Homily for the Third Sunday of Advent. Recorded at St. Brendan Parish on December 13, 2009 at the 10AM Mass. Total time: 16m02s

Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent. Recorded on November 29, 2009 at St. Brendan Parish during the 10AM Mass. Time 12 minutes 43 seconds.

Homily for Christ the King Sunday. Recorded on November 22, 2009 at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish in Bothell, WA. I can't verify the information I referenced from wikipedia.com about Pat Carroll's death, so I'm not sure if that is true or not. Just goes to show that you can't always trust the info in Wikipedia.

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.

Homily Recorded for the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2009 at the 8AM Mass. I also wanted to include the letter I referenced from St. Stephen of Hungary. You can read that by going to the following link http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/198/Saint_s_Advice_to_His_Son____St._Stephen_of_Hungary.html

Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Bothell, WA. Total Time: 10:00 min

Homily for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (World Mission Sunday). Recorded at St. Brendan Parish on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at the 10AM Mass.

Quote used in the homily from the Message of Pope Benedict XVI 2009 for World Mission Sunday:

The nations will walk in its light" (Rev 21:24). The goal of the Church's mission is to illumine all peoples with the light of the Gospel as they journey through history towards God, so that in Him they may reach their full potential and fulfilment. We should have a longing and a passion to illumine all peoples with the light of Christ that shines on the face of the Church, so that all may be gathered into the one human family, under God's loving fatherhood.

It is in this perspective that the disciples of Christ spread throughout the world work, struggle and groan under the burden of suffering, offering their very lives. I strongly reiterate what was so frequently affirmed by my venerable Predecessors: the Church works not to extend her power or assert her dominion, but to lead all people to Christ, the salvation of the world. We seek only to place ourselves at the service of all humanity, especially the suffering and the excluded, because we believe that "the effort to proclaim the Gospel to the people of today... is a service rendered to the Christian community and also to the whole of humanity" (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 1), which "has experienced marvellous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself" (Redemptoris Missio, 2).

In truth, the whole of humanity has the radical vocation to return to its source, to return to God, since in Him alone can it find fulfilment through the restoration of all things in Christ. Dispersion, multiplicity, conflict and enmity will be healed and reconciled through the blood of the Cross and led back to unity.

Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 6PM Youth Mass on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Bothell, WA

Homily for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 8AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on OCtober 4, 2009. Total time: 13minutes 25 Seconds.

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Homily for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish, Bothell, WA on 09/27/09

Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 5PM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on September 19, 2009.

The article I used was from Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio and it is called "Anatomy of Envy" His website is: http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com

Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10 AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on August 30, 2009.

**Please note that I am on vacation for two weekends so there will not be any homilies posted until I return. **

Homily for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish, Bothell, WA. Total Time: 11 mins 41s

This is the homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on August 16, 2009 at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish.

The book I quoted from is When the Spirit Comes in Power by Peter Herbeck.

Homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded on August 8, 2009 at the 5PM Mass at St. Brendan Parish, Bothell, WA

Homily for the 128th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish in Bothell, WA 8/02/09 Total time: 9m39s

Homily recorded for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 19, 2009 at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan parish. Total time 12m50s

Strive to live as a priest, prophet, and king, and take authority in the name of Jesus Christ.

Homily for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 10AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on July 12, 2009. Total Time: 12m59s

Quote in homily was taken from "On The Way to Jesus Christ" from Joseph Ratzinger p. 102

Homily for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Recorded at the 8AM Mass at St. Brendan Parish on June 21, 2009. The song referenced in the homily is "Take My Hand And Walk" by The Kry. It is available on I-tunes. The quote from St. Frances DeSales is from Living in Love.

"The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' act of self-oblation. More than just statically receiving the incarnate Logos, we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving." (21) Jesus "draws us into himself." (22) The substantial conversion of bread and wine into his body and blood introduces within creation the principle of a radical change, a sort of "nuclear fission," to use an image familiar to us today, which penetrates to the heart of all being, a change meant to set off a process which transforms reality, a process leading ultimately to the transfiguration of the entire world, to the point where God will be all in all (cf. 1 Cor 15:28).
(Sacramentum Caritatis #11)

Homily for Trinity Sunday 2009. Recorded at St. Brendan parish during the 10AM Mass on June 7, 2009

Characteristics of A Humble Person
1. Place God First In All Things
2. Awareness of one's own limitations and sinfulness
3. Checking one's motives to make sure we're working and living for God and not earthly recognition

"Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. By faith we understand that the universe was ordered by the word of God, so that what is visible came into being through the invisible. "

Hebrews 11:1-3

Any "renewal" movement not based on personal conversion....is false.

God promises to lavish the Holy Spirit upon us. All we need to do is ask.

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.