Fr. Joe Dailey
Fr. Joe Dailey Sunday Homily
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- every 6 days
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- 332
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family C
Sometimes this story is called “The Child Jesus Lost in Jerusalem” Or “The Finding in the Temple.” Luke Timothy Johnson names this story “Jesus Teaching in the Temple.” We could look at…
Homily for Christmas Day
In receiving the gift of God, we, in turn, become the gift. “He gave power to become children of God.” In this interim time, we must be the face of God for each other. To see those who …
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, C
Luke gives us Elizabeth’s response, "but Mary would have certainly spoken first. ‘Peace, Peace be with you’. And this simple greeting made something vibrate, someone, inside of Elizabet…
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, C
Even Zephaniah, who has been called the “gloomiest” of the prophets, did not give devastation and judgment the last word. Zephaniah kept the last word for joy.
“The LORD, your God, is in…
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, C
This weekend the world will gather to celebrate the restored Cathedral of Notre Dame, Our Lady of Paris, which was nearly destroyed by fire in April, 2019. . . If we can do this, if we …
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent, C
Pope Francis read a letter from a Ukrainian student. “When you speak of our pain, when you remember our thousand days of suffering, speak of our thousand days of love, too, because only…
Homily for Christ the King of the Universe, B
For fifteen days, Maximilian Kolbe occupied the space of death with such a powerful presence and calm that once he had died there was, according to the survivors, a noticeable change in…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 33 B
What had seemed like the end is a discovery of something we didn’t know before. “But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to jus…
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 32 B
The widow says nothing, and yet her action speaks volumes. The Greek word for her ‘giving her whole life’ prefigures the sacrifice Jesus is about to make.
I have Mass on Sunday, Novembe…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 31 B
The new Papal Encyclical, Dilexit Nos, begins, in English, “HE LOVED US”. Dilexit Nos looks inward, to the heart, which Pope Francis describes as “a core that lies hidden beneath all ou…
Homily for the Solemnity of All Saints
“How do you expect me to be a saint?” Merton asks. “By wanting to,” Lax answers. “All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. All you have to do is desire it. We are meant…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 30 B
The blind man knows it is "Messiah time," the time when the blind see and the poor have their debts canceled and beggars become citizens again.
I have Mass on Sunday, October 27 at St. I…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 29 B
This past Tuesday, October 15, was the feast of the Spanish Mystic, Teresa of Avila. I read this wonderful quote this week from Teresa, “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 28 B
Luke paints the picture most vividly. “At that moment, the cock crowed; the Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter.” It’s the same verse we read today in Mark’s Gospel, "Jesus …
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 B
The Hebrew word for man, ISH, and the word for woman, ISHA, share the same root word, ESH, which is "fire." The words differ by just two letters - a Yod and a Hey, which together form t…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 26 B
“All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine. (Pope Francis to young people in Singapore)
I have Mass on Sunday, Sept…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 25 B
God does something beyond anything we could ever have imagined. God takes the place of the one who is cast out.
I have Mass on Sunday, September 22 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am
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Homily for Sunday Ordinary 24 B
The cross seems to lead only to death, not life. But when we come to the cross, or rather, when the cross finds us, we discover the way into the deeper life we yearn for, but did not kn…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 23 B
Rather than giving us a geography of the Holy Land, Mark is giving us a geography of the Gospel: Jesus is willing to go everywhere, – Even crossing boundaries into Gentile territory – t…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 22 B
In September, 2019, The Vatican hosted an inter-religious forum to reappraise the role of Jesus and the Pharisees.
I have Mass on Sunday, September 1st at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The…