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Jesus offers a parable about a sower of seeds, revealing how different types of soil lead to vastly different outcomes. (Lectionary #397) July 23, 2025 - Cathedral Rectory - Superior, WI Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com
Homily of Fr. Mike O'Conner from Mass on July 23, 2025 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. Referenced Readings: Exodus 16:1-5, 9-15 Matthew 13:1-9 If you would like to donate to OLG and her livestream ministry, please go to https://olgchurch.net/give
Listen to Fr. Steve's homily from 7/23/25.Thanks for listening! Please leave us a rating and/or review, and share on social media or with a friend! You can email ashley@rootedinthereallyreal.com with any questions or suggestions. God bless.
Come to Me: Discovering True Rest in Christ The Homily contrasts our productivity driven culture . . . . . . where only the “best” are chosen . . . with Jesus' open invitation to the weary and overlooked. Two anecdotes illustrate the point: a seminary soccer game in which an unskilled player is always picked last, and a mother abandoned by her husband when their disabled daughter could no longer “contribute.” Both stories expose a world that prizes achievement but discards weakness. In sharp relief, God declares in Scripture, “I am concerned about my people,” and Christ echoes, “Come to me … and I will give you rest.” This “rest” is more than relief; it is the deep satisfaction and fulfillment God experienced on the seventh day of creation. The Homily urges listeners to drop their reservations, open their hearts fully, and accept the only rest that truly satisfies . . . the peace and completeness found in Christ. How? Hear more within this Meditation Media. Listen to: Come to Me: Discovering True Rest in Christ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christ and the Children: Mexican Painter: Juan Urruchi: late 1800s
Join Father Kevin Drew as he preaches on this Memorial of St. Bridget of Sweden. Today's readings First Reading: Galatians 2:19-20 Psalm: Psalm Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 Gospel: John 15:1-8 Catholic Radio Network
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Fr. Larry Richards of The Reason For Our Hope Foundation Podcast
Mary Magdalene discovers the empty tomb and encounters the Risen Lord, who commissions her to go to the Apostles and proclaim the Good News. (Lectionary #603) July 22, 2025 - Cathedral Rectory - Superior, WI Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com
St. Mary Magdalene (Feast)
Homily of Fr. Mike O'Conner from Mass on July 22, 2025 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. Referenced Readings: Song of Songs 3:1-4b John 20:1-2, 11-18 If you would like to donate to OLG and her livestream ministry, please go to https://olgchurch.net/give
Join Father Kevin Drew as he preaches on this Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene. Today's readings First Reading: Song of Songs 3:1-4b Psalm: Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Gospel: John 20:1-2, 11-18 Catholic Radio Network
This week, we take a look back to a 2019 episode of the podcast when Timothy George and Robert Smith Jr. introduce a series of homilies given at the funeral of the late Rev. Dr. James Earl Massey.
Msgr. Roger J. Landry Chapel of the Pontifical Mission Societies, St. Petersburg, Florida Feast of St. Mary Magdalene July 22, 2025 Songs 3:1-4, Ps 63, Jn 20:1-2.11-18 To listen to an audio recording of today's homily, please click below: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicpreaching/7.22.25_Homily_1.mp3 The following points were attempted in the homily: Today as we inaugurate this new […] The post Learning from Mary Magdalene as Forgiven, Supportive, Thirsting and Joyful Apostles, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2025 appeared first on Catholic Preaching.
22 July 2025
Fr. Larry Richards of The Reason For Our Hope Foundation Podcast
Here are some of the main themes that we discover in the Mass readings for the 17th Sunday of the Year. (Lectionary #111) July 21, 2025 - Cathedral Rectory - Superior, WI Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com
When asked to give a sign to the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus cites the prophet Jonah and calls us to repent of our sins. (Lectionary #395) July 21, 2025 - Cathedral Rectory - Superior, WI Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com
We continue our sermon series looking at Psalm 51 as we look at repentance and the depths of sin. Also, we find new life in Christ which is freely given.Psalm 51:1-17 Sin is the serious defiance of God.Sin firstly is offensive to THE LORD.Sin is extensively devastating. God is so gracious.Exodus 34:6 The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.God's grace is costly to Him, but free to us.Confession leads to restoration.Honestly leads to a re-created heart.Humility leads to re-established joy.
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor of the Church (Feast)
Homily of Fr. Mike O'Conner from Mass on July 21, 2025 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. Referenced Readings: Ex 14:5-18 Mt 12:38-42 If you would like to donate to OLG and her livestream ministry, please go to https://olgchurch.net/give
In the story of Mary and Martha, Jesus calls Martha out of herself and her serving to relaxation and prayer. What is it that we need to be called out of? Fights with a friend? Anxieties about work? Messy homes? Allow Jesus to call you out of it and into His peace. Come, follow us: Parish Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify Music
Homily for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 20, 2021) Total Time: 11m51sResource: "Shut Out The World" by Sean Smith
Join Father Kevin Drew as he preaches on this Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Today's readings First Reading: Exodus 14:5-18 Psalm: Exodus 15:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6 Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42 Catholic Radio Network
Homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time by Fr. Stephen Hamilton.Reading 1 Genesis 18:1-10aResponsorial Psalm Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5Reading 2 Colossians 1:24-28Alleluia Cf. Luke 8:15Gospel Luke 10:38-42
Homily: Sunday, July 20 by Saint Patrick Parish Homilies
Everything is Awesome! James 5:10-20; St. Matthew 9:1-8 (Riffing on St. Peter Chrysologus) Over the last few homilies, I have tried to share an approach to living that looks for the good, and the beautiful, and the true in all things so that we might have joy in them and nurture them towards greater glory. Today, I am going to continue this lesson by applying it to scripture. Of course, in this case we are not nurturing scripture to greater glory, but we always grow in our appreciation of its goodness, beauty, and truth so that those virtues might grow within us. Let's go through today's Gospel reading. This story starts out so mundanely, with Christ entering the boat, crossing the sea, and coming to his town. But even in, this there is something to learn, something that should leave us in awe. This is the God who has complete mastery over all the elements, over all of time and space. Why does he cross the sea in this way – surely the hosts of heaven, at the very least, could have born him to his destination? As St. Peter Chrysologus teaches us the way that he juxtaposes the material with the spiritual and the mundane with the glorious; Christ came to take up our infirmities, and to confer his own power upon us; to experience human things, to bestow divine ones; to accept insults, to return honors; to endure what is irksome, and to restore health, because a doctor who does not bear infirmities does not know how to cure; and the one who has not been a fellow patient is unable to confer health. To summarize St. Gregory of Nazianzus; that part of humanity that God did not accept or assume, cannot be saved. There were no shortcuts for our salvation. God became man and lived according to our infirmity (in everything but sin). Therefore, he endured these limitations so that he would be shown to be true man by these human limitations. Do you see how much beauty here? We go on to read that he entered the boat. He entered a boat? Sure you see where we are going with this! We know these truths, but do we ever slow down and just bask in their glory? What is the boat but the Church? Again, let's listen to St. Peter Chrysologus; Christ always enters the boat of his Church to calm the waves of the world, so that he might lead those who believe in him tranquilly across to his heavenly homeland, and make citizens of his own city those whom he made sharers in his humanity. Therefore, Christ does not need the ship, but the ship needs Christ, because without a Pilot from heaven the ship of the Church is unable to pass through the sea of the world amid so many grave perils and reach heaven's harbor. We have talked about the sea and the boat; what about his destination? How can we not be amazed that the Creator and Lord over all the cosmos, for the sake of our salvation; … began to have a human homeland, began to be a citizen of a Jewish town, and he himself the Parent of all parents began to have parents, in order that his love might invite, his charity attract, his affection bind, and his kindness persuade those whom his sovereign might had put to flight, dread had scattered, and the force of his power had made exiles. I cannot tell you how often I passed over these words as if they were filler between the really important things in the narrative. How often do we do this not just with scripture, but with life? Every moment, every detail of life is precious, brimming with meaning and potential. But we skip over this invitation to joy, to glory, because we are looking or waiting for greater things. My brothers and sisters, in a world that has been infused with the divine, everything is steeped in magnificence. And so, we finally get to the meat of the story; He came to his own town, and they brought him a paralytic lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, it says, he said to the paralytic: “Have confidence, son! Your sins are forgiven you” (vv. 1–2). While the point about God having the power to forgive sins, and Him choosing to exercise that power as man, as the new Adam, thus setting the scene for giving that power to us as the new humanity in Him; while all that may be obvious, or if not obvious, certainly provides the grist for most homilies on this passage…. There are details that we often pass over and that deserve our attention. Jesus saw their faith… Their faith… not the faith of the paralytic. St. Peter points out that the faith of the infirm is often unreliable – the mind of the infirm is often delirious – and so “he does not examine all the senseless desires of the infirm, but he comes to help thanks to someone else's faith, so that he may grant through grace alone, and not deny, whatever is of the divine will.” What a beautiful thing is the love of the Lord for all of us in our delirium! And, when we are thinking straight, and thus concerned more for the ill and infirm among us as ourselves – he brings his mercy and forgiveness to those we bring to him! Do you see how great this is? When we pray for others, it does not fall on deaf ears but on ears that are always ready to hear and respond. And who is more ill among us than the spiritually or even physically injured or dead? And yet He teaches us, through this example from His life and from the way His Spirit has guided our worship and prayer to pray for all, and most especially for those who cannot pray or act for themselves. Lord hear our prayer! And, just to make sure you appreciate the goodness evident here, take a moment to appreciate the paralysis and incapacitation of our own minds and thus appreciate why it is that the prayers of the prayers of the righteous avail so much! They bring our paralyzed souls into the presence of God and plead for our healing before Him. And to all this, the Pharisees responded: He blasphemes: for who can forgive sins except God alone? (v. 3) 6. And when Jesus had seen their thoughts, it says, he said to them: “Why do you think evil in your hearts? What is easier to say: your sins are forgiven you, or to say: stand up and walk? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic: “Stand up, pick up your bed, and go home.” And he stood up and went home (vv. 4–7). Pick up your bed, that is, “Carry what used to carry you, reverse the burden, so that what is a testimony to your infirmity may be a proof that you are healed; so that the bed of your pain may be evidence that I cured you; so that the amount of its weight may attest to the amount of strength you have regained.” Go home, to the place that you belong – our heart's true home. The place that is where we can grow in glory. The place that is for the believer – every single place, because every single place, like every single moment, is connected with the divine source of all beautiful, good, and true. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons of Saint Peter Chrysologus, ed. Thomas P. Halton, trans. William B. Palardy, vol. 2, The Fathers of the Church (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), 193–197.
The love of God on the cross - victory over pain sin and death, is given
Fr. Brian Barr's homily. July 20, 2025 - Beach CatholicWe're committed to bringing Christ into your home each weekend by providing Beach Catholic content online. To support our efforts, please consider donating to the Beach Catholic parishes through Online Giving: www.beachcatholic.com/giveIf you would like to receive text/email updates text: BEACHCATHOLIC to 84576
Msgr. Roger J. Landry St. Raphael’s Catholic Church, St. Petersburg, Florida Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi July 21, 2025 Ex 14:5-18, Ex 15, Mt 12:38-42 To listen to an audio recording of today's homily, please click below: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicpreaching/7.21.25_Homily_1.mp3 The following points were attempted […] The post Reading, Responding to, and Becoming Jesus’ Signs, 16th Monday (I), July 21, 2025 appeared first on Catholic Preaching.
Catholic homilies and Mass readings from St. Anne Roman Catholic Parish in Gilbert, Arizona
Catholic homilies and Mass readings from St. Anne Roman Catholic Parish in Gilbert, Arizona
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
21 July 2025
Fr. Larry Richards of The Reason For Our Hope Foundation Podcast
The interaction between Martha, Mary, and Jesus reminds us of the crucial need to maintain our daily prayer to keep Christ at the center of our lives. (Lectionary #108) July 19, 2025 - Cathedral of Christ the King - Superior, WI Fr. Andrew Ricci - www.studyprayserve.com
Homily by Fr. Luke Mary Fletcher, CFR.
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Mass Readings for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 20, 2025 Reading 1, Genesis 18:1-10 Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 Reading 2, Colossians 1:24-28 Gospel, Luke 10:38-42
Distractions. Ugh. Ever struggle with distractions? Let's find God ... in the distractions.Here's the link for today's notes: https://www.ourladyoftheisle.com/post/homily-july-20-2025
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Homily for the 15th Sunday of OT 2025
Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do it for the love of Jesus. We all have a lot to do. We may even be tempted to resent all that we have to do. But if we do it for the right reason, even the most difficult tasks take on new power and new purpose. Mass Readings from July 20, 2025: Genesis 18:1-10 Psalm 15:2-5Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42