Readings: Jeremiah 17: 5-8; 1 Corinthians 15: 12, 16-20; Luke 6: 17, 20-26 Preacher: Deni Mack My mother’s father, John Monaghan, at age fourteen, promised his father on his deathbed, to educate his sisters. He was a blessing to his poor family as he worked to support them. No longer poor, his sisters Kate and Mary blessed hundreds of New York… read more →
Readings: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ephesians 5: 21-32; John 6: 60-69Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack Remember when your children were little? Many of us could have said with Joshua, “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Now, some of our grown children no longer attend church but we know our… read more →
Readings: Exodus 24: 3- 8; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack Think for a moment of the time when you felt most alive in your faith. Was it when you held your newborn child? Was it when on retreat? Was it as you gave communion to a loved one? Any… read more →
Readings: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Hebrews 5: 7-9; John 12: 20-33Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack, DMin God’s covenant is written on our hearts. Some of us sense that when we marry. Many sense it when holding their newborn child. Yet, God’s covenant is often not recognized. Each Lent we try to draw closer to the… read more →
Readings: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11; 2 Peter 3: 8-14; Mark 1: 1-8Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack We hear today’s words from the prophet Isaiah: God asks us to “Comfort, give comfort to my people.” Peter, age 47, loving husband and father of 3 said, “I was detached from the pain of people. I didn’t give… read more →
Readings: Isaiah 55:1-3; Romans 8: 35, 37-39; Matthew 14: 13-21Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack “All you who are thirsty, come to the water. You who have no money, come receive grain and eat…drink wine and milk.” I imagine the children of Yemen and Syria feasting at our family table with their cousins. Also those… read more →
Readings: Acts 2: 14, 22-33; 1 Peter 1: 17-21; Luke 24: 13-35Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Deni Mack Cleopas and his partner are unaware Jesus is walking with them. Years ago in New York City as I clutched our children’s hands and pushed the stroller, a man asked me for money. As I hurried the… read more →
Readings: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14; Colossians 3: 12-21; Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23 Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Deni Mack The Holy Family fleeing to Egypt is frightened. Two thousand years later we may overlook their fear because we know the rest of the story: King Herod did not find the child Jesus and so did not… read more →
Readings: Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11: 1-2, 8-19; Luke 12: 32-48Click here to download a PDF of this homily. Preacher: Deni Mack When have you been led to a place, job, person or event that you now realize must have been God’s will for you? We have been told Abraham and Sarah obeyed God’s calling and went where God called them.… read more →
Readings: Acts 13:14,42-52; Revelations 7:9, 14B-17; John 10:27-30Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack Today throughout the entire world, Mass goers hear from the Acts of the Apostles, “So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went…!” What were they protesting; why did they leave? Religious leaders of that time saw… read more →