Readings: Leviticus 13: 1-2, 44-46; 1 Corinthians 10: 31-11:1; Mark 1: 40-45Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Cathy Kamp Healing with a caring touch is a hallmark of the ministry of Jesus in Mark’s Gospel. In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus cured Peter’s mother-in-law by offering her his hand, and in this week’s Gospel, he touches the leper… read more →

Readings: Job 7: 1-4, 6-7; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23; Mark 1: 29-39Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Karen Dietz The Book of Job is really a theological treatise of sorts, attempting to make the mystery of suffering more understandable. That is what we are presented with in today’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures. Tragedy upon… read more →

Readings: Deuteronomy 18: 15-20; 1 Corinthians 7: 32-35; Mark 1: 21-28Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Nancy DeRycke As Chaplain at a local nursing home, I often marvel at people’s insights. I was leading a floor service recently and was interrupted by Joel, a resident and a self-proclaimed agnostic. He told of his boarding an airplane on… read more →

Readings: Jonah 3:1-5,10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31;Mark 1:14-20Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deirdre McKiernan Hetzler There is an urgency in all of our readings today, isn’t there? Jonah preaches “Forty days more and Nineveh will be destroyed.” Paul writes “the time is running out…the world in its present form is passing away.” And, just before calling his… read more →

Readings: 1 Samuel 3: 3B-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6: 13C-15A, 17-20; John 1: 35-42Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Gloria Ulterino I took a look at the readings for this weekend. Oh, I love the story of the call of Samuel! Surely I would focus on that! But then, I looked again. And, what do you know?… read more →

Readings: Isaiah 42: 1-4.6-7; Acts 10: 34-38; Mark 1: 7-11Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Christine Nowak Kvam As the Gospel writers tell it, the significance of Jesus’ baptism isn’t really in the ritual of cleansing with water. The real meaning is found in what happens next. In a couple of simple sentences, Mark tells us three… read more →

Readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 2-3A, 5-6; Matthew 2: 1-12Click here to download a PD of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Joan Sobala To begin, the Magi didn’t just happen to see the star. They had to focus their vision on the heavens. It’s likely that other astronomers and astrologers saw the star too, but only three—for whatever holy or gainful… read more →

Readings: Genesis 15: 1-6; 21: 1-3; Hebrews 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Luke 2: 22-40Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Frank Staropoli Seamus and Dierdre O’Heaney were sitting in their usual pew at St. Malachy’s on Holy Family Sunday. Their eight children were arrayed, four on either side of them, placed in the order their parents deemed least likely… read more →

Readings: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Romans 16: 25-27; Luke 1:26-38Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Phyllis Tierney, SSJ “Keep trudging!” was a favorite message of my good friend and pastor, Fr. Frank Connolly during my first years as a pastoral assistant at St. Pius Tenth in Greensboro, NC. It was God’s message to the Israelites… read more →

Readings: Isaiah 61: 1-2, 10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John: 1:6-8, 19-28Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Janet Korn Advent is generally a hopeful, festive, and positive time of the year, at least in the United States, but this year is different for us. We are not all on the same page when thinking about our country.… read more →