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Be Thou My VisionChrist Is Victor: The Scripture Fulfilled TodayIn this episode Jesus' reading of Isaiah is presented as a living proclamation: the victory over sin, death, and fear is already won and is fulfilled whenever we encounter Christ in Scripture and sacrament.
Rather than being paralyzed by distant anxieties, we are called to love and serve the people and responsibilities right before us, letting the gospel take root in daily actions to bring freedom, healing, and hope.
2026-02-1606 minBe Thou My VisionFive Loaves, Two Fish: When Small Gifts Change the WorldIn this episode we hear the Gospel from Mark about Jesus feeding 5,000 with five loaves and two fish, moved by compassion for the crowd. He multiplies the small offering to satisfy the need, leaving twelve baskets of leftovers.
The reflection explores how God uses our humble gifts—confession, acts of service, forgiveness—and makes them enough. We are encouraged to trust God, offer what we have, and let Christ transform our small efforts into abundant grace.
2026-01-0709 min
Be Thou My VisionThe light shines in the darknessThis holily reflects on the liturgical year and the unchanging Christ, contrasting the power of light with the weakness of darkness and warning against living in fear.
It invites listeners to turn to Christ, receive and share the light, and live confidently because the story ends in love, victory, and the triumph of light over darkness.
2026-01-0708 minBe Thou My VisionFear Not: Isaiah’s Call of ComfortIn this homily the speaker reflects on Isaiah’s comforting call—“Fear not”—and reminds listeners that Israel’s redemption comes from God’s name, power, and love rather than human achievement. Using everyday examples, he challenges the culture of measuring worth by success or income and emphasizes that our value comes from being made and loved by God.
In the season of Advent he urges listeners to let go of the need to earn love, practice forgiveness, and follow God’s ways out of love, not obligation. The core message: you are worthy because you are loved, not the o...
2025-12-1206 minBe Thou My VisionFind Rest in the Unfailing Strength of ChristIn this homily we are reminded that Christ is the source of all strength, love, and renewal. We are invited to lay our anxieties, griefs, and sins at the foot of the cross and receive rest.
The homily explores reconciliation with God as a close, life-giving union, and encourages humility and trust in God’s unsearchable care so we may walk renewed and not grow weary.
2025-12-1207 minBe Thou My VisionGrass Withers, God’s Word Endures — Forgiveness for the WanderingThis homily reflects on Isaiah's call to 'comfort my people' and contrasts the transience of human life—"all flesh is grass"—with the enduring word and will of God. It explains how God's promise brings true comfort because sins and failures do not last.
Using the parable of the lost sheep, the episode highlights God's relentless mercy that seeks and restores the one who is lost, and celebrates the joy of repentance and the assurance of forgiveness through Christ and the sacrament of confession.
2025-12-1205 minBe Thou My VisionBefore Time Was Time: The Immaculate Conception ExplainedThis homily explains the Immaculate Conception—distinct from the Virgin Birth—and how Mary was conceived without original sin by the saving power of Christ, who remains her Savior.
It also explores God’s timeless nature, how salvation was planned before time began, and calls listeners to prayer and to respond with a faithful "yes" as Mary did.
2025-12-1208 minBe Thou My VisionFrom Anxiety to Assurance: Grounding Life in Faith, Hope, and LoveIn this homily Father Jon contrasts John the Baptist’s bold, direct preaching with our tendency toward anxiety and distraction. Using the image of the winnowing fork and Isaiah’s vision of a righteous mountain, the message urges listeners to examine their time, money, and worries, to let passing concerns blow away, and to root life in faith, hope, and love.
2025-12-1210 minBe Thou My VisionWatchful Waiting: Anchoring Your Advent in ChristSeeing, knowing, remembering, and doing. Advent calls us to see and hear what God asks of us: to wait, watch, and keep alert for the Lord.
This homily highlights seasonal distractions and invites intentional practices—five minutes of daily watchful prayer, listening to Scripture, and singing hymns—to train our hearts to notice Christ.
Remember God’s words so you can act on them: give out of love, receive the sacraments, and let Scripture and hymnody shape your responses to fear and need.
Build your life on Christ, the solid rock; let Advent be a t...
2025-12-1207 minBe Thou My VisionFrom Five Loaves to Abundance: A Lesson in TrustAfter three days in the wilderness with a hungry crowd, Jesus responds in compassion by multiplying a few loaves and fishes into more than enough—leaving seven baskets of leftovers. The Homily explores this miracle, its Eucharistic significance, and how faithful obedience and trust transform what seems insufficient into abundance.
Listeners are encouraged to bring their broken pieces to Christ, to allow the Eucharist to feed and multiply grace in their lives, and to share that abundance with others through acts of compassion and service.
2025-12-1206 minBe Thou My VisionBlessed to See: Living in the Time of the ChurchThis homily reflects on the extraordinary privileges of living after Christ's resurrection: access to Scripture, the sacraments, and daily Mass. It emphasizes the danger of taking these gifts for granted and calls listeners to recognize the Mass as the central, transformative encounter with Jesus.
The host highlights how prophets and kings longed for what we now experience, urging gratitude and attentiveness to the sacraments, and ends with a hopeful call for Christ's return.
2025-12-1205 minBe Thou My VisionMaranatha: Preparing for Christ’s ComingThis episode is an Advent sermon urging urgent spiritual readiness as the Church anticipates Christ’s return. The speaker contrasts popular ‘‘taken’’ interpretations with the biblical hope that Christ comes to set the world right and establish peace.
Using Isaiah’s image of turning swords into plowshares, references to church leaders praying for unity and peace, and the lighting of the Advent wreath, the message calls listeners to be purified by God’s love and reshaped for life so that they may greet the Lord without fear.
2025-11-3008 minBe Thou My VisionFrom Trinity Tide to Advent: Grace, Judgment, and HopeThis homily reflects on the liturgical transition from the season after Pentecost into Advent, emphasizing Advent’s two comings: Christ’s birth and his final coming in judgment.
It acknowledges human fallibility and fear before the final judgment, yet points to hope in Christ’s cross as the source of mercy and salvation, encouraging prayer for the living and the dead and a joyful, transformed awaiting of the Lord.
2025-11-2907 minBe Thou My VisionAll Hail Christ the King — From Darkness to LightThis homily reflects on Christ the King, explaining that the faithful have been delivered from the dominion of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of Jesus. It contrasts eternal kingship with transient worldly concerns and warns against being consumed by politics and anxiety.
The speaker urges listeners to work for justice and mercy while keeping their focus on Christ, celebrating his reign and the hope it brings as the true and lasting King.
2025-11-2405 minBe Thou My VisionWalking on Water: Faith at the Dedication of Sts. Peter and PaulThis homily reflects on the dedication of the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul and how sacred space and the lives of the apostles point believers toward God.
Using the stories of Peter and Paul, it explores faith amid life’s storms, the sustaining power of the Eucharist, and the call for each person to trust God’s purpose.
2025-11-1906 minBe Thou My VisionWhole and Integrated: Love, Conversion, and the Call to ServeThis homily explores the cost and calling of living as Catholics who don’t fit earthly systems—facing opposition, trusting God instead of planning every answer, and placing love at the center of action.
It speaks about judgment as a healing fire, bringing wounds to God and to community for restoration, rejecting the division of deserving vs. undeserving, and being agents of God’s grace even when it makes us unpopular.
2025-11-1912 minBe Thou My VisionFrom the Pierced Side: Drinking the Living WaterThis Homily reflects on the image of a river flowing from the temple—Jesus’ pierced side—and describes the Eucharist as the living water that cleanses, heals, and brings life to a broken world. It explores how grace flows from Christ to the Church and into our daily relationships and struggles.
Celebrating the dedication of the Lateran Basilica, the message invites listeners to receive that healing grace deeply and then go out to let it transform families, workplaces, and communities.
2025-11-0910 minBe Thou My VisionFrom Temple to River: Christ's Mercy Flowing into the WorldA homily reflecting on the Lateran Basilica dedication and the image of Ezekiel’s river flowing from the temple — now fulfilled in Christ, the true temple. What begins as a small trickle of mercy from the side of Jesus grows into a life-changing flood that purifies and renews.
Believers are urged to receive that grace in worship and take it into a world that is dry and divided, letting forgiveness, beauty, and love transform ordinary spaces and relationships.
2025-11-0810 minBe Thou My VisionCharles Borromeo: The Reforming Shepherd of TrentSt. Charles Borromeo was a tireless reformer who implemented the Council of Trent’s changes, founded seminaries, and fought abuses like the sale of church offices.
He loved his people as a shepherd, faced violent opposition, and worked for the renewal of the Church out of faith and charity.
2025-11-0705 minBe Thou My VisionPrayers for the Dead: Mass, Mercy, and the Communion of SaintsThis Homily reflects on the human experience of grief and the conviction that we are made for more than death, showing how our hearts long for immortality and enduring love. It explores human frailty, the danger of pride, and the universal need for God’s mercy.
The sermon leads listeners to the cross of Christ as the source of salvation, highlights the meaning of the Mass and sacraments, and calls the faithful to offer prayers for those who have died—reminding us of the communion of saints and the hope found in God’s mercy.
2025-11-0710 minBe Thou My VisionPrayers, the Eucharist, and the Communion of SaintsPurgatory is often misunderstood as a lesser hell, but it is better understood as a merciful process by which souls are purified and made whole. The Homily explains this using everyday images and C.S. Lewis’s analogy to show that God’s love heals and prepares us for full communion with Him.
It also emphasizes the role of the Church, the Mass, and our prayers—how they participate in God’s loving work to lift and unite souls—offering comfort and hope that one day we will be completely ourselves in God’s presence.
2025-11-0707 minBe Thou My VisionSurrounded by Saints: We Never Fight AloneThis homily reflects on the vast, uncountable company of saints who support and pray for us, reminding listeners that we never face spiritual struggles alone.
Grounded in the Eucharist and the witness of martyrs, it encourages perseverance through love, sacrifice, and the sustaining grace of Christ.
2025-11-0705 minBe Thou My VisionSent to Proclaim: The Witness of Simon and JudeThis homily reflects on the calling and mission of the apostles, especially Simon and Jude, chosen after prayer to be sent to proclaim the resurrection of Christ. It emphasizes their witness, the power of Pentecost, and their willingness to suffer for the truth of the risen Lord.
It also connects that mission to the Eucharist and challenges listeners to be sent into the world to share the gospel of hope and life with all peoples.
2025-10-2906 minBe Thou My VisionRequiem and Betrothal: The Wedding Feast of the LambToday’s homily joins a requiem mass with the rite of betrothal, reflecting on Christ’s love that binds the church and the faithful. Using the Dies Irae and gospel imagery, the speaker draws a nuptial analogy: our life on earth as the time between covenant and the final wedding feast of the Lamb, with Christ as the way to eternal union.
2025-10-2905 minBe Thou My VisionObedience, Grace, and the New Heart in ChristAs Catholics, we are body and soul—one person—and our everyday choices matter. This homily explores how small compromises in caring for our bodies and hearts can become habits that lead away from God, and why obedience and stewardship of the body are essential. It emphasizes the need for God's grace, mutual support, and surrender to Christ so our passions and life align with his.
2025-10-2904 min
Be Thou My VisionWhen the Master Waits: The Surprising Reversal of SacrificeThis homily explores a parable with an unexpected reversal: after being told to "gird your loins" and be ready for action, the master instead waits on the servants. The speaker explains how true sacrifice to God differs from sacrifices to false idols—what we give to God is transformed and returned to us as grace.
Using liturgical imagery and clear examples, the episode shows that offering our lives and gifts to God leads not to loss but to receiving life and blessing, because God gives back what we place in his hands.
2025-10-2205 minBe Thou My VisionPrayer That Changes the World: Never Grow WearyThis homily explores prayer as a powerful, active means by which God changes us and the world. Using examples like St. Monica, St. Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa, the speaker shows how persistent prayer transforms hearts, supports the church, and fuels faithful action.
Listeners are encouraged to see prayer as participation in the divine life, inspired by the Holy Spirit and united to Christ, and to pray always without losing heart because every prayer matters.
2025-10-2210 minBe Thou My VisionPruned to Bear FruitToday's readings give a clear image: Christ is the vine and we are the branches. Saint Teresa lived this reality, completely connected to Jesus so that his life flowed through her.
When we stay attached to God through prayer, the sacraments, and humility, life functions better and we bear fruit. God prunes us—often through hardship—not to punish us but to remove pride and self-interest so humility, love, and peace can grow.
If we unite our difficulties to Christ, suffering becomes a source of grace and resurrection, producing more fruit rather than separation from the...
2025-10-1605 minBe Thou My Vision(SFA) Give Alms, See God: Charity and CreationThis episode reflects on two readings that link almsgiving and the recognition of God in creation and in the poor. It explores St. Paul’s argument that creation reveals God’s power, the recurring call to see Christ in those in need, and how willful ignorance keeps us from responding.
Listeners are urged to choose the eternal over the temporary by attending to God’s work in the world and in others, to give generously, and to find nourishment in feeding and being fed.
2025-10-1506 minBe Thou My VisionThe Word Is Not Chained: Freedom in SufferingIn this Homily, the Father reflects on St. Paul's declaration that "the word of God is not chained," showing how believers can find freedom amid suffering through thanksgiving and praise. Using biblical examples and saints' stories, he teaches that offering our brokenness to Christ joins it to his sacrifice and transforms it into means of grace.
Whether facing grief, hardship, or daily struggles, the message invites listeners to cultivate hearts tuned to God through thanksgiving, trusting that present trials do not define us and that redemption and renewal are sure in Christ's return.
2025-10-1310 minBe Thou My VisionFrom Healing to Love: Gratitude, Eucharist, and GivingThis homily reflects on the Gospel of the ten lepers—ten were healed but only one returned to give thanks—and explains how thanksgiving is central to the Christian life, ordering the heart toward God rather than earthly things.
It highlights the Eucharist as the church’s great act of thanksgiving and connects gratitude to true almsgiving and the Catholic Services Appeal, encouraging listeners to give joyfully and see every blessing as a call to mercy and service.
2025-10-1310 minBe Thou My VisionGo Forth and Preach: The Simplicity of St. FrancisThis homily reflects on St. Francis of Assisi's radical simplicity, childlike trust in God, and practical examples of living the Gospel without fear or excess.
Through personal stories and scripture, it invites listeners to declutter their hearts, trust God's providence, and follow Christ with humble, joyful obedience.
2025-10-1207 minBe Thou My VisionUncomplicated: St. Francis and the Art of TrustThis homily explores St. Francis of Assisi’s radical simplicity and trust in God through stories of poverty, charity, and miraculous provision.
Drawing on personal anecdotes and Scripture, it invites listeners to let go of worries, simplify their lives, and follow with childlike faith.
2025-10-1209 minBe Thou My VisionWhen Water Becomes Wine: Trusting Mary's IntercessionToday’s homily reflects on a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Francis’s love for her, and the Gospel of Cana. It emphasizes Mary’s intercession, our constant need to pray and rely on God through life’s struggles, and how God transforms our humble needs into greater grace when we follow her guidance.
2025-10-0507 minBe Thou My VisionYou're Never Alone: Angels, the Cross, and the Call to Humble TrustThis homily reflects on the Feast of St. Therese and the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, exploring how childlike trust in God coexists with the powerful, otherworldly ministry of angels.
It examines common misconceptions about angels, describes their role in guiding and strengthening us toward salvation, and calls listeners to cooperate with their guardian angels in prayer, good works, and humble trust in God’s love.
2025-10-0510 minBe Thou My VisionThe Little Way: How St. Thérèse Teaches True GreatnessToday we celebrate St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who showed that true greatness comes from childlike faith and doing small things with great love. Living quietly in a Carmelite monastery, she discovered and taught the "little way" — a simple, accessible path to holiness grounded in trust and love.
This Homily contrasts worldly ideas of power with Christ's call to humble service, explains the difference between childlikeness and childishness, and encourages listeners to live out their faith through ordinary acts of kindness and devotion.
2025-10-0507 minBe Thou My VisionFearless Warriors of Heaven: Finding Courage in the Angelic HostHomily reflects on the unseen world of angels and saints who attend the liturgy and protect believers.
He challenges selective superstition, shares personal and biblical stories—like his father’s anecdote and the prophet Elisha’s vision—to show how angels defend and strengthen us in life’s battles.
The homily ends with gratitude for the ministry of the holy angels and a prayer invoking Archangels Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel.
2025-10-0507 min
Be Thou My VisionIf you have done it for the least of these...This homily explores how wealth and comfort can blind us to the needs of others, using the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to call listeners to recognize Christ in the poor and vulnerable.
It urges practical acts of mercy and almsgiving as responses to God’s generous love, reminding us that the same Christ in the Eucharist is present in those who need our help.
2025-09-2811 minBe Thou My VisionSeek First the KingdomDrawing on the prophet Haggai and Jesus' call to 'seek first the kingdom,' this homily contrasts attempts to put God last—'once I get my life in order'—with the call to rebuild the house of the Lord and the heart now.
Father Jon warns that without God at the center nothing truly satisfies, and urges daily prayer and thanksgiving as the foundation of life. Giving God our whole selves leads to deeper provision and peace.
In the context of receiving Christ in the Eucharist, the episode invites listeners to make faith the priority so e...
2025-09-2604 min
Be Thou My VisionOur Lady of Walsingham: From Ruins to ResurrectionThis homily recounts the story of Our Lady of Walsingham: a shrine built to bring the peace of the Holy House of Nazareth to England, later destroyed, and now rebuilt and renewed as a place of pilgrimage and devotion.
It reflects on the Holy Family's trust, the endurance of Catholic witness in England, and invites listeners to seek Our Lady's intercession for peace in their homes and lives.
2025-09-2507 minBe Thou My VisionFrom the Fall to the Cross: A New Family Forged in LoveThis homily reflects on humanity's fall from the "first tree" and how sin brought division and suffering, contrasted with God's answer in Jesus Christ on the cross.
It explores Mary and John at the cross, the healing power of Christ's blood, and baptism as the sacrament that brings a child into the family of faith.
The message urges listeners to bear one another's burdens, live in Christian unity, and witness God's love and lasting joy amid sorrow.
2025-09-2411 minBe Thou My VisionCling to the Cross: Humility, Contentment, and the Call to GodlinessJesus travels through towns and villages preaching the kingdom, accompanied by the Twelve and several healed women who support his ministry.
Paul’s letter to Timothy warns against pride, controversy, and greed, and urges righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and contentment while embracing the cross and awaiting the resurrection.
2025-09-2010 minBe Thou My VisionHe who is forgiven much, loves much.A reading from Luke tells of a sinful woman who anoints Jesus' feet with her tears and ointment, while a Pharisee judges her outwardly.
Jesus teaches that those forgiven much love much, pronounces her sins forgiven, and calls sinners to faith and peace.
The homily reflects on approaching God with humility as the "greatest of sinners," receiving mercy, and responding with gratitude and love rather than lingering in shame.
2025-09-1912 minBe Thou My VisionTreasure in Earthen Vessels: A Call to Courage and PrayerOn the feast of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, a homily reflects on John’s Gospel where Jesus prays for his disciples, asking God to protect them in the world while keeping them from evil. The speaker urges prayer and mercy for seminarians and priests, reminding listeners that they carry the precious treasure of the Gospel in imperfect, 'earthen' vessels.
We are called to witness, even amid opposition and trial; true protection preserves our souls and strengthens us for mission. The talk encourages parents and the faithful to pray for those in formation and to embrace the call to...
2025-09-1911 min
Be Thou My VisionOLSJ: Costly Love Over Anger: Healing Division Through the CrossOn the Feast of the Holy Cross, this sermon reflects on Christ’s victory over sin, death, and division through his sacrificial love. It contrasts our modern echo chambers and divisions with the Church’s call to unity as shown on the cross.
Fr. Erdman urges practical responses: pray more than you post, love even your enemies, listen and steel‑man opposing views, and gather at the altar as the place God gives for healing and communion.
2025-09-1515 min
Be Thou My VisionSFA: The Cross That Heals: Love for a Divided WorldThis homily explains that Christ died to draw all people to himself and to bring unity, not condemnation. It calls listeners to sacrificial love, patient listening, and forgiveness as the path to healing personal, political, and global divisions.
Using the parish as an example, the speaker urges Christians to practice reconciliation in small daily acts so the Church can shine as a beacon of peace and restore the world one person and one family at a time.
2025-09-1419 minBe Thou My VisionMary’s Yes: The Culmination of Long PreparationThis episode explores Matthew's genealogy, showing why surprising and scandalous names are included and how God works through flawed people to prepare for Christ.
It highlights the unique role of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the promise of redemption through Christ, and encourages listeners that God prepares and calls each of us, even through brokenness.
2025-09-1409 minBe Thou My VisionAbel’s Blood to Christ’s Mercy: Choosing the City of GodThis sermon contrasts the city of this world—marked by fear, pride, and the crying blood of Abel—with the city of God, which offers peace, humility, and the healing blood of Christ. It urges humility, prayer joined with action, and listening to one another as the way to respond to violence and suffering.
Listeners are invited to approach Mount Zion, live as emissaries of God’s love, and practice small acts of mercy and prayer that together work toward healing and hope.
2025-09-0918 minBe Thou My VisionHow God Made a Way for ChristThis homily unpacks Matthew's genealogy, showing how Joseph's line and unexpected figures like Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba reveal God's work through brokenness and scandal to prepare for Christ.
Listeners are invited to see their own lives as part of that redemptive story and to respond in faith, hope, and love, trusting in the prayers of the saints and Mary’s motherly care.
2025-09-0909 minBe Thou My VisionSFA: The Cross, Discipleship, Sacrifice, and True LifeFr. Jon explains how the cross is the model for marriage, parenthood, friendship, and discipleship, and interprets Jesus' tough words about "hating" family as a call to put God first.
He warns against false self-love and making people into our ultimate source, urges sacrificial discipleship that frees us to receive God’s grace, and reminds us that after the cross comes resurrection.
2025-09-0812 minBe Thou My VisionOLSJ: The Cross First: When Love Means Putting God Above AllThis Sermon uses the crucifix as the model for marriage and explains that Christian love is a total self-gift—costly, sacrificial, and rooted in putting God first.
It unpacks Jesus' radical language about "hating" family as rabbinic hyperbole that calls disciples to bear their cross, surrender what they hold above God, and receive grace that quickens marriages, families, and communities.
Finally, it issues a call to structure our lives to draw others to the foot of the cross so they may find resurrection, healing, and the work of salvation.
2025-09-0811 min