Readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 2-3A, 5-6; Matthew 2: 1-12Click here to download a PD of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Joan Sobala To begin, the Magi didn’t just happen to see the star. They had to focus their vision on the heavens. It’s likely that other astronomers and astrologers saw the star too, but only three—for whatever holy or gainful… read more →
Readings: Genesis 15: 1-6; 21: 1-3; Hebrews 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Luke 2: 22-40Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Frank Staropoli Seamus and Dierdre O’Heaney were sitting in their usual pew at St. Malachy’s on Holy Family Sunday. Their eight children were arrayed, four on either side of them, placed in the order their parents deemed least likely… read more →
Readings: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Romans 16: 25-27; Luke 1:26-38Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Phyllis Tierney, SSJ “Keep trudging!” was a favorite message of my good friend and pastor, Fr. Frank Connolly during my first years as a pastoral assistant at St. Pius Tenth in Greensboro, NC. It was God’s message to the Israelites… read more →
Readings: Isaiah 61: 1-2, 10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John: 1:6-8, 19-28Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Janet Korn Advent is generally a hopeful, festive, and positive time of the year, at least in the United States, but this year is different for us. We are not all on the same page when thinking about our country.… read more →
Readings: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11; 2 Peter 3: 8-14; Mark 1: 1-8Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack We hear today’s words from the prophet Isaiah: God asks us to “Comfort, give comfort to my people.” Peter, age 47, loving husband and father of 3 said, “I was detached from the pain of people. I didn’t give… read more →
Readings: Isaiah 63: 16B-17, 19B, 64: 2-7; 1 Corinthians 1: 3-9; Mark 13: 33-37Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Ruth Marchetti Two thousand and twenty years ago a young couple waited for the birth of their child. Like all parents, they were hopeful and expectant, despite the desperation of their poverty or the cruelty of the ruling… read more →
Readings: Ezekiel 34: 11-12, 15-17;1 Corinthians 15: 20-26, 28; Matthew 25: 31-46Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Barbara Moore Our liturgical year is ending with a focus on “Kingship” and that seems so countercultural these days. I am always amazed by the attention the British Royal Family receives here in the States. I also sense that… read more →
Readings: Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-6: Matthew 25: 14-30Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sister Karen Dietz Sue Monk Kidd, in her book Dance of the Dissident Daughter asks the question: After you wake up, can you wake up anymore?” I thought of that quote as I prayed with St. Paul’s message to the… read more →
Readings: Wisdom 6:12-16; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deirdre McKiernan Hetzler How many of us are looking forward to the end of this pandemic? To returning to some semblance of normalcy? And it’s taking too long, isn’t it? Many of us have pandemic fatigue. Tempted to let our guard down. We weren’t… read more →
Readings: Revelations 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3: 1-3; Matthew 5: 1-12AClick here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sonja Livingston By the time I attended Corpus Christi School in the 1980s, it was struggling to survive. Such struggling was not new to me. One of seven kids in a single-parent family, I spent my childhood in some of the… read more →