Fr. Mike Homilies

Our chaplain Fr. Mike shares his homilies from every weekend Mass. You can see the most recent homilies below, watch on YouTube, or homilies sorted by recent series. You can also read Fr. Mike’s answers to your tough questions.

10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On To You

bulldogCatholic · 10/10/21 Holding On, Part III: Holding On to You

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and over) can end up holding on to us. There are times when we've chosen so often that we no longer have a choice. And there [...]
10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise

bulldogCatholic · 10/03/21 Holding On, Part II: The Power of a Promise

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop holding on to what is holding us back. Other time, we need to keep holding on. The ability to make and [...]
09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless

bulldogCatholic · 09/26/21 Holding On, Part I: Patient and Ruthless

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are things that we need to stop holding on to if we are going to allow Christ to change our lives. Often, we know exactly what those things are. The things that our hands reach for, our eyes look at, and our feet lead us to [...]
09/19/21 Desperate

bulldogCatholic · 09/19/21 Desperate

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." We do not merely desire, we have inordinate desire driven by fear. We do not merely have ambition, we have selfish ambition in which we can only envision one possible outcome. To escape this trap, we must lean [...]
09/12/21 Not Mine

bulldogCatholic · 09/12/21 Not Mine

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. This demands faith. Real faith is more than belief, but involves renunciation of any claim we might have on our [...]
09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.

bulldogCatholic · 09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He was destroying something in the man’s life…his identity. Jesus has to take away the false identity in order to tell us who we truly are. Mass Readings from September 5, 2021: Isaiah 35:4-7 Psalm [...]
08/29/21 Living in Later?

bulldogCatholic · 08/30/21 Living in Later?

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional. Mass Readings from August 29, 2021: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 Psalm 15:2-5 James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me

bulldogCatholic · 08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong. But God has revealed Himself to us, which means we either choose Him…or we choose “not Him.” We don’t get to create our own personally curated version. [...]
08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body

bulldogCatholic · 08/15/21 The Body

Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reunited with our resurrected bodies forever. Our bodies are good, and an essential part of what it is to be human. Mass Readings [...]
08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go

bulldogCatholic · 08/08/21 Consumer Catholic, Part III: Farther to Go

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The worst days of our life often com after the best days of our life. But even in those "worst days", you are not done yet. God has more for you to do and further for you to go. He wants to feed you with what you [...]