Homily for Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time This Gospel should really challenge us because it calls us to go against what our human instincts tell us. Typically when someone hurts us in some way or hurts someone we love, we tend to want to get revenge. We want to hurt them in…
Homily for Tuesday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time In the Gospel that we’ve just heard, Jesus tells us that we are called to be salt and light in the world. In other words, we are called to make the world a better place; we are called to bring others to a deeper experience…
Homily for Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time In our Gospel this morning, we hear a part of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus is instructing his followers in what it means to be a true Christian disciple. Living the Beatitudes is the way for us to live discipleship to the fullest.…
Homily for the Memorial of St. Boniface I think many of us, looking at the state of affairs in our country and in many other places around the world, have seen, especially over the last several months, just how far removed we are from Christian values. All we have to do is look at the…
Homily for Friday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time Over the last few days, we have been reading through the Book of Tobit for our first readings. They have been telling the tale of a family who has been on the receiving end of so much suffering and hardship. But more than that, they…
Homily for Friday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time This morning, I’m going to do something a little different with my homily, something I don’t do often enough…I’m going to preach on the Responsorial Psalm because it’s a message that I think all of us need to be reminded of from time to time.…
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time Introduction - Over the last couple of weeks now, we have been reflecting on this idea of sanctification. Our series began with the celebration of the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. It was a day that we recalled Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist in…
Homily for Monday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time One week from today, I will celebrate my 6-month anniversary as a priest, which is kind of hard to believe. Some days I feel like I’m still learning new things about the priesthood while others make me feel like I’ve been a priest for 10…
Homily for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B INTRODUCTION - Tonight we have the second part of our homily series Sanctification, which began last weekend. For those of you who were here this past Sunday, the first part of the series focused on how Jesus sanctified baptism, raising it from merely a ritual…
Homily for Saturday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time This past weekend, we celebrated the close of the Christmas season with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Throughout Christmas, we were constantly invited to think about how Jesus, as He stepped down from Heaven, took on our human flesh and became one…
Fr. Tom Pringle 