Christmas

 Audio sermon recording for the Third Mass of Christmas Day (It is Jesus' birthday. Why do we get and give presents? Listen now to hear what Bishop Giles OFM thinks.)

Christmas

 Audio sermon recording given at the Second Mass on Christmas Day. (We bear Jesus in our hearts and souls by imitating the Blessed Virgin Mary as she ponders in her heart all that was said and done.)

Christmas

Audio sermon recording given at the First Mass on Christmas Day. (May our Christmas be truly happy. Happiness does not mean being free from trouble or difficulties. Jesus' life was full of poverty, suffering, and sacrifice, yet He never was despondent or melancholy.)

Fourth Sunday in Advent

 Audio sermon recording (St John's baptism prepared the way for the baptism given by Jesus. It washes away sin and fills us with His grace.)

Third Sunday of Advent

 Audio sermon recording. (Rejoice in all moderation. May we learn to hear and ponder the words of wisdom, but above all to love them.)

Immaculate Conception

 Audio Sermon recording. (As Jesus tells us to be perfect because our Father in Heaven is perfect, so the Blessed Virgin Mary is perfect. She is perfect from her first moment of existence in her conception. We may become like her only by Baptism.)

Second Sunday of Advent

 Audio sermon recording (Blessed is he that is not scandalized in Jesus.)

First Sunday in Advent

 Audio sermon recording (We need to look at the signs and wonders within ourselves more than those outside us.)

Last Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio Sermon Recording (Our souls are temples. May we always preserve them from abomination and desolation.)

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (May we look inside our souls and find Jesus there so that we may never fear death.)

Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording: (Virtue is in the middle. We need to serve God by giving tribute to both our bodies and our souls.)

Christ The King

 Audio sermon recording. (The kingdom of Jesus is a kingdom of love. Love sets us free.)

20th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (Faith develops in stages. A pumpkin grows in one season. An oak takes many seasons.)

19th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (Our Baptismal innocence is the required wedding garment that permits us to stay for the heavenly wedding banquet)

18th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio Sermon recording (Leave the world behind at times to return home to God)

17th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (We believe all that Jesus taught because He is both God and Man.)

16th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio Sermon recording. (The ways of the world are opposed to the ways of God. Let us follow God rather than the world.)

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (Praying for others is often much more successful than praying for ourselves.)

14th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (We are servants of God but masters over this world. Virtue is in the middle. Use the things of this world as God intends them to be used.)

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (It is the spiritual saving of our souls that is more important than the physical health of our bodies.)

12th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (True love sometimes hurts. Love, however, also soothes and calms the soul, alleviating the pain.)

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (Our tongues are capable of great evil as well as great good. We cover our mouths to prevent the spread of germs. We must learn to hold our tongues to prevent the spread of spiritual germs.)

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (After we have done everything well, we are still unprofitable servants. In all humility we must confess that we have not even risen to the level of being unprofitable servants!)

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost/Portiuncula Indulgences

 Audio sermon recording. (The tears and even the anger of God are filled with loving mercy for us. May we never abuse His love again.)

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (Preparation for heaven is more important than preparation for retirement.)

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. We must avoid the wolves in sheep's clothing on both ends of the spectrum. Virtue is in the middle.

6th Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (Jesus always has His hand out to help us. May we trustingly accept it and follow Him.) 

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording May our hearts be always filled with unfeigned love.

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (Approaching Jesus in the Mass)

Third Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording. (We need to focus on gaining one virtue at a time, or removing one vice at a time)

Second Sunday after Pentecost

 Audio sermon recording (No material thing or passion should keep us from answering God's call)

Trinity Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Trinity Sunday. True power is spiritual not material, constructive not destructive, humble not proud. True power is love.

Pentecost Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Pentecost. (Pray to the Holy Ghost for vocations. He gives true understanding and love.)

Sunday after the Ascension

 Audio sermon recording (The religions of the world are of the world and the devils. They therefore reject the true followers and believersvof Jesus Christ.)

Ascension Thursday

 Audio sermon recording. (Imperfect people are given perfect missions of authority from God.)

5th Sunday after Easter

 Audio sermon recording given on the 5th Sunday after Easter. (What we are to pray for).

Fourth Sunday after Easter

 4th Sunday after Easter. (To Jesus through Mary. The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.)

Third Sunday after Easter

 Audio sermon recording for the 3rd Sunday after Easter. (Blessed Mother's Day. May Crowning. First Holy Communion. Ebb and flow of life here on earth.)

Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

 Audio sermon recording for the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. (Let us pray to St. Joseph to give us the grace of working humbly and lovingly for God.)

Low Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Low Sunday (Peace is necessary for us to have true happiness. Peace is available to us when we are free of sin. We may have our sins forgiven by those Jesus appointed to forgive us our sins -- The Apostles and their successors.)

Easter Sunday

 Audio sermon recordings for Easter Sunday

Midnight

Morning

(Jesus Christ has risen from the dead to die no more. We too must rise from the death of sin to die no more.)

Holy Thursday

 Audio sermon recording (Pray for vocations. Jesus prepares us for His death so that we may live. Sorrow is mingled with joy. Jesus' death, the Holy Eucharist, Mass, and Priesthood.)

Palm Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Palm Sunday (Holy Week is the time for us to draw nearer to Jesus in His loving Sacrifice. We recall the history of His love to learn and advance in grace and virtue.)

Passion Sunday

 Sermon audio recording for Passion Sunday (See and hear others with the intention to aid or build up rather than destroy or tear down. Sometimes we must just walk away rather than cause others or ourselves to sin.)

Fourth Sunday in Lent

 Audio sermon recording for the 4th Sunday in Lent. (This life is filled with extremes. We need to find joy in the middle ground. Our life here on earth is a progression or development - a constant state of change. We need to make sure we are progressing toward Heaven rather than away from Heaven.)

Third Sunday in Lent

 Third Sunday in Lent audio sermon recording. ("Blessed is he that hears the Word of God and keeps it." The grace of perseverance should be our goal.)

Second Sunday in Lent

 Audio sermon recording for the Second Sunday in Lent (Honor our parents and hear them because they speak in the place of God.)

First Sunday in Lent

 First Sunday in Lent audio sermon recording, (We are strengthened in the Sacraments and with the Sacramentals so that we may do battle and overcome evil -- always expanding the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.) 

Quinquagesima Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Quinquagesima Sunday (We should strive to pray with our hearts and minds as well as with our lips.)

Sexagesima Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Sexagesima Sunday (Now is the time to examine ourselves. Our comparison is in relationship to Jesus Christ not our neighbors. We must never stop fighting for God and our soul.)

Septuagesima Sunday

 Audio sermon recording for Septuagesima Sunday. (We are not in competition with each other. Our fight is with fallen angels - demons - not flesh and blood. We are created to complement and complete one another.)

Fifth Sunday after The Epiphany

 Audio Sermon recording from the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany. (A weed is just a plant out of place. All that God has made is good. we simply need to put everything in its correct place and all will be well. The pure wheat in the field should not be adulterated with anything else. The love for God in our souls should not be adulterated with anything else.)

Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

 Audio sermon recording for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany. (The calm as well as the storms in our lives all come to us from the loving hand of our Father in Heaven. They all testify to His love for us. We should be grateful for the crosses as well as the pleasures in our lives.)

Third Sunday after the Eiphany

 Audio sermon recording for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany (May our prayers always be the prayers that God wants us to pray. They can be when we pray that God's Will be done.)

The Holy Family

Audio sermon recording for the feast of the Holy Family (Let us imitate the riches possessed by the Holy Family -- their poverty, humility, patience, etc. the virtues are the real riches.) 

Holy Name of Jesus

Audio sermon recording for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Our New Year's resolutions need to place the Holy Name of Jesus first. Then we will be capable of doing everything else.) 

Feast of the Circumcision

 Audio sermon recording for the feast of the Circumcision. (Love demands complete sacrifice. Jesus our Savior shed the first drops of His Blood. This Blood is the Blood of God and is of infinite value, but His Love demands that He give all of His Blood not just the Blood shed through Circumcision. Let us throughout the year give all our love to God as He gave all His Blood / Love for us.)