Homily for Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time Over the last few days now, the readings at Mass have been challenging us by inviting us to go deeper into the mission that has been entrusted to us as disciples of Jesus. For all of us, that mission is to go out and proclaim…
Homily for Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time The other day, I was talking to someone about being a priest and they were asking me about what led me to enter seminary. I began sharing with them my vocation story, about growing up in the Church, being involved in various parish ministries, etc.…
Homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Introduction - Over the next couple of weeks, all of us will be invited to consider how we are called to be Disciples of Mercy. Each of us, as baptized Christians, are invited to follow Jesus and imitate our lives based on his own example.…
Homily for the Memorial of the Holy Name of Mary Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, a feast that has its origins in Spain in 1513. Pope Innocent XI decreed that it be observed by the entire Church in 1683 following a victory of the Polish army against the…
Homily for Friday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time September 11, 200`1 - a day that none of us will likely ever forget. That day seemed like it stood still, like the world came to a sudden halt, and rightly so because it did. Everything we knew – or, at least, everything we thought…
Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A | Please click here for the readings. Caesarea Philippi Over the last couple of weeks now, we have been reading from the Gospel of Matthew, hearing about the interactions between Jesus and his apostles as they traveled throughout the region of Caesarea Philippi. Two weeks…
Homily for Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time | Please click here for the readings. How many times in our lives have we encountered a moment of change and we raise an objection saying: “But this is how we’ve always done it!”? Those of us who have been in ministry for a long…
Homily for Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time | Please click here for the readings. Christ is Expelled Out of the City Preaching the Gospel is never easy. There have certainly been times in my own life when I have experienced that, even recently. As we have just heard, Jesus also experienced that…
Homily for Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time | Please click here for the readings. "The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones". Gustave Dore This reading from Ezekiel 37 is one of the passages of Scripture that I find absolutely fascinating and I hadn’t really paid attention to this much until…
Fr. Tom Pringle 