4th Sunday of Lent Year B CFCA 22 March 2008

Click here to download and listen to this homily (22 minutes) by Fr. Art Kirwim OP.  This is a call out homily looking for sponsors for children through the CFCA-Christian Foundation for Children and Aging.  CFCA finds sponsors for over 310K children and aged in 25 developing countries.  The sponsorship helps put food on the table, send the child to school, provides access to health care, and improve living conditions.  By sponsoring a child we help end the cycle of poverty.  See more details at www.cfcausa.org 

Thank You to Cathedral Parishioners who sponsored more than 40 kids!

Readings: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Psalm 137; Ephesians 2:4-10; John 3:14-21

3rd Sunday Lent Year B 15 March 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (24 minutes) given by Fr Thomas Weise.  Looking at the Ten Commandments not as rules to ruin our fun, but as the rules of the game of life just as sports have rules to help the players play well together.  So when we fail to play by God's Commandments we are out of bounds or a penalty flag is thrown, sin and suffering are experienced not only by us but by our whole team, the human family. 

Homework: Grab a copy of any Catechism and read up on the Ten Commandments this Lent. Then prepare for the sacrament of reconciliation.  I know after my study I will be saying, "Forgive me Father for I have sin.  Numbers one through ten, in thought and/or in deed."

Readings: Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25

2nd Sunday Lent B 8 March 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (22 minutes) by Fr. Thomas Weise on the care of creation.  I was asked, "You don't believe in climate change do you?"  I answered, "No, I believe in Jesus; I am experiencing Climate change."  Yes climate change is happening at an even faster rate than the most conservative scientist expected.  Our response to this economic crisis must be care of creation and the common good.  Jesus was transfigured and the apostles could see in a new way.  Lets us prayer that our eyes are opened as well to the needs of the poor and the care of our planet.

Learn more about the Catholic Response to Climate Change:

 www.catholicsandclimatechange.org

Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Psalm 116; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10

Ash Wednesday 25 Feb 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (7 minutes) given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 12:10 pm Mass.  Lents starts with high expectations.  This will be the year we loose 30 lbs, volunteer at the soup kitchen, and bring our brother Fred back to the Church.  Yet when our practice is focused on what we want it rarely lasts through to Easter.  Let us spend a few days asking God what we should do differently this Lent.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rice Bowl Dinners 6 pm with Stations of the Cross at 7 pm.

Readings: Joel 2:12-18; Psalm 51; 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18.

7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 22 Feb 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (19 minutes) given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 8:30 am Mass.  Seeing the faith of the friends of the paralytic Jesus says, "Child, your sins are forgiven."  Healing flows from the forgiveness of sins.  Let us learn to forgive as taught to us in the Lord's Payer.  "Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others' quilt."  Then we will be able to rise, pickup our mat, and go home.

Readings: Isaiah 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25; Psalm 41; 2 Corinthians 1:18-22; Mark 2:1-12.

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 15 Feb 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (25 minutes) given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 5:30 pm Mass.  Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean."  Curing the leper of his spots restored him to the community, he was no longer unclean and outside the community.  This restoration is the good news the former leper feels compelled to tell everyone.  In our stain glass window the lepers look like the have polka dots, in some way we are all covered in dots of one sort or the other.  Jesus heals us of these dots.  We need to be like Jesus and invite all those who feel outside the church community to return and be healed through the Eucharist.

Bishop-Elect Edward Burns would like to personally invite back anyone who feels outside our community.  Please let Fr. Thomas Weise know who these persons might be.

Readings: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; Psalm 32; 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1; Mark 1:40-45

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 8 Feb 2009

Click here to down load and listen to this Homily (20 minutes) given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 5:30 pm Mass.  Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law and she immediately fixes dinner.  When we are sick we long to get back to work, so that when we are healed we do get busy.  After sunset the whole town shoes up at the door wanting to be healed and set free.  In the morning after prayer Jesus heads out to other towns to share the good news.  The good news is that when we come forward for the Eucharist we a touched by God and set free of sin and healed of our infirmities. 

Who will you invite to come to Mass with you this week?

Readings: Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 147; 1 Corinthians 9:16-19; 22-23; Mark 1:29-39