Discouraged Disciples
Two disciples returning to Emmaus, shaken and downcast over what has just happened to Jesus and the Church. Then they meet a mysterious stranger…
Below is the title, synopsis and link to each of Fr. John Mary’s homilies from Sundays and major feast days. You can click on any specific entry to either listen to the homily or just read the main points. Two asterisks (**) indicate key homilies for new listeners.
Cleansing the Church and Obedience – March 3, 2024
Listening to God – January 14, 2024
Three Helps to Forgiveness – September 17, 2023
Rediscovering Love – February 12, 2023
Focus on His Will – January 22, 2023
How to Make the Most of Your Life – January 15, 2023
Behold Your Mother – January 1, 2023
Freedom and Responsibility – September 11, 2022
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit – June 5, 2022
The End Is Only the Beginning – May 29, 2022
When They Won’t Listen – March 27, 2022
The Grace of Forgiving – February 20, 2022
Seven Tips for Improvement – August 29, 2021
Introducing Sacred Silence into Our Family – December 27, 2020
Two disciples returning to Emmaus, shaken and downcast over what has just happened to Jesus and the Church. Then they meet a mysterious stranger…
Our times are dark and difficult. But God has plans of immense mercy for us. We return to a message teaching about His mercy for today.
The Renewal of the Church. The Church, the Mystical Bride of Jesus, shares His passion. We are living this today. But she will also share in a new and powerful way in the triumph of His resurrection. The prophecy of Isaiah 54 sings this joyful hope.
In the great darkness, the terrible storm that the Church is entering, the Lord has prepared for us a blessed refuge: the refuge that Jesus offered John and His disciples as He was dying: our Blessed Mother and her Immaculate Heart.
God announced to the Israelites His intervention to save them from oppression. This prepared the even greater mystery that Jesus is calling us to. We share a message about the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
There was a message that strongly compared the events of our time to Palm Sunday. Do you know when it was given? Just after the election of Leo. How does that relate to Palm Sunday?
“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” Lazarus, Mary Magdalene and Martha are dear friends of Jesus. Yet He not seem to respond to them in time.
We need it so desperately. And He gives it. The Gospel shows many religious authorities and “experts” who reject it. And excommunicate the one who receives God’s light. Bishop Strickland warns of a similar reaction to Our Blessed Mother’s words today in the Church.
How important are you to God? In His encounter with the Samaritan woman, Jesus gives us a glimpse. And He shows us how to lead others to Him.
When He calls. When He acts. When He manifests. The Transfiguration and the call of Abraham have special relevance for His Reconquest today. We share a turning point for MDM.
After the temptation in the desert, Satan waited “for an opportune time” to attack again: in Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. This was a different temptation: to fear, to despair. We share a message from Our Blessed Mother about how much he is attacking us today with this temptation. And how to resist it.
The battle for purity, that the Gospel references, is especially hard today. We share a prophetic message from the Lord with some clear guidance.
How can you be a light for the wounded world today and share the Gospel with it? St. Paul gives us an example.
Our hearts desire happiness. Jesus reveals the surprising way to the infinite beatitude that God calls us to.
“Ears open to obedience you gave me.” “Here I am, Lord. I come to do your will.” How can we know what His particular will is today?
… and speak to your heart. (see Hos 2:14). What is “the desert”? How to understand when it seems like God is taking everything away from us?
The Magi responded to a divine opportunity that many others missed. What can they teach us? A meditation of the mystic Maria Valtorta.
They were “very UNimportant people”. Yet they were the first invited. What was the moment like when they first met the newborn Savior? What can we learn from them?