11/28/10 Worship "I Want Your Heart."

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

"Here are the people of Israel, what they are doing during the rest of the week is not the same thing as what they're doing when they go to Worship. They are living these lives that are all about them. When it comes time to pray, when it comes time to worship, when it comes time to offer the sacrifice, 'Yeah, God, I am all yours. But the rest of the week, that's all mine.' What does God want?"

Mass Readings from November 28, 2010:
Isaiah 2:1-5
Romans 13:11-14
Matthew 24:37-44

11/21/10 Viva Cristo Rey

Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King.

"Standing face to face with Love Itself, standing face to face with God Himself, a God who loved them to death, who was willing to suffer and die for them, they said, "I don't want that king. I want a king who doesn't care about me." That's the question: Do you have a king in your life who doesn't care about you?"

Mass Readings from November 21, 2010:
2 Samuel 5:1-3
Colossians 1:12-20
Luke 23:35-43

11/14/10 The Art of Living: The Gifts of Work and Rest

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"Here is God, made Man, for 30 years he just maybe, possibly hauls rocks all day. That's all He does. Saving the world, one load of rocks at a time. What does He do with that, though? He spends a life at work so that every job you are at, every task that you do: every book that you read for school, every paper that you have to crank out, every tedious hour upon tedious hour in lab, even when you become parents, cleaning your child's diapers or picking up after they throw up, picking up a toy off of the ground, that work has dignity. It has meaning. And that work is a gift."

Mass Readings from November 14, 2010:
Malachi 3:19-20
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
Luke 21:5-19

11/07/10 The Art of Living: The Sticking Point

Homily from the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"The Church does not want to have blind adherence. The Church wants to have people who have thought this out and thought this through and have come to the conclusion, 'This is true. There is a right and there is a wrong. And I am going to do that right thing, even if it costs me my life. Because there are some things worth standing for. There are some things worth fighting for. And yes, there are some things that are worth dying for.'"

Mass Readings from November 07, 2010:
2 Maccabees 7:1-2,9-14
2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5
Luke 20:27-38

10/31/10 The Art of Living: What Is Our Response?

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

"If we think the Art of Living is just 'Avoid bad stuff,' then we're totally missing out on what it is to really live, we're totally missing out on the point of Christianity. It's not just about being good and not being bad. It's not just about going to Heaven and not going to hell. Being a Christian is the result of meeting a Guy named Jesus, it's the result of, like Zacchaeus, encountering Him and saying, 'I need.,.I want..I can be the someone that I've always wanted to be.' Brothers and sisters, you can be that someone you've always wanted to be."

Mass Readings from October 31, 2010:
Wisdom 11:22-12:2
2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2
Luke 19:1-10