Catholic Jacks Podcast

June 1, 2025. Ascension homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus ascends into heaven to draw our attention to the bigger picture of our ultimate destination. We are invited to go on mission with Him and use our energies with the goal of heaven in mind.

May 18, 2025. Fifth Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how we are invited to embrace the paschal mystery with Jesus of His suffering, death, resurrection, and glorification.

May 11, 2025. Fourth Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God the Father pours out His gifts on His children, holds them in His hand, and leads them to eternal life.

May 4, 2025. Third Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites Peter, and us, to follow Him and join Him on mission in gathering His lost sheep. The successor of Peter is the Pope today who continues to be guided by the Holy Spirit in gathering all people to the Lord.

April 27, 2025. Divine Mercy (Second Sunday of Easter) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers His love into our sin, shame, and fear, giving us divine mercy.

April 20, 2025. Easter Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how our faith has come down to us through witnesses, leading us to an encounter with Jesus and His new life, making us witnesses for others.

April 19, 2025. Easter Vigil homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus passes over from death to life as a pattern He wishes to work in our world and in each of our lives.

April 17, 2025. Mass of the Lord's Supper (Holy Thursday) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus feeds us with Himself out of love. He establishes the Eucharist and the priesthood, and gives them a model of service to imitate.

April 13, 2025. Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus chooses to embrace the Father's will even though He in His human nature, He may not have wanted to. Jesus chooses to be with us in our suffering and invites us to embrace the cross with Him.

April 6, 2025. Fifth Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus encounters the woman caught in adultery with forgiveness and love.

March 30, 2025. Fourth Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how the Father celebrates and rejoices, but we have so many reasons when we can do the same. We are a beloved son/daughter and nothing could take that away.

March 23, 2025. Third Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus advocates for us and desires us to persevere. God invites us to take that next step forward regardless of where we have been and at some point, fruit will be borne.

March 16, 2025. Second Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus gives us a glimpse of the glory to come in heaven. Jesus embraces our suffering and walks with us on the way to the cross, in hopes of the Resurrection to follow.

March 9, 2025. First Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God invites us to call on Him in our time of need. Rather than relying on our own strength, we can be reminded of God's faithfulness through the Scriptures and turn to Him now.

March 2, 2025. Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how what flows out of us reveals what is in us. We can bring to God that which is not good so that we are filled more and more with His goodness.

February 23, 2025. Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how we are called to forgive and love others, who are God's anointed ones.

February 16, 2025. Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ invites us to place our hope in Him, knowing that He is with us in all things and working all things for our good.

February 9, 2025. Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus draws near to Simon Peter and invites him to follow Him. Jesus wants to work through Simon Peter, but needs His openness to being sent and going with Jesus.

February 2, 2025. The Presentation of the Lord homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus, the Light of the World, comes to fulfill the Old Covenant by establishing the New Covenant in His blood. His light fills the Jerusalem temple, yet now He wants His light to fill us, His temple today, and be kept burning brightly until He leads us to the heavenly temple.

January 26, 2025. 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about the words of Scripture have power and God desires to fulfill them as we hear His Word.

January 19, 2025. Second Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus desires to bless us with good wine now. His invitation is for us to bring our concerns and difficulties to Him and for Him to with be with us in them.

January 12, 2025. Baptism of the Lord homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us His divine grace in baptism and then invites us to become disciples through cooperating with His transforming grace.

December 25, 2024. Christmas homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God who is all powerful and move all things by His arm, chooses to humble Himself and become a baby so that we can embrace Him in our arms.

December 22, 2024. Fourth Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is continually trying to come to us, if we have hearts and ears open to it. One privileged way is through Mary, the mother of His Son, Jesus.

December 15, 2024. Third Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how we are called to Rejoice this Sunday and always, knowing that God is with us and in His will, all things work for good.

December 9, 2024. Immaculate Conception homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Mary cooperated with God's grace. Even though we are not perfect, by cooperating with God's grace in His plan in our life, we are perfected.

December 8, 2024. Make Straight the Path by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

December 1, 2024. First Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come again and now is the time to do what we need to be ready.

November 24, 2024. Christ the King by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

November 17, 2024. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come again. As we may have experienced His peace, love, and mercy already, so His coming on the last day will bring even more. We embrace His nearness this day so that we can ready and at peace on that day He comes again.

November 10, 2024. The Power of Poverty by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

November 3, 2024. 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God calls us to love Him above all because it helps heal and redeem our fallenness.

October 27, 2024. 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Bartimeus approaches Jesus with the desire to see. Even though Bartimeus was blind, he saw enough to know that Jesus is God and the One he needs.

October 20, 2024. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to embrace His will and lay down our lives in service.

October 13, 2024. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to follow and experience the goodness He holds in store for us. He asks us to let go of what possesses us to be able to receive more of what He wants to give.

October 6, 2024. 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us the unique relationship of man and woman to bless one another and the world. By loving in marriage we become the people God desires us to be.

September 29, 2024. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to cooperate with His effort to remove sin and all that separates us from Him. He invites us to come to Him as we are and let His mercy purify us.

September 22, 2024. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to accept His cross and will as we would receive a child. Jesus chooses to be with us in our suffering, holding us, and working all things for our good.

September 15, 2024. 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to freely embrace the cross because there we find Jesus carrying the cross with us out of love.

September 8, 2024. 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants not only to heal us but to bring us to salvation.

September 1, 2024. 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants to form our hearts by His commandments. As our hearts are transformed by His goodness, we can look forward to more and more goodness flowing out of us.

August 25, 2024. 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how when people walked away from Jesus due to His teaching on His Real Presence in the Eucharist, He invited the other disciples to make a choice. Peter responds, where else shall we go, you have the words of eternal. God loves us and our freedom and invites us to make a choice today for Him.

August 18, 2024. 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us His very self to nourish, sustain, and heal us. We can receive Jesus now and by His grace we are led to eternal life.

August 11, 2024. 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us physical and spiritual sustenance to strengthen us on our journey to heaven.

August 4, 2024. 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how our goal as Christians is union with God. In the Eucharist, Jesus is both the means that gives us strength and the end to which we are journeying (union in heaven).

July 14, 2024. 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus sends us out with nothing because He wants to be our everything. By responding with courage and following His prompts, we and the world are changed.

June 23, 2024. 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how although Jesus is sleeping in the boat, He is still with us. Jesus stretches us to the point of being uncomfortable because He wants us to grow.

June 16, 2024. Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how growth takes time and often in unseen ways. By God's grace, if we cultivate our faith and do what is good, it is guaranteed to bear fruit.

June 2, 2024. The Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus (Corpus Christi) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus enters into a covenant with us through His blood. He shares His divine spirit with us and invites us to offer ourselves back to Him.

May 26, 2024. Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is a Trinity of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, whose love pours out into our lives. We are then invited to go share His love, which allows us to experience even more of it.

May 12, 2024. Ascension Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus' power with us can help us persevere through all things. Jesus is with us in our suffering and desires to raise us to share in His divinity in heaven.