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.

11/01/21 Your Feast Day

bulldogCatholic · 11/01/21 Your Feast Day

Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of the countless people He has redeemed and sanctified. Mass Readings from November 1, 2021: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 Psalms 24:1-6 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew [...]
10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost

bulldogCatholic · Learning to Lose, Part III: All is Lost

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love when we are winning, but are we able to love when we've lost? What if we have lost everything? When we've lost, we are most tempted to become bitter, resentful, and take back our [...]
10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up

bulldogCatholic · 10/24/21 Learning to Lose, Part II: Get Up

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin to stack up and we get to the point where we haven't just lost...we've been beaten. We can wind up feeling defeated. Into this place of defeat, God Himself speaks into our loss [...]
10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?

bulldogCatholic · 10/17/21 Learning to Lose, Part I: Winner or Witness?

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is to gain power and influence. If a person wins they get power, and with that power they can re-shape the world as they see fit. But a Christian view of winning is different. Life is [...]
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 [...]