| Date | Speaker | Feast | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 27 | Fr. Lawrence | 2nd Sunday of Christmas | John 1:1 again – for those who didn’t get to Christmas Day mass. |
| December 25 | Fr. Lawrence | Christmas Day | The poetry of the Prologue of John’s Gospel – in the original Greek |
| December 24 | Fr. Lawrence | Children’s Liturgy | The final rehearsal for the Pageant got snowed out – and God doesn’t care. |
| December 20 | Fr. Lawrence | 4th Advent | Luke’s Magnificat |
| December 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. |
| November 29 | Fr. Lawrence | 1st Advent | With joyful and patient hope, we prepare for the Son of Man’s coming in glory… |
| November 22 | Fr. Lawrence | Christ the King | Jesus is King – i.e. Son of Man who came to serve, not to be served. |
| November 15 | Fr. Lawrence | 33rd Ordinary | The last reading from Mark – the apocalypse. “Come grow old with me” says God. |
| November 8 | Fr. Lawrence | 32nd Ordinary | The last part of Jesus’ teaching in Mark. The heart of the matter… |
| November 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. |
| October 25 | Fr. Lawrence | 30th Ordinary | Bartimaeus is blind. However, he “sees” the mission of Jesus more clearly than the Apostles. |
| October 18 | Fr. Lawrence | 29th Ordinary | Act III, Scene 3. “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.” |
| October 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…” |
| October 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.” |
| September 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. |
| September 20 | Fr. Lawrence | 25 Ordinary | Mark’s gospel. The second prediction of the passion. And the disciples STILL don’t get it…. |
| September 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. |
| August 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. |
| August 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.” |
| August 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… |
| March 22 | Fr. Lawrence | 4th Lent | Unless we be with-lifted up with Jesus, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. |
| March 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.” |
| March 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. |
| March 1 | Fr. Lawrence | 1st Lent | The temptations of Jesus in the desert according to Mark. So what is (are) the temptation(s)? |
| February 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. |
| February 15 | Fr. Lawrence | 6th Ordinary | Jesus cures the Leper. And gives us a complicated example – respect the law and blow it away when necessary. |
| February 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…” |
| February 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. |
| January 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. |
| January 18 | Fr. Lawrence | 2nd Ordinary | Samuel is called. The Apostles are called. We are called. None are given a roadmap. |
| January 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. |
| January 4 | Fr. Lawrence | Epiphany | Christ, the light as represented by the star of Bethlehem, has broken through to all people, including us gentiles. |
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