Category: Sunday Masses
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026 (Year A)
(Give at the 8:30 and 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) Just as Moses went up Mount Sinai to receive the Law from God, now Jesus goes up the mountain to proclaim the Beatitudes. Moses brought the Ten Commandments down to the people; Jesus invites the people upward to hear…
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4th Sunday of Advent (Year A) 2025 *Youth
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) Feeling unworthy of a calling is a real thing. I remember my second to last year in seminary, going to my formation director, and expressing feeling completely unworthy to be ordained. He told me this was normal, and guess what?…
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4th Sunday of Advent (Year A) 2025
(Given at the 10:30 am Sunday Mass at OLP) When we take a closer look at our gospel passage, we may come away confused. Were Mary and Joseph married at the visit of the angel, Gabriel? Why is Joseph referred to as Mary’s husband in one verse, but then is…
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3rd Sunday of Advent (Year A) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 and 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) According to Jesus, there is no one greater born to a woman that John the Baptist. These are strong words. As we know from Scripture and Tradition, John was the last Old Covenant prophet, and he had the privilege…
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The Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran 2025
(Given at the 4:30 pm Saturday Mass and the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) What’s the pope’s church in Rome? Many of you, like myself in the past, would probably say St. Peter’s Basilica. It’s massive, and it’s the center of the Vatican. It even holds the bones…
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass at OLP) We need to stop comparing ourselves to others. According to Father Samuel Keyes, this is what Jesus is saying in our gospel passage this evening. The Pharisee prays this way explicitly, but maybe when we heard the passage, we thought,…
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 am and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) Some might look at Moses’ lifting up his hands in our first reading as superstitious. When he dropped his hands, the Israelites were losing; when he kept them up, the Israelites were winning. They didn’t think it…
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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2025
(Given at the 4:30 pm Saturday Mass and the 5:30 pm Sunday youth Mass) (Reader Discretion Advised) Imagine walking into a building of a brand new religion. You enter the doors, walk up the aisle, and see at the forefront of the back wall an image of a man hanging…
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) I love our second reading from St. Paul this morning. He starts by asking his listeners to pray for everyone, and especially those in authority. Today, this includes politicians we may not agree with, even priests we may…
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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
(Given at the 8:30 am and the 10:30 am Sunday Masses at OLP) Mustard seeds are small. I have one in a vial, and man it’s tiny. Like a grain of sand. And yet, from this small seed comes a robust and hefty bush. The Lord’s analogy of the mustard…