Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-10-2021
Friday of the Second Week in Advent. Matthew 11: 16- 19 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121021.cfm “WE played the flute for you. WE sang a dirge for you.” Who is playing? Who is singing about our life? As the years go by, I am learning how much God is involved in our lives. The pronoun “We” caught my attention in […]
Fr. Rick’s Two Minute Homily -12-09-2021
Thursday of the Second Week in Advent. Matthew 11: 11- 15 VIOLENCE – IS THERE ANOTHER WAY? Wouldn’t you say that most people in America wonder when the violence will end? Or, at least slow down a bit. The news is full of it. Jesus even says, “From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-07-2021
Wednesday, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Luke 18:12-14 “I AM the handmaid of the Lord.” Sports have always been a part of my life. I remember going to St. Mary’s School diamond every night growing up. The neighborhood kids, 15 or so, would pick teams and start our game. I […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-07-2021
LOST AND STUCK In my first assignment in Galesburg, IL, I was chaplain of the city and county police departments. I road most nights with them. I noticed so many children walking the streets at night, wandering around like they were lost. And they were. For a variety of reasons, these children were runaways. These kids road […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-06-2021
Monday 2nd Week of Advent Luke 5:17-26 INTERRUPTIONS – ARE THEY REALLY A NUISANCE? Paradise. Imagine for a moment having several projects you wish to accomplish. They all were completed with no interruptions at the end of the day. Wouldn’t that be a little bit of paradise? Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily 12-04-2021
Matthew 9:27-35; 10:1; 5a, 6-8 ONE SHEEP AT A TIME. THAT’S ALL I CAN CARRY Some days I wonder, ‘How in the world am I going to get through all of that needs to be done. Where do I start? And someone walks into the office who needs to see a priest. God bless them […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-03-2021
Friday 1st Week of Advent Matthew 9:27-31 JESUS CURED TWO BLIND MEN – MIRACLES STILL HAPPEN A true Story – When I came home from the hospital after my ankle replacement surgery 5 weeks ago, I couldn’t find my vaccination card. I received both shots and a booster. I looked through the hospital folders and overnight bag […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily -12-02-2021
Thursday 1st Week of Advent Matthew 7:21, 24-27 NEVER SATISFIED. That is Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He is never satisfied. If you listen to his news conferences after a win, he will acknowledge different players and plays that went well. But at the end, he always says in one way or […]
Fr. Rick’s One Minute Homily – 12-01-2021
Wednesday 1st Week of Advent NEVER HUNGER. HOW IS THAT? A local restaurant donated turkeys for our parishioners to feed all the people in Pinellas Hope on Thanksgiving Day. Somewhere around 150 people. Every night on the local newscasts you see churches and organizations collecting food and giving it to families, especially during the Christmas […]
September 11, 2021, Saturday 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
Heaven help us all The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon happened 20 years ago today. We still carry the memory of that awful day, and we continue to remember in our prayers the victims of the attack and their families and loved ones who continue to mourn their great loss. We […]