, extraordinary form, filial, freedom, son, love, fear, TLM, Jesus, catholic, homily Excess and Defect 2020 #6 - Untamed Virtue (Anger) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-06-anger 83a5ef34-c05f-487a-a5e0-7f5a3abfe561 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In this episode, first, we get angry at technology(!) and then talk about the vice of wrath...and how to distinguish it from righteous anger, as we had at technology. 46:17 no charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, wrath, anger, vice, virtue Excess and Defect 2020 #5 - All that glitters is not gold (Avarice) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-05-avarice 9f89c550-9dca-4a4c-a937-93f249560be2 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney Why we need virtue more than ever in this hour. How to overcome the vice of avarice - a disordered love of money. 43:26 no charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, avarice, vice, virtue Excess and Defect 2020 #1 - Vice Precedence (Pride) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-01-pride 1aeaaa8f-2614-4e36-ac70-017d79190d4c Thu, 27 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives. 34:35 no In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives. An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr12?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2) Lent, vice, virtue, pride, excess, defect, freedom, charity In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives.

An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

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An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

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