Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cure of the Ten Lepers
In our gospel, we read of ten lepers who come to Jesus for a cure. We have little concept today of what it meant to be a leper at the time of Jesus. Worse than the disease was the leper's fate; cut off from family, forced to live a wretched life alone, begging for food.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Faith Can Move Mountains
In our gospel today the twelve apostles make an excellent request of Jesus; increase our faith. Jesus does not respond directly to their request, He puts the apostles on the spot. The point of importance, He says, is not how much faith you have, its size, its amount. What is important is the kind of faith you have, it has to be genuine.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Many people used to come to Mother Teresa. They wanted to get involved in her work. Mother Teresa being a wise woman could tell if they had what it took to work with her sisters.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Unjust Servant
When we read the Gospel of Luke 16: 1-13, we hear about an employee who cheats on his employer.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus lived in a society where caste lines were sharply drawn. It was clearly understood that people stayed with their own kind. Good people did not mix and mingle with bad people.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
In Luke 14:25-33 we read that large crowds were coming to Jesus. The movement He started with a dozen men was swelling with converts. How pleased the disciples must have been.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Do Not Take The Seat of Honor
Our gospel today is the third instance in which Luke tells us that Jesus ate with the Pharisees. It must have been an unusual event. Luke says that they watched him closely. However, it seems that Jesus was also observing them. He gently teases the other guests about what he had observed.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – The Narrow Door of Commitment
Discipline is a bad word, none of us really like it; it conjures up something arduous and painful. To choose a life of discipline is to choose the narrow way.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
It is always a temptation to preach the Gospel of Jesus in a selective manner.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
There is a novel called The Man Who Lost Himself; in one scene the main character of the story trails a man to Paris.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
One day long ago, someone interrupted Jesus with a question any of us might find ourselves asking. Parents had died and there is an estate to settle.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In Eugene O’Neill’s play, “The Great God Brown,” we see a man on his deathbed and he is frightened.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In some ways, this Martha and Mary story can be annoying to many of us. You do not want to be seen as too much like Martha; ignoring the guest or like passive Mary.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We hear about a famous road in today’s gospel, the road to Jericho. The road from Jerusalem to Jericho was a favorite haunt for robbers and outlaws.
Fr. Bob’s Homily – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the first reading, Isaiah tells us in graphic language what Jerusalem meant to the Jews. It was the center of worship, the center of their lives.