Monday 12th Week in Ordinary Time June 26, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Monday 12th Week in Ordinary Time June 26, 2023, Matthew 7:1-5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062623.cfm Judging is Like Little Splinters. I remember our DRE and music director, Fred, telling me he picked up something with splinters working in the yard. There were small ones he couldn’t get out, and the doctor told him […]
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A June 25, 2023
Fr. Rick’s Three-Minute Homily for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A June 25, 2023, Matthew 10:26-33 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062523.cfm What Is It Worth? Teachers and coaches bear an innate quality that wants to help others succeed. I have taught people who wish to become Catholic over the years. There have been a couple of occasions when […]
Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist June 24, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist June 24, 2023, Luke 1: 57-66, 80 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062423-Day.cfm I Love It When a Plan Comes Together The A-Team’s television show was a mixture of drama and comedy in the early 1980s. George Peppard played the character Col. John Hannibal Smith. It […]
Friday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 23, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Friday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 23, 2023, Matthew 6:19-23 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062223.cfm My Eye and My Treasure When I line up a shot to hit a golf ball, I pick out the smallest target I can find in the distance. I am close to hitting that target nine times out […]
Thursday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 22, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Thursday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 22, 2023, Matthew 6:1-6,7-15 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062223.cfm Our Father – Love of God and His Children A son asks his father, “Dad, can I have money to go to the movie with my friends?” “Dad gives his son some money for the movies. A couple […]
Wednesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 21, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Wednesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 21, 2023, Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062123.cfm Intention Is Everything I have always wanted to be a diocesan priest in the Diocese of Peoria. However, this desire changed when I started praying the Maxims of Christian Perfection by Blessed Antonio Rosmini. The first maxim is […]
Tuesday 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 20, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Tuesday 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 20, 2023, Matthew 5:43-48 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062023.cfm Mercy Found – Thanks St. Anthony One day my sister Bev and I were walking. She had a bag in her hand with an envelope, a piece of paper, and her billfold. She stuck her hand in the […]
Monday 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 19, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Monday 11th Week in Ordinary Time June 19, 2023, Matthew 5:38-42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061923.cfm Keeping Your Honor Honor is something we always want to keep. But, when we do, we lose touch with the core of who we are as children of God. We react rather than respond to others, especially if […]
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time A June 18, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time A June 18, 2023, Matthew 9:36-10:8 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061823.cfm There Is so Much to Do; I Need Help Have you ever had those days when there was so much to do you wished you were two or three, or four people? Wouldn’t that be great to divide […]
Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary June 17, 2023
Father Rick’s Two-Minute Homily for Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary June 17, 2023, Luke 2:41-51 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061723.cfm Pondering Leads to Trust The last line of the gospel speaks volumes, “Mary kept all these things in her heart.” It certainly was not a bed of roses for Mother Mary to be the […]