June - 2019

Sermon: The Death Chosen for You (Passion Sunday, March 26th, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 26th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 19th

Drawn to Repentance and Conversion -- Sermon for III Sunday in Lent

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, March 12th

Original sin, boredom, and the empire of empty desire (Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 26th

Loving Our Enemies (Sermon for Sunday, February 19, 2023)

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, Februrary 19th

Pastor's Weekly Update: Sunday, February 12th

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The Habit of Eucharistic Faith

Last month, I gave a sermon on Good Shepherd Sunday on how to raise good future priests – future good shepherds. You might recall that one of the points I offered on how to encourage our sons to consider a priestly vocation was raising them to have reverence for the Eucharist. Since today is Corpus Christi Sunday, it seems a fitting opportunity to revisit this theme in more detail. You have probably heard the statistics on how few Catholics believe in the real presence of Jes

Year of Prayer Recap

From September 2018 to June 2019, we participated in the year of prayer at St. John the Evangelist in Goshen, Indiana. The inspiration for our year of prayer came from our neighbors to the north, the Archdiocese of Detroit. Archbishop Allen Vigneron has undertaken a significant project in bringing revitalization, evangelization, and discipleship to his diocese. His first initiative was to institute a year of prayer, and that has produced fruitful results within the Archdio

Sermon: A Relationship with the Holy Spirit

Talking about the Holy Spirit makes me nervous. For most of my life, I thought that being close to the Holy Spirit meant being obsessed with dramatic healings or with overwhelming and intense spiritual experiences. I think this is what most people think of when we talk about the Holy Spirit – the televangelists and the snake handlers. But that is not true. God wants each one of us to have a deep personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. Pope Benedict once told young people

Sermon: You Were Meant for More

You were made for so much more than this! That is the message of today’s Feast of the Ascension: You were meant for so much more than what this world has to offer. Today we celebrate the final event of the Paschal Mystery that we have been observing ever since Good Friday – the central events of our Lord’s life – His Death, Resurrection, and Ascension. The Ascension is the part that is frequently left out. Easter is such a miraculous event that everything else seems insignifi