St. Vincent de Paul Church

2009 Homilies
Readings Cycle B | 2007 Homilies | 2008 Homilies

Date	Homilist	Feast	Content
Dec. 27	Fr. Lawrence	2nd Sunday of Christmas	John 1:1 again - for those who didn't get to Christmas Day mass.
Dec 25	Fr. Lawrence	Christmas Day	The poetry of the Prologue of John's Gospel - in the original Greek
Dec 24	Fr. Lawrence	Children's Liturgy	The final rehearsal for the Pageant got snowed out - and God doesn't care.
Dec 20	Fr. Lawrence	4th Advent	Luke's Magnificat
Dec 8	Fr. Lawrence	2nd Advent	"In the fifteenth year..." In Luke's spirituality, God chooses to be WITH us in history - not apart from it.
Nov 29	Fr. Lawrence	1st Advent	With joyful and patient hope, we prepare for the Son of Man's coming in glory...
Nov 22	Fr. Lawrence	Christ the King	Jesus is King - i.e. Son of Man who came to serve, not to be served.
Nov 15	Fr. Lawrence	33rd Ordinary	The last reading from Mark - the apocalypse. "Come grow old with me" says God.
Nov 8	Fr. Lawrence	32nd Ordinary	The last part of Jesus' teaching in Mark. The heart of the matter...
Nov 1	Fr. Lawrence	All Saints/Souls	We celebrate the Communion of Saints - and pray with/for all those who have gone before as well as all those who will come after us.
Oct 25	Fr. Lawrence	30th Ordinary	Bartimaeus is blind. However, he "sees" the mission of Jesus more clearly than the Apostles.
Oct 18	Fr. Lawrence	29th Ordinary	Act III, Scene 3. "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve."
Oct 11	Fr. Lawrence	28th Ordinary	Scene 2, Act III. A 3-part homily on "stuff." "If you want to be my disciple, give up your dominion over people and your quest for stuff..."
Oct 4	Fr. Lawrence	27th Ordinary	"And Jesus said." He probably did utter an absolute prohibition against divorce. The Church has been creating loopholes ever since to make the doctrine "livable."
Sept 27	Fr. Lawrence	Feast of St. Vincent	Vincent found out what God was saying in the gospel later in life. We can, too - and on a personal level, an institutional level, and a reform level.
Sept 20	Fr. Lawrence	25 Ordinary	Mark's gospel. The second prediction of the passion. And the disciples STILL don't get it....
Sept 4	Fr. Kennedy Seketa	23 Ordinary	The homilist encourages us to look at our daily lives as opportunities to grow in the love God and do all for the love of God.
Aug 30	Fr. Lawrence	22 Ordinary	The gospel according to Mark. The homilist give a broad outline of the gospel for the year, Mark, which we return to after a long hiatus.
Aug 23	Fr. Lawrence	21 Ordinary	The homilist, like Joshua, reminds us of the great things the Lord has done for us. Choose - between the Lord or the gods of those among whom we dwell. "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
Aug 16	Fr. Lawrence	20th Ordinary	John 6: Sermon on the Bread of Life. The homilist explicates the Eucharistic Prayer (Canon) as it relates to this Sermon. See handout.
July 26	Fr. Lawrence	Song of Songs	Our love, like God's love, should be as passionate as that celebrated in the Song of Songs.
July 19	Fr. Lawrence	Esther	Like Esther, we are part of the Diaspora. We must be part of, but not assimilated, by the empire in which we live.
July 12	Fr. Lawrence	Ruth	"Wherever you go, I will go...You're people will be my people, your God, my God..."
June 28	Fr. Lawrence	13th Ordinary	Jesus engages in His healing ministry. Healing???
June 21	Fr. Lawrence	12th Ordinary	Mark revisited - Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm. "God will not go away."
June 14	Fr. Lawrence	Corpus Christi	This is my blood, the new covenant which shall be shed for many..
June 7	Fr. Lawrence	Trinity Sunday	God created humans in His own image. What we can learn of God, we learn by knowing ourselves.
May 31	Graduating High School seniors	Pentecost	Reflections - at post-communion time graduating seniors reflect on their life at St. Vincent's.
May 31	Fr. Lawrence	Pentecost	The homilist addresses the high school graduates who are celebrating at this service. Christ commissioned us to use our talents in the service of God.
May 24	Fr. Lawrence	7th Easter	The add-ons to the Gospel of Mark.
May 17	Fr. Kennedy	6th Easter	"Love one another as I have loved you...."
May 10	Fr. Jay O'Connor	5th Easter	"Paul, what are you doing?"
May 3	Fr. Lawrence	4th Easter First Communion	Good Shepard Sunday. The homilist addresses the first communicants about their role as sheep and shepards.
April 26	Fr. Lawrence	3rd Easter	Jesus appears to the disciples on the way to Emmaus. "...having accomplished all according to the scripture..."
April 19	Fr. Lawrence	2nd Easter	The Resurrection story according to John. "I am going to my God AND your God..."
April 12	Fr. Lawrence	Easter Sunday	"He is risen" And we will rise as well....
April 5	Fr. Lawrence	Palm Sunday	The passion according to Mark. The homilist explicates three specifically Markian passages in the narrative.
March 29	Fr. Lawrence	5th Lent	The covenant - Noah, Abraham, Moses, now us thru Jesus...
Mar 22	Fr. Lawrence	4th Lent	Unless we be with-lifted up with Jesus, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mar 15	Fr. Lawrence	3rd Lent	Jesus cleans the temple of those who would make it a marketplace. "He did not need anyone to testify about human nature. He himself understood it well."
Mar 8	Fr. Lawrence	2nd Lent	The Transfiguration. Jesus is transformed like Isaac in the first reading - in the glory that will he His after the resurrection.
Mar 1	Fr. Lawrence	1st Lent	The temptations of Jesus in the desert according to Mark. So what is (are) the temptation(s)?
Feb 22	Fr. Lawrence	7th Ordinary	Jesus cures the man lowered down through the roof. And gives us an example of how to help the paralyzed.
Feb 15	Fr. Lawrence	6th Ordinary	Jesus cures the Leper. And gives us a complicated example - respect the law and blow it away when necessary.
Feb 8	Fr. Lawrence	5th Ordinary	Peter's mother-in-law was healed - and the "got up to serve" them. A bookend to Jesus' "I cam to serve, not to be served..."
Feb 1	Fr. Lawrence	4th Ordinary	Through works and words, Jesus reveals who He is and who God is. He begins teaching in the synagogue differently - with authority rather than with footnotes.
Jan 25	Fr. Lawrence	3rd Ordinary	We begin the reading of the Gospel of Mark in earnest today, from the beginning. Mark, like each of the gospel writers, has his own flavor. Savor it.
Jan 18	Fr. Lawrence	2nd Ordinary	Samuel is called. The Apostles are called. We are called. None are given a roadmap.
Jan 11	Fr. Lawrence	Baptism of Jesus	This feast ends a season (Christmas) and begins another (Ordinary time). It begins Jesus' ministry to heal, reveal, inspire, and amaze.
Jan 4	Fr. Lawrence	Epiphany	Christ, the light as represented by the star of Bethlehem, has broken through to all people, including us gentiles.