Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fourth Sunday of Lent – The Man Born Blind
Perhaps none is us should take T.V. commercials too seriously. But there is one type of person that should absolutely stay away from them.
Fourth Week of Lent – No Greater Love
One fact rings loud and clear from Calvary: where God's love is concerned, we mortals are ignorant and very uncomprehending.
Fr. Bob’s Greeting – April 2023 Enews
During Holy Week and, especially, during Good Friday, our minds focus on the cross. It appeared that Jesus had been ultimately, finally and forever defeated. But the church has refused to see it that way. We call His death a victory and have adopted the cross as our symbol. We Christians have a strange vocabulary.
Some of us become overwhelmed by life’s contradictions. The pain and injustice that they see on every side cause them to lose all faith in God and in life. That could have happened to Jesus. No one ever felt the world’s great agony more deeply than He did. When people were cold or hungry, or sick or in pain, He experienced their pain as if it was His very own.
And no one was ever treated more unfairly than He was. You want to talk about injustice, look at Calvary. You want to talk about human suffering, look at Calvary. You want to see religious hypocrisy and political corruption at their very worst, look at Calvary. You want to wonder where God is and why He does not do something, look at Calvary…
If there was a person who had the right to doubt God and to despair of the human race and to become cynical about life, that person was Jesus. But listen to Him as He says to God—Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.
Without striking a blow, He has conquered more hearts and changed more minds than Caesar’s soldiers ever dreamed. Jesus showed us that the cross really is a symbol of victory. Love is stronger than hate; faith really is more valid than cynicism. Non-violence really is more powerful than brute force…
The question for us is—do we dare to believe it? Do we dare to try it?
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Third Sunday of Lent
At a mental health facility near here sits a small woman at a small table. She is trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle. She is extremely tense.
Third Week of Lent – Focus on the Cross
The preface for the Mass at the start of Lent refers to this “Joyful Season.”
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Second Sunday of Lent – A Transfiguration
There is so much contained in our gospel today we could spend the whole day discussing it. So I would like to concentrate on a single word spoken by God the Father to Peter, James and John
Second Week of Lent – God’s Plans for Us
During Lent, if we forget everything else in our relationship with God, we need to remember that we are called into an unbreakable covenant with the Divine.
Graymoor Founder Father Paul Wattson, SA, Profiled in Messenger of St. Anthony
Did you know that Father Paul’s work wasn’t limited to the Holy Mountain, and that he cared for the poor in other countries? Did you know that he helped launch the Catholic Medical Mission Board?
1902-Present: The Union that Nothing Be Lost, Father Paul, and Supporting Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria
Thousands of people have lost their lives following a series of devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. More than 47,000 have been killed, with countless more reportedly trapped, injured, and displaced.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – First Sunday of Lent
In any culture, literature reflects a peoples’ story and experience. Writers and playwrights often reveal things about ourselves that we never suspected. They open our eyes with insights about the human condition.