The Friar
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These podcasts feature homilies given at Mass and commentaries on various eclectic topics.
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We pray for peace in Gaza, but violence continues. We see people suffering from hunger and malnutrition, and yet the hungry remain despite our prayers. We pray and pray for illness to be healed, relationships to be reconciled, but brokenness remains.
Continue reading Does God listen? Homily for Sunday, October 5, 2025 at The Friar.
Why do we pray? Does God really listen? In what ways does God protect us? And do we find ourselves protected when things go wrong?
Continue reading Why do we pray? Homily for Thursday, October 2, 2025 at The Friar.
Ya sea una decisión importante o insignificante, las opciones que tomamos nos moldean y nos convierten en lo que somos. ¿Elegiremos las opciones que nos llevan a Dios o no?
Continue reading Opciones: Homilía para el domingo 28 de septiembre de 2025 at The Friar.
Whether or not it is a big choice or a little choice, the choices we make form and shape us into persons. Will we choose the choices that lead us to God or not?
Continue reading Choices: Homily for Sunday, September 28, 2025 at The Friar.
Whether it is a major edifice like the Jewish Temple, or how it is that we build our own lives, it matters what we use for materials. Give some thought today about how you will let God work in your life as a Temple of the Holy Spirit.
Continue reading Building a temple: Homily for Thursday, September 25, 2025 at The Friar.
You can't love God and love money. The income inequality on the planet is a record levels. There was a similar situation during the time of the prophet Amos in the first reading. Jesus warns us of the danger of greed. Can we choose God over money?
Continue reading You can’t love God and love money: Homily for Sunday, September 21, 2025 at The Friar.
Nuestro mundo parece no tener límites a la hora de mostrarnos el mal. Nos rodea por todas partes. Pero, como católicos, tomamos el mayor mal, la crucifixión del mal, y lo exaltamos. Este acto perfecto de amor hace posible nuestra salvación.
Continue reading El problema del mal: Homilía para el domingo 14 de septiembre de 2025 at The Friar.
Our world seems to have no limit to showing us evil. It is all around us. But, as Catholics we take the greatest evil, the crucifixion of evil, and we exalt it. This perfect act of love makes our salvation possible.
Continue reading The Problem of Evil: Homily for September 14, 2025 at The Friar.
In a world that seems filled with evil, can we be kind? The readings today provide for us the characteristics of Christians. Just imagine what our world could be if we all lived out of these values.
Continue reading Can we be kind?: Homily for Thursday, September 11, 2025 at The Friar.
Do you have it in you? Being a Christian, a real Christian, requires us to recognize that we need God's grace. And we need to realize that God is both imminent and transcendent.
Continue reading Do you have it in you? Homily for Sunday, September 7, 2025 at The Friar.
Do you know Jesus? Or do you just know about Jesus? Peter learns in today's gospel that not only does Jesus know him, he loves him. And he calls him to do great things for him.
Continue reading Do you know Jesus? Homily for Thursday, September 4, 2025 at The Friar.
When was the last time you found a teaching of Jesus to be a challenge? When did you find the gospel difficult because it challenged you to consider a gospel teaching in a different light because it was not your position?
Continue reading Challenged by Jesus: Homily for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at The Friar.
Jesus wanted us to know his Father. That's why he came. Jesus is the profound and fundamental revelation of the Father. And so that we would not have to guess, Jesus establishes the Church. The Church helps us to know, well, what should we believe about God? What is the most important thing? The challenge, of course, is that we can be like Jephthah.
Continue reading Do you know God?: Homily for Thursday, August 21, 2025 at The Friar.
Following God. Every Dominican is asked this question: “What do you seek?” And every Dominican answers this question: “God’s mercy and yours.” From the very start of a friar’s life is the admission that we simply cannot rely upon ourselves alone. We need God.
Continue reading Following God is not always easy: Homily for Sunday, August 17, 2025 at The Friar.
Reason and Faith. For a Catholic, these two worlds are integrated. Reason without faith can limit our ability to receive all God wants to give us.
Continue reading Two Worlds: Homily for Thursday, August 14, 2025 at The Friar.
What does it mean to be a parish staffed by Dominicans? Regular Observance and Sacred Preaching. We explore in this homily what it means specifically to be a parish that embraces this charism.
Continue reading Regular Observance and Sacred Preaching: Homily for Sunday, August 10, 2025 at The Friar.
Spiritual growth or regression does not happen all at once. In today's first reading Moses disregards God's command to strike the rock once. While this may seem to be a minor issue, God rebukes Moses for not manifesting God's holiness.
Continue reading Not all at once: Homily for Thursday, August 7, 2025 at The Friar.
We need friends. We heard not too long ago about Martha that was so busy about many things and how Mary chose the better part. But today we learn that Martha chose the better part too. She professes her faith in Jesus as the Messiah.
Continue reading We need friends: Homily for Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at The Friar.
Qué es la justicia? ¿Y cuál es la diferencia entre justicia y equidad? Abraham, en la primera lectura de hoy, nos ayuda a comprender la justicia de Dios.
Continue reading ¿Qué es la justicia?: Homilía para el domingo 27 de julio de 2025 at The Friar.
What is justice? And what is the difference between justice and fairness? Abraham in today's first readings helps us to understand the justice of God.
Continue reading What is Justice? Homily for Sunday, July 27, 2025 at The Friar.
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