Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us a textOne year at the Christmas Eve Children's Mass, I was walking the children through Luke's nativity. I had some cloth figures that I was using to illustrate the Gospel story. Mary and Joseph were making their way to Bethlehem. This particular set of characters included a donkey, so the donkey came with Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. Next, I brought out a manger, and then I placed the baby Jesus in the manger.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, December 28 @ 9:30/11:30 amI will have Mass at St. Andrew next Sunday, January 4 @ 5 pm.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textAt Christmas, Jesus, who is close to the Father's heart, comes to embrace us and welcome us home.I have Mass on Christmas Day at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am.frjoedailey@gmail.comMay the blessings of Christmas be yours in abundance this day and throughout the New Year.

Send us a textMatthew's telling of Joseph's story empowers us all to take our place on that crowded pageant stage. The rest of us play only supporting roles in the cast. We are not “Gospel leads.” In God's holy dream, we are accepted as we are: partners in God's labor. The Savior is of our own lineage. "Unto us" —all of us— "a child is born."I have Mass on December 21 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Sunday Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/I will have Mass on Christmas Day at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am.frjoedailey@gmail.ccom

Send us a textThere is a principal for interpreting scripture that goes like this, “If something is repeated, it must be important.” Did you notice that Matthew keeps repeating the number 14?

Send us a textJohn the Baptist was sent as a messenger to prepare the way of the Lord. And now, awaiting execution, John's death at Herod's hands will foreshadow Jesus' own death on the cross. On the cross, Jesus prayed the opening line of Psalm 22, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" Inside his cell, John faces his own experience of abandonment and doubt.I have Mass on Sunday, December 14at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. Andrew @ 5:00 pmfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textAt the heart of Christmas is the Christ child who is born among us. Imagine you are the child, sleep in the manger, awakening to the vision of God's kingdom.I have Mass on Sunday, December 7 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textAbout a month ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and his wife, Queen Rania visited Pope Leo at the Vatican. During their photo-op, Rania brought up the Pope's upcoming visit to Lebanon, and wondered whether it was safe for him to go there. Pope Leo responded, “Well, we're going.”I have Mass on Sunday, November 30th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. livestream https://stisidore.church/worship-online/https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15nX2tseLr/?mibextid=wwXIfrfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textWe don't "see" the light itself; we see things because of the light. In the light of Christ, we are being given a glimpse of the very being of God's own self. We are made in God's image, so our lives can reflect the way God thinks and loves.I have Mass on Sunday, November 23 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textJesus, and the crowd around him, are standing in front of the Temple, but they are not seeing the same thing. The crowd are marveling at the costly stones, while Jesus sees that not one stone will be left upon another stone.This weekend at all the Masses, Archbishop Weisenburger is announcing the start of a multi-year reorganization process in the Archdiocese of Detroit. I have Mass on Sunday, November 16 at St. Isidore @ 7:30 am. live stream link: https://stisidore.church/worship-online/I have Mass at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textWe are called and sent from within these walls, like a river that flows out into the desert, allowing God's Spirit to flow through us, not to block it, but to let it flow through us, so that all who hunger and thirst for God may be satisfied. And all those who are wounded may find their way back home.I have Mass on Saturday, November 8 at Holy Name Church in Birmingham @ 4 pm.I have Mass on Sunday, November 9 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThere is a local cemetery in Lake Orion, right around the corner from the parish where I had been pastor for 31 years. I buried a lot of people in that cemetery, so I know a lot of the neighbors. We bought graves there for our whole family. When people found out that a priest was going to buried in the cemetery, all the graves around us sold.I have Mass on Sunday, November 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textLuke tells a familiar story in chapter 19 about a wealthy tax collector who kept his distance. “Zacchaeus kept trying to see who Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way.”I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, October 26 @ 9:30/11:30 am.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a text“There are moments in the history of humanity,” Tomáš Halík writes, “as well as in the history of the church and in our own lives, when we are confronted more than at other times with God's hiddenness, God's silence.”I have Mass on Sunday, October 19 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed.https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe lone Samaritan has a dilemma: to which temple should he report? Jesus surely means the Jerusalem Temple, but as a Samaritan he recognizes Mount Gerizim as the true place to worship God, and his priests are, of course, the Samaritan priests at Gerizim.I have Mass on Sunday, October 12 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamedhttps://stisidore.church/video_post/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textI am preaching this homily on our pilgrimage in Poland. We visited Auschwitz/Brirkenau camp this morning; we are celebrating Mass in Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, where Karol Wojtyra (St. John Paul II) came on pilgrimage as a boy.When I visited Krakow in 2001, we toured the Wawel Cathedral. There's a great bell in the tower, like Big Ben in London. It weighs 11 tons and it takes 12 people to ring it. This bell is named Zygmunt, and it has been rung for every major event in Poland since it was cast in 1520.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textI think the key to this parable is the gate. The rich man is on one side; Lazarus is on the other. In the story, the gate never opens. In fact, its role as a barrier eventually translates into an uncrossable chasm in eternity.I am away this weekend.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe steward realizes that generosity is the best investment. He gets himself out of a hole by building social capital. It is irrelevant, apparently, that he gives away what does not belong to him.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, September 21 @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textChrist is the word that went forth from the mouth of God, achieving the saving purpose for which he was sent, and then returned to take his place with God in glory.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, September 14 @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textIn 2020, I saw the Sundance Documentary Film, “Crip Camp.” The title comes from a 1970's summer camp for handicapped teens, which in those days were called crippled children, hence the name, "Crip Camp." (The movie is showing on Netflix.)I have Mass on Sunday, September 7 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am.at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pmThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textA few years later I visited the St. Egidio community in Rome. On Christmas morning, after the last mass, all the chairs in the church are rearranged, tables are set up, and a banquet is served to the poor in the neighborhood.I have Mass on Sunday, August 31 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textAt the opportune time, the caterpillar spins itself inside the narrow space of the chrysalis, to emerge, transformed, into a butterfly. I have Mass on Sunday, August 24 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textJeremiah was thrown into a cistern, where he would have died if Ebed Meloch hadn't pulled him out. Jeremiah's sin was being faithful to the word of God, which left him odd man out. Four against one. Jeremiah had to be gotten rid of.I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, August 17 @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textShifting from a scarcity outlook to one of abundance takes time. We've believed the lie of scarcity for so long that we may find it hard to believe it's not true. I have Mass on Sunday, August 10 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textWhen we began a style of production and consumption that would eventually ravage planet Earth, Francis decided to love Mother Earth and live simply and barefoot upon her. I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, August 3rd @ 9:30/11:30 am.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe Hebrew letter lamed is 30 and the letter vav is six; together, the two letters equal 36 – the number of the righteous in every generation whose virtue keeps the world from destruction. These 36 hidden righteous ones are called Lamed-vavniks. They live both for themselves and for others (twice chai); meeting the world's suffering with compassion.I have Mass on Sunday, July 27 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a text“Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.”  We are so sure we know where this story is going, we run right past the opening line.I have Mass on Sunday, July 20that St. Isidore, 9:30/11:30 amat St. Andrew, 5:00 pmfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textI preached  the memorial service for NHL Hockey hall of fame legend, Alex Delvecchio, at Modetz Funeral Home, Saturday, July 12. (2 Corinthians 4:5–10, Psalm 23, Matthew 11:25-30.)We do not come to God alone. Someone brings us to faith, and we help others find their way to God. There is no solitary way to heaven. In our Catholic imagination, If we're going to be saved, we are saved together.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe Samaritan is the despised one who puts himself at risk in coming to the aid of the wounded man. Jesus is already doing likewise. I have Mass on Sunday, July 13 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

Send us a textSomeone caught up with Jesus and said, “I will follow you wherever you go.”  And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Luke appears to think that the same thing  might just apply to all of us. “Take nothing with you; carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals."I have Mass on Sunday, July 6 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe church is not just the place we come to, it is the place from which we are sent forth. We need both, Peter and Paul. Peter, the Rock, who centers us and grounds us in faith; and Paul, the missionary, who calls us to go out to live the good news with our lives.I have Mass on Sunday, June 29 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textNew Testament scholar, Fr. Francis Moloney, OSB, in his essay, “A Body Broken for a Broken People”, writes, “Jesus eats with people who fail, even at the Last Supper.”I have Mass on Sunday, June 22 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textEver since I heard the news of Brian Wilson's death this week, I keep hearing over and over in my head, “God only knows what I'd be without you.” The song reassures us that love will never end. “As long as there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it. I'll make you so sure about it.”I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, June 15 @ 7:30/9:30 amthe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textIn the Acts of the Apostles, on the day of Pentecost, THEY were all in one place together. A few verses earlier Luke told us exactly who THEY are: Mary the Mother of Jesus was there, along with about 120 persons.I have Mass on Sunday, June 8 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textSo before leaving them, he tells his disciples to go back to Jerusalem and there wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. If they want to find Jesus, they will find him in the Christian community, in the midst of their every day lives.I have Mass on Sunday June 1, at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

Send us a textAlthough we refer to Scripture as the “Word of God,” it is Jesus of Nazareth who is the "Word of God" made flesh and dwelling among us. So this collective memory is fluid and dynamic.I have Mass on Sunday, May 25 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textWhile the story of the Bible begins with a garden, it ends in a city. The new Jerusalem is the fulfillment of all human dreams for the community. This is not a vision of individuals communing one-on-one with God or Jesus, but rather an interdependent community, a city, living out the essential nature of human life.I have Mass on Sunday at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textHow appropriate that we welcome a new shepherd as the Bishop of Rome on this 4th Sunday of Easter, that we call Good Shepherd Sunday. The whole world was stunned Thursday afternoon to hear the name of the American Cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost, chosen to be our new pope. He has taken the name Leo XIV. I have Mass on Sunday, May 11 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amat St. John Fisher @ 6:00 pmfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textIn our Easter readings from the Gospel of John, there are a series of encounters between various groups of disciples and the risen Lord. But in each of the three episodes, one of the disciples is singled out as if a dance partner with the risen Christ.I am away this weekend celebrating First Communion with my Grand-Niece.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textJesus speaks clearly to this moment, not with words, but with a gesture; He showed them his hands and his side.I have Mass on Sunday, April 27at St. Isidore, 7:30/9:30 amat St. Andrew, 5:00 pmfrjoedailey@gmail.com 

Send us a textIn John, no well-informed angels rushed in to explain the missing body. Mary had expected to find at least a corpse; instead she found a void, an opening in the darkness.I have Mass on Easter Sunday Morning at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textI will be at St. Isidore this Sunday for all three Sunday morning Masses: 7:30/9:30/11:30 am;  I will preside at the 7:30/9:30 am Masses, but I will be part of the passion proclamation with several readers at all three Masses.The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/I have mass on Easter Sunday  at 7:30 AM and 9:30 AMFrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textLuke 22:14-23:56

Send us a textThey place the woman alone beside Jesus, which, as it turns out, is exactly where Jesus wished to be. Beside the sinner. I have Mass on Saturday, April 5, at St. Andrew, 5:00 pmI have Mass on Sunday, April 6, at St. Isidore, 7:30/9:30 amthe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textI preached a different homily at the Mass for the 2nd Scrutiny with the Elect (Catechumens), using the readings for Cycle A: John 9, the Man Blind from Birth.https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033025-YearA.cfmfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textOne of the characters that I think we overlook in the story is the fatted calf. Do you know how much the fatted calf weighs? About 750-800 pounds. Reconciliation is for the whole community.I have Mass on Sunday at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/I have 5:00 pm Mass on Saturday, April 5 at St. Andrewfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe fig tree is standing in for the cross. Only by standing under the cross will we be able to understand how God is leading us out of the place of slavery and death into a land of promise and abundance.I have Mass on Sunday, March 23 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 amfrjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textRudolph Otto defined the sacred as “mysterium tremendum et fascinans” —a fearful and fascinating mystery. That mysterious Other who draws us almost irresistibly, at the same time fills us with awe and even dread.I have Mass on Sunday, March 16at St. Isidore, 7:30/9:30 amat St. Andrew, 5:00 pmthe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textThe devil tempts Jesus three times with the little word, "If." "If you are" is supposed to cause Jesus to doubt that he is the Son of God and feel the need to prove it.I am off this weekend. Next Sunday I will have Mass @ St. Isidore at 7:30/9:30 am and St. Andrew @ 5 pm.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textIt's the beam in our own eye that makes the world look splintered. You know how it is with pointing fingers, one is pointed, but three are pointing back at you.I have Mass on Sunday, March 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/frjoedailey@mac.com

Send us a textThe Greek word for grace is CHARIS. When Jesus builds his rhetorical crescendo, criticizing reciprocal love (even sinners do that!), the word translated as “credit” is CHARIS. The phrase is better translated, “If you love those who love you, what grace [CHARIS] is that to you?”  I am away this weekend.frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us a textKeeping my eyes fixed on Jesus, I find the center, a level ground on which to stand. Jesus is the still point in a turning world. Like a tree, planted by the water, I shall not be moved.I have Mass on Sunday, February 16 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 amThe 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/