DeaconJoe's Homilies

Homily for Trinity Sunday

Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter

052525 6th Sunday of Easter - 6:15:25, 1.49 PM by Deacon Joe Dietz

Homily for Palm Sunday 2025, How did we get from there to here.

Homily for 3rd Sunday of Lent, Readings A, The woman at the well.

Homily for 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, The beatitudes and their apparent conflict with the American Dream.

Homily on Adam and Eve and the snake

Homily on John the Baptist and Herod.

Homily for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, The Wedding Feast at Cana, God is Good.

Homily for Thursday after Epiphany, Loving God Unburdens Us.

Homily for the Third Sunday of Advent, 2024.

Homily for 112724 Day before Thanksgiving 2024. Is Thanks to be God all it should be

Homily delivered at the Grandparent/Grandchild Mass at Christ the King Parish in November 2024

Homily for 33 Sunday in Ordinary Time, God's mercy prepares for our meeting with Him.

Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Like Bartimaeus we need to seel

Homily for Thursday 27 Week Ordinary Time. Stupid Galatians and Gift of the Spirit

Homily for Wednesday 23 Week in Ordinary Time, 911 aftermath an opportunity lost

Homily for Thursday 22 Wk in Ordinary Time, This was no ordinary catch of fish.

Homily for the Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time: Belief demands change.

Homily for the Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne the parents of Mary. Many long to see what we see and hear what we hear.

Homily for Tuesday the 15th Week Ordinary Time,

Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, The raising of Jairus daughter and healing of woman who touched Jesus cloak. It's all about the equation.

Homily for Thursday 12 Wk in Ordinary Time, Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom. What?

Message given at the Memorial Service for deceased classmates at the 50th Reunion for the Class of 1974 St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Ft. Lauderdale, June 2024.

Homily for Wednesday 10th Week of Ordinary Time, Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

Homily for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Year B, 2024.

Homily for Wednesday the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Memorial of St. Paul VI, Pope. Courage is a good thing.

Homily for Trinity Sunday 2024, Three Persons gives us three options for how to relate.

Homily for Wednesday 7Wk of Ordinary Time, We saw someone casting out demons in your name and we tried to stop them.

Homily for the Friday the Seventh Week of Easter. When you grow old you will stretch out your hands and be led.

Homily for the Feast of Sts. Philip and James.

Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2024, The vine and the branches. We are all rooted somewhere.

Homily for Friday the 3rd week of Easter, Paul's conversion, bread of life discourse. Sometime's it's just common sense.

Homily for Wednesday 2nd Week of Easter, The Eclipse and the tomb.

Homily for the Good Friday reading of the Passion. The cross fills the empty tabernacle.

Homily for Thursday the 4th Week of Lent, Who do we seek to please and why?

Homily for Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A, The Man Born Blind,

Homily for Thursday the 3rd Week of Lent the memorial of St. Perpetua and Felicity

Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent, Year B, The Transfiguration and reasons not to simply camp with Jesus

Homily for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, The difference that can change the world.

Homily for Ash Wednesday 2024, Visiting a sacred site.

Homily for the 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time, A love letter can take different forms.

Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2023 on Christmas Eve. Did the angel speak to you this weekend?

Homily for Christ the King of the Universe, If we want God to care for us as King when we need him, does it make sense to treat him as anything less the rest of the time?

Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, The workers in the vineyard. Identify with the grumblers no more.

Homily for 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Who do YOU say that I am?

Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, The pearl of great price.

Homily for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. A mulligan is not the goal.

Homily for Holy Thursday 2023, The Eucharist is a continuous celebration of the Paschal Mystery.

Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A, The raising of Lazarus. What is Lazarus had said No?

Homily for Friday 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Jesus is God and we are not.