Father Rick’s Two Minute Homily for Wednesday 3rd Week in Easter 2022 – 05-04-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050422.cfm NO BREAD, NO PIZZA. Every Wednesday during the school year, we celebrate Mass with our school children. I do my best to think of ways to communicate the day’s gospel to them. I struggled at my computer, trying to think of something that could help them relate to the theme, Jesus is the Bread […]
Wine and Cheese Reception hosted by the Ave Maria Guild
Join us after the 4:30 mass on Saturday May 14th in the Father James Gordon parish center to celebrate the month of Mary. We will be serving wine, cheese and some delicious finger foods. And it’s free! We will be raffling off some amazing prizes that includes gift cards, wine and spa packages. Raffle tickets […]
Father Rick’s Three Minute Homily for Feast of Saints Phillip and James Apostles. 2022– 05-03-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050322.cfm A LINK TO JESUS. Standing at the altar, I see so many people I have gotten to know personally. They all have a faith story. Some stories are strong in faith. Others have their rough edges, and some have come back home, like the Prodigal Son. Yet, a common thread through all these stories […]
Father Rick’s Three Minute Homily for Monday 3rd Week in Easter 2022 – 05-02-2022
SEALED IN JESUS – A WORK OF GOD. Every parish is given a seal, a heavy, iron stamp that marks a document forever. We use it for sacramental records we send to people or keep in our vault. But, of course, our seal at Blessed Sacrament Church has our name on it. You can feel […]
Father Rick’s Two Minute Homily for the Third Sunday in Easter 2022 – 05-01-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042222.cfm KNUCKLEHEAD. I used to watch a slapstick comedy growing up called the Three Stooges. A common phrase they would call each other was a knucklehead when one of them did something silly. It’s like, you just don’t get it, do you? I am sure Jesus didn’t call any of His disciples “a knucklehead.” This […]
Father Rick’s Two Minute Homily for Saturday 2nd Week in Easter 2022 – 04-30-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/043022.cfm STRUGGLING ALONE IS NO FUN. Here are the disciples in a boat taking on water and being violently tossed around by the wind. I’d be scared, but the gospel says they weren’t afraid until “they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat.” Maybe they weren’t scared because they were experienced fishermen. Remember, they were […]
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Father Rick’s Two Minute Homily for Friday 2nd Week in Easter 2022 – 04-22-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042922.cfm AS MUCH AS THEY WANTED. In Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bradenton, Florida, I witnessed today’s gospel when Jesus fed thousands of people with so little, some barley loaves and a few fish. “Our Daily Bread,” run by the parish, fed people on 14th Street every day between 11 am and 1 pm. It […]
Father Rick’s Three Minute Homily for Thursday – 04-27-2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042822.cfm WRATH OF GOD – A GREAT GIFT. I saw a man on the news today in his mid-thirties. He was caught on camera stealing from a store during the riots in 2020. He said he went there peacefully but followed a leader who pillaged two stores. He had a wrap sheet. But something happened […]
Father Rick’s Three Minute Homily for Wednesday – 04-26-2022 Wednesday 2nd Week in Easter 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042722.cfm EVERYONE. The word “everyone” caught my attention immediately when I read the first line of the gospel today. Then I thought of people I would be meeting today. Some of those encounters will be enjoyable, and some will be challenging in one way or another. I wasn’t done bringing to mind people I would […]