Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

A brief article on the school's closure may be found on the Archdiocesan newspaper's website, The Leaven: https://theleaven.org/lack-of-financial-support-leads-to-closing-of-kck-school/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understanding,and my entire will,All I have and call my own.You have given all to me.To you, Lord, I return it.Everything is yours; do with it what you will.Give me only your love and your grace,that is enough for me. (republished from 2021) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

"Events happen to us pleasant or painful; we do not know at the time the meaning of them, we do not see God's hand in them. If indeed we have faith, we confess what we do not see, and take all that happens as His; but whether we will accept it in faith or not, certainly there is no other way of accepting it. We see nothing. We see not why things come, or whither they tend. Jacob cried out on one occasion, "All these things are against me;" [Gen. xlii. 36.] certainly so they seemed to be. One son made away with by the rest, another in prison in a foreign land, a third demanded;—"Me have ye bereaved of my children; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." Yet all these things were working for good. Or pursue the fortunes of the favourite and holy youth who was the first taken from him; sold by his brethren to strangers, carried into Egypt, tempted by a very perilous temptation, overcoming it but not rewarded, thrown into prison, the iron entering into his soul, waiting there till the Lord should be gracious, and "look down from heaven;" but waiting—why? and how long? It is said again and again in the sacred narrative, "The Lord was with Joseph;" but do you think he saw at the time any tokens of God? any tokens, except so far as by faith he realized them, in faith he saw them? His faith was its own reward; which to the eye of reason was no reward at all, for faith forsooth did but judge of things by that standard which it had originally set up, and pronounce that Joseph was happy because he ought to be so. Thus though the Lord was with him, apparently all things were against him. Yet afterwards he saw, what was so mysterious at the time;—"God did send me before you," he said to his brethren, "to preserve life ... It was not you that sent me hither, but God; and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt"… --Saint John Henry Newman, The Darkness of Faith --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

La importancia de una formación verdaderamente católica --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.” —Saint John of the Cross --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

"There are those who, while they recognize the glory of God as well as the importance of man and the call addressed to him in general, believe in false humility, that the call is meant for all others but not for their own person. They deem their own person too wretched to dare assume that they may refer the divine call to themselves. They would hide in a corner and play the part of mere onlookers. The sight of their wretchedness impels them to exclude themselves from the great dialogue between God and man. This ostensible excess of humility, for all the diffidence it involves, is not free of an element of pride. For here, once more, man presumes to decide himself where he stands, instead of leaving that decision to God. Yet, this is precisely the test of true humility, that one no longer presumes to judge whether or not one is too miserable to be included in the call to sanctity but simply answers the merciful love of God by sinking down in adoration." -- Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." G.K. Chesterton --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Feliz y Santa Navidad a todos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

It's darkest just before dawn https://www.ctkkcks.org/33-days-morning-glory --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

I forgot to acknowledge the wonderful essay by Tom Hoopes of Benedictine College for most of the content for this homily. View it here: https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-forgiveness-is-hard-correction-is-harder-one-thing-is-needed?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=273424581&utm_content=273424581&utm_source=hs_email --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Noble no es el alma que nada hiere, sino la que pronto sana. --Don Colacho --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

The C.S. Lewis "Doodle" can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTeCyrgjIQ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Extended quotation taken from True Leadership by The Habiger Institute Available from Cluny Media: https://clunymedia.com/products/true-leadership?_pos=1&_sid=cdf28fddb&_ss=r --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

"The more I buy, the more I'm bought / and the more I'm bought, the less I cost" --Joe Pug, "Hymn #109" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, was above all a preacher of God's Word. Much of his priesthood, episcopacy, and papacy was dedicated to opening the Scriptures so that they could bring life to the faithful. His formulation of the Law of the Gift offers us the chance to consider the ways in which we approach life as a game to be played rather than a gift to be shared, and to be converted to the full truth of the Gospel. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

“Jesus wants me to tell you again, especially in this Holy Week, how much is the love He has for each one of you – beyond all you can imagine.  I worry some of you still have not really met Jesus – one to one – you and Jesus alone. We may spend time in chapel – but have you seen with eyes of your soul how He looks at you with love?  Do you really know the living Jesus – not from books but from being with Him in your heart?  Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?  Ask for the grace, He is longing simply to give it.  Until you can hear Jesus in the silence of your own heart, you will not be able to hear Him saying ‘I Thirst’ in the hearts of the poor.  Never give up this intimate contact with Jesus as a real living person – not just an idea.  How can we last even one day living our life without hearing Jesus say ‘I love you’ – impossible.  Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air.  If not, prayer is dead – meditation only thinking.” --Mother Teresa, "Varanasi Letter" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

Delivered at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Topeka, KS 9 June 2023 Congratulations and prayers to Mr. and Mrs. Gentry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support

First, thank you for your prayers for the principal search. I am pleased to announce we have hired a principal for the coming school year, Alex Weibel. Read about it at https://telegra.ph/Welcome-Alex-Weibel-as-Principal-of-Christ-the-King-School-05-20 Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalen went to the tomb, and found the stone moved away from the tomb door. So she came running to Simon Peter, and that other disciple, whom Jesus loved; They have carried the Lord away from the tomb, she said to them, and we cannot tell where they have taken him... The disciples went back home; but Mary stood without before the tomb, weeping. And she bent down, still weeping, and looked into the tomb; and saw two angels clothed in white sitting there, one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her, Woman, why art thou weeping? Because they have carried away my Lord, she said, and I cannot tell where they have taken him. Saying this, she turned round, and saw Jesus standing there, without knowing that it was Jesus. Woman, Jesus said to her, why art thou weeping? For whom art thou searching? She supposed that it must be the gardener, and said to him, If it is thou, Sir, that hast carried him off, tell me where thou hast put him, and I will take him away. Jesus said to her, Mary. And she turned and said to him, Rabboni (which is the Hebrew for Master). Then Jesus said, Do not cling to me thus; I have not yet gone up to my Father’s side. Return to my brethren, and tell them this; I am going up to him who is my Father and your Father, who is my God and your God. John 20:1-2, 10-17 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hucklefather/support