Homily for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2012. Recorded at St. Brendan parish at the 10:00AM Mass on January 22, 2012. Total Time: 12min06sec

"His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of hima who called us by his own glory and power.
Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge,
knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,
devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.
If these are yours and increase in abundance, they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone who lacks them is blind and shortsighted, forgetful of the cleansing of his past sins.
Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your call and election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble.
For, in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you." 2 Peter 1:3-11

Homily for the Solemnity of Mary 2012. Recorded at the 10AM Mass on January 1, 2012 at St. Brendan parish. Total Time 15min43sec

Homily for the 3rd Sunday in Advent. Recorded at the 10:00 Am Mass at St. Brendan parish. Toal playing time: 13min12sec

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Recorded at the 10:30AM Mass at Christ The King parish in Seattle, WA. Total time: 13min12sec

Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent. Recorded on November 27, 2011 at the 10:00AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish. Total Time 10min13sec

Homily for Christ The King Sunday 2011. Recorded at the 5PM Mass on Saturday, November 19. Total Time: 11min02sec

Homily Resource: http://www.jnorthrop.com/pdf/hrchristtheking.pdf

Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on November 12 at the 6PM Mass at St. Brendan parish. Total Time: 10min42sec

Homily for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass on November 6, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total Time: 10min39sec

Homily for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on October 30th, 2011. Total Time: 13min13sec

Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total Time:11min11sec

Homily for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on October 16, 2011 at the 10AM Mass. Total playing time: 9min40sec

Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 8AM Mass on October 9, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total Time: 9min11sec

Homily for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total playing time: 10min25sec

Thanks for listening! Have a blessed week!

Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at St. Brendan parish during the 8:00AM Mass. Total time: 8min10sec

Homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on September 10, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total time: 8min17sec

Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10:00AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on September 4, 2011. Total Time: 11min46sec

Homily for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan parish on August 21, 2011. Total Playing Time: 14min56sec

You can view the document I refer to in the homily by copying this link and pasting it in your browser.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2009/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20091208_immacolata_en.html

Homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on August 14, 2011 at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Catholic Church. Total Time 10min19secs

Homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass on August 7, 2011 at St. Brendan Catholic Church by Fr. Jim Northrop.

Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan parish on July 24, 2011. Total time: 12min

Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 8AM Mass at St. Brendan parish on July 17th, 2011. Total time: 11min46sec

Homily for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on July 10, 2011. Total Time: 18min15secs

Homily for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Recorded at the 5PM Mass on Saturday, June 25, 2011 at St. Brendan parish. Total Time: 11min40sec

Recorded at the 8AM Mass on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at St. Brendan Parish, Bothell, WA. Total playing time: 9min56sec

Homily for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 6PM Youth Mass at St. Brendan Catholic Church on Sunday, June 14, 2010. Total Playing Time: 12 Minutes 46 seconds

Homily for the Solemnity Of Corpus Christi. Recorded On June 6, 2010 At the 10 AM Mass At St. Brendan Parish. Total Playing Time: 8min06sec

Homily for Trinity Sunday. Recorded at the 8 AM Mass on Sunday, May 30, 2010 at St. Brendan Parish. Total time: 10min58sec.

I gave a different homily at the other two weekend Masses since we were celebrating First Holy Communions.

Homily for Pentecost Sunday, Recorded at the 10 AM Mass on Sunday, May 23, 2010. Total playing time:16m37s

Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter. Recorded from home on April 20, 2010. Opening song is "Lord We Long For You (Heal Our Nations) from Hosanna! Music "All Nations Worship"

Quote from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger from 1969 Radio Interviews on Bavarian Radio.

"From today’s crisis, a Church will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a great deal. She will be small and, to a large extent, will have to start from the beginning. She will no longer be able to fill many of the buildings created in her period of great splendor. Because of the smaller number of her followers, she will lose many of her privileges in society. Contrary to what has happened until now, she will present herself much more as a community of volunteers... As a small community, she will demand much more from the initiative of each of her members and she will certainly also acknowledge new forms of ministry and will raise up to the priesthood proven Christians who have other jobs... There will be an interiorized Church, which neither takes advantage of its political mandate nor flirts with the left or the right. This will be achieved with effort because the process of crystallization and clarification will demand great exertion. It will make her poor and a Church of the little people... All this will require time. The process will be slow and painful."

Homily For Easter Sunday. Recorded at the 10 AM Mass on April 4, 2010 at St. Brendan Parish

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent (Cycle C). Recorded at the 6PM Youth Mass at St. Brendan parish on Sunday, March 14, 2010. Total Time: 9min58sec

"In fact, what would our culture, art, and more generally, our civilization be without this revelation of a God who is a Father full of mercy? It does not cease to move us and every time that we hear it or read it is always able to suggest new meanings to us. Above all, this evangelical text has the power to speak to us of God, to make us know his face, better yet, his heart. After Jesus has told us about the merciful Father, things are not as they were before. Now we know God: he is our Father, who out of love created us free and endowed with conscience, who suffers when we are lost and celebrates when we return. Because of this, the relationship with him is built through a story that is analogous to what happens to every child with their parents: At the beginning the child depends on them; then he asserts his own autonomy; and in the end -- if there is a positive development -- he arrives at a mature relationship based on reconciliation and authentic love."

excerpt from Pope Benedict XVI's Sunday Angelus - March 14, 2010

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (Cycle C Readings) recorded at home on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Total Time: 8min46sec

Audio clip is "His Strength Is Perfect" by Steven Curtis Chapman.

You can watch the interview from Life Today by going to this link: http://lifetoday.tv/qt/2010/03/100304.htm

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent. Recorded on Monday, March 12, 2010 at home. Total time: 9min14sec

Homily for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 5PM Mass on February 6, 2010. Total time: 12m35s

Homily for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on January 31st at 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish. Total Time 14:46

Homily for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at St. Brendan parish at the 10AM Mass on Sunday, January 24, 2010. Total time 15m38s

Homily for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 8AM Mass at St. Brendan parish, Bothell, WA. Total Time 15m23s

Homily for the Baptism of the Lord. Recorded on June 10th at the 6PM Youth Mass at St. Brendan parish. Total Time: 15minutes 28seconds

Homily for Epiphany Sunday 2010. Recorded by Fr. James Northrop at the 10:00AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on January 3, 2009. Total Time: 12 min 30 sec

Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on November 15, 2009 at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish, Bothell, WA Total time 12 minutes 39 seconds

Homily recorded at the 6PM Youth Mass on November 8, 2009 at St. Brendan Parish. The audio quality is a bit poorer than previous recordings because I wasn't able to use the lapel microphone but had to place the recording unit on the pulpit. The quality gets better as you get further into the message. I'll make sure to have the mic next weekend.

1. We must be present to God and present to people.
2. We must recognize the value and contribution of everyone who has different duties than we have. We must also be content with our work and work for God.
3. We must spend more time with the Jesus and allow Him to shepherd us.

 1. Rediscover the importance of sacrificial love - in order to gain something has to be given.
2. Simplify - prayerfully examine our lives to make sure we're doing what God wants
3. Deepen our prayer life.

1. Keep Your Hand To The Plow - Develop a personal plan of spiritual growth and always move forward.
2. Process Your Disappointments (Isaiah 61) "Beauty For Ashes"
3. Rejoicing In The Lord Must Be Our Strength (Nehemiah 8:10) Always be looking for signs of Redemption and celebrate those victories of Grace.

1. Revelation
2. Receptivity
3. Relationships

1. Follow The Magisterium and worry about your own example and vocation.
2. Find more time for prayer and contemplation.
3. Learn the value of praising God in all cirumcstances.

Homily For The 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Homily For the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)

Have a most blessed and joyful Easter! Christ is risen! Allelulia!

Homily For The 5th Sunday of Lent (3/25/07)

Steps to Being More Fruitful

1. Deal with your own issues (Jesus warns us in the Gospel not to dwell on other people's sinfulness but to be open to the grace of repentance ourselves)
2. Surrendering the desire to control and yielding to the Holy Spirit (Avoid Starbucks Catholicism)
3. Foster an attitude of gratitude and look around to see how others are living. We are so blessed as a country but often fall into grumbling.

I referenced the following articles during the homily:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=103757

http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3430

We must learn to enter the desert and to confront the reality of sin so as to allow the Holy Spirit to transform us from within. Many people never grow spiritually because they're worried about cosmetic fixes (botox injections) and appearances and not open-heart surgery. A radical trust in God and the life-changing power of the Holy Spirit is needed for this transformation. As this transformation takes place we are free to serve God more effectively. We are freed from sin so we can live in freedom by the law of the Holy Spirit.

We must learn to put our trust in God and ensure that we're taking in good spiritual things so that we can learn to shoulder the disappointment of human failure and learn to bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

In this message I share what a great gift the Liturgy of the Hours is and how it can help us stay focused and spiritually healthy.