Fr. Joe Dailey
Fr. Joe Dailey Sunday Homily
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 333
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent A
My family is having a different sort of Advent this year. My nephew and his wife are awaiting the birth of their third child in the next two weeks or so. No one knows the exact day or h…
Homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King
In this most unlikely of places the garden has suddenly returned. Paradise has emerged in the cross-bound conversation between two dying men: one a representative of sin reaching for w…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 33 C
Jesus is teaching us ow to live in the midst of collapse. "Do not be terrified!" Fear shuts us down. Instead, Jesus invites us to see this as a gift: "When they bring you before kings …
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 32 C
Whatever we believe about death is an important question for us because it not only changes the way we imagine God, it changes the way we live our lives.
I am at St. Isidore November 6 @…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 31 C
The story begins with Zacchaeus wanting to see who Jesus was. Up until now, everyone has been looking down on Zacchaeus or overlooking him. For the first time in his life, someone looks…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 30 C
Prayer will always lead us back to one another. It is not about separation, but communion. It’s not about my being better than you, but God’s grace, through me, including you.
I have Mas…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 29 C
We don’t know anything about the widow’s cause, whether she is right or wrong; we only know one thing: she is faithful! She kept coming again and again, relentlessly pursuing her claim.…
Homily for Ordinary Sunday 28 C
The lepers immediately demonstrate their faith by following Jesus’ instruction even though they still have their disease. Only as they are on their way do we find out that “they were ma…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 C
So we should be called “due-nothing” servants, pun intended, which may reflect Jesus' own sense of humor. While this servant clearly is not a “do-nothing” person, it is also clear that…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 26 C
The name Lazarus - in Hebrew “Eliezer” - means “God helps.” Before Abraham had any sons, he had only one heir to his fortune: his steward, Eliezer. In Jewish tradition, Abraham’s stewa…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 25 C
More importantly, the steward has been treated generously by the master since he was only fired instead of being more severely punished. The steward spends his master’s generosity.
I am …
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 24 C
Luke gives us not two, but three parables. There is a rule of three in story telling: "Cinderella" and her two sisters; to use a non-kosher example, "The Three Little Pigs." Usually, th…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 23 C
The sculptor imposes nothing, but only frees what is held captive in stone. Discipleship is something like this. It does not work by means of addition or acquisition, but by release, of…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 22 C
Rather than seeking the best place, Jesus asks us to turn the table and begin with those who don’t even have a place at the table. When we start from the bottom, everyone is included, a…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 21 C
In Hebrew, the word for Egypt is Mitzrayim , which literally means a very narrow place. To come out of Egypt, the Children of Israel had to pass through a narrow, difficult way. God me…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 20 C
Luke is connecting the baptism of Jesus, when the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, like a dove; and his death on the cross, when Jesus gives his Spirit.
I have the 9:30 / 1…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 19 C
"The difference between a labyrinth and a maze is that a labyrinth has no dead ends. No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.” Rachel Held Evans
I have M…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 18 C
A voice from the crowd asks Jesus to mediate in a family inheritance dispute. While Jesus is teaching us how to give our lives away, this man wants to make sure he doesn’t lose anything…
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 17 C
Abraham bargained with God to save the city for the sake of a few righteous ones. Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, expanded the idea: “The world must contain not less than 36 righteous in…
Revised Homily for Sunday Ordinary 16 C
James Alison suggests that Jesus’ comment to Martha is probably a pun, which does not translate well from the original language. Alison imagines Jesus saying: "Martha, Martha, You want …