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Good News to all creation.” Mark 16:15
This week we get a bonus homily from Fr. Michael. While in Cincinnati for a summer writing sabbatical, Fr. Michael celebrated a Memorial Mass on the 15th Anniversary of Fr. Jim Willig’s birth into eternal life. In this homily, Fr. Michael remembers his friend, Fr. Jim, and draws parallels between Fr. Jim’s life and the…
As summer approaches, Fr. Michael’s weekly homilies also approach a hiatus. This two part posting has the last homilies until September. Instead of a weekly homily during the summer, you can hear longer recordings from Fr. Michael that will be sent out to the mailing list for Fr. Jim Willig’s Gospel Studies. Fr. Jim did…
This week’s homily again comes from Fr. Michael’s recent journey to walk the Way of St. James, or the Camino de Santiago. Our lives, like the Camino, are made up of multiple journeys. This week Fr. Michael highlights the importance of the outer journey and the inner journey. With some humorous examples of pilgrims’ follies…
Today’s homily was given in Spain while Fr. Michael walked part of the Camino – the ancient pilgrim path to the final resting place of St. James the Apostle, with a group of 34 people – the youngest was 12 and the oldest 78. Some were in great shape (two marathon runners), but others were…
By and large in the United States, we are spared many of the hardships endured by those in other parts of the world. For the most part our water is clean, our food safe and our way of life secure. The same is not true for everyone, especially those displaced by war, natural disaster or…
If YouTube existed in Jesus’ time, this Gospel would be in a compilation titled “Jesus’ Epic Fails” and included with it would be Jesus’ arrest, His prosecution, His crucifixion & death, and then the martyring of almost all of His disciples. In this Gospel many of Jesus’ followers leave him. They walk away. They decide…
Whose voice will you follow today? The voice of the One Shepherd, or the voice of the deceiver? Fr. Michael reminds us that the language of faith is the language of poetry, not the language of science and reason. Jesus speaks using alliterative language to describe his role and the love that God has for…
Last week, we heard the story of Jesus appearing to Peter and some Apostles who were fishing. At the end of the Gospel, Jesus asked Simon Peter three times, “Do you love me?” This week Fr. Michael suggests another question. Will you choose darkness or light? Will you live by circumstance or choose to acknowledge…
Can you remember the last Saint you met? Who was that person that you just knew was bound for heaven? In this week’s Gospel and Homily, Fr. Michael explores St. Peter’s transformation from humiliated denier to rock of the Church. He draws parallels between St. Peter’s life and Fr. Jim Willig’s life and describes the…
Just like Jesus, Mary Magdalene was an unlikely witness to God’s love for us. A troubled woman with a questionable past, she clung to Jesus like a baby to it’s mother; until… Until… Until that is, Jesus told her, “Do not hold onto me.” He sent her on a mission to evangelize, to spread the…