Homily for Easter Sunday You know, over the last couple of weeks, I have had multiple conversations with many of my friends and many of our parishioners about this Lenten season. I don’t know what it was about this year, but for so many of us, it just seemed to be a really long and…
Homily for the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night Before we begin the homily this evening, I want to offer a word of welcome to our Elect and their family members and friends who have joined us this evening. This is the longest Mass that you will ever attend - that’s a given. But it…
Homily for Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter If you have been to a funeral that I preside at, you’ll know that this Gospel is one that I often use for funerals. It is known as the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus which He prays while in the Garden of Gethsemane in the hours…
Homily for the Solemnity of the Ascension Traditionally, the Feast of the Ascension takes place forty days after Easter. But, out of convenience for the faithful, the Bishops of the United States (except in a few locations) have moved the feast to the following Sunday, which is why we celebrate it this weekend. The Ascension…
Homily for Friday of the 6th Week of Easter “Do not be afraid. Go on speaking, and do not be silent, for I am with you.” These are the words that the Lord offered to Paul in our First Reading this morning from the Acts of the Apostles. They were meant to be an encouragement…
Homily for the Memorial of St. Philip Neri “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” Over the last couple of days now, we, as a country, have certainly been grieving with the news of yet another national tragedy.…
Homily for Tuesday of the 6th Week of Easter I’m not sure if this is everyone’s experience, but there are times when someone can be sharing something with me when I realize that at some point I stopped listening to what they were saying because I started thinking about a past experience of my own.…
Homily for Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter It is not always easy being a Christian. It’s not always a walk in the park following Jesus and being His disciple. Scripture reminds us of that so often. We see it this morning in our first reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Paul is…
Homily for the Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima As I mentioned at the beginning of Mass, today the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, remembering how our Blessed Mother appeared to three young children in Portugal from May 13 until October 13, 1917. This morning, I want to focus on the…
Homily for Thursday of the 4th Week of Easter It’s amazing to me how the Lord always seems to choose the right person to be His messenger at different moments. We see it time and again throughout Scripture, but I’m also sure that we’ve experienced it in our own lives as well. What we come…
Fr. Tom Pringle 