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.

  • 10/04/19 It’s Not Your Vineyard

    Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many people are overwhelmed by anxiety. Anxiety over all the things that need to get done and over all that they have been through. But God calls us to have no anxiety at all. And to surrender our past, present, and future to His dominion. Mass Readings [...]

  • 09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind

    Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the garden of the mind, our thoughts are constantly growing. Some we want, others we do not. As the gardeners of our own minds, we must think about what we think about, weed out the thoughts that poison our minds, and allow the Word of God [...]

  • 09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter

    Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Our lives will magnify (or highlight) something. Will they be so full of nice things that they will miss the most excellent things? Or will we be wise so that, no matter the outcome, Christ will be highlighted? Mass Readings from September 20, 2020: Isaiah 55:6-9 Psalm [...]

  • 09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness

    Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings from September 13, 2020: Sirach 27:30—28:7 Psalm 103:1-4, 9-12 Romans 14:7-9 Matthew 18:21-35 [mk_button dimension="flat" size="large" url="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/how-do-i-look-the-cost-of-forgiveness.pdf"]DOWNLOAD HOMILY STUDY[/mk_button]

  • 08/30/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For

    Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But taking responsibility for the people in our lives means fighting that temptation. And it means doing what we can to fight for that person. Mass [...]

  • 08/30/20 How Do I Look? “Lucky”

    Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world. Mass Readings from August 30, 2020: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27 [mk_button dimension="flat" size="large" url="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/how-do-i-look-lucky.pdf"]DOWNLOAD HOMILY STUDY[/mk_button]

  • 08/23/20 Influencer

    Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. We can often confuse influence with importance; authority with power. But the Church has been given the very influence and authority of Jesus Christ. Even when the world does not listen to the voice of the Church, She still has the influence and authority of Jesus. Mass [...]

  • 08/16/20 Great Faith

    Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kind of faith that matters. Mass Readings from August 16, 2020: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28

  • 08/09/20 Why Did You Stop?

    Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Distraction is anything that takes our focus away from where it needs to be. Mass Readings from August 9, 2020: 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13 Psalm 85:9-12, 13-14 Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33

  • 08/02/20 All We Have

    Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have real struggles in our lives. What weight do we give our blessings and what weight do we give our struggles? Mass Readings from August 2, 2020: Isaiah 55:1-3 Psalm 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 Romans 8:35, [...]