30th Sunday Ordinary Time, Cycle C, 27 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (20 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. Who is Jorge Mario Bergolio? "I am a sinner. This is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner." Let us join Pope Francis in admitting we are sinners in need of the Mercy of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Readings: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18; Psalm 34; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14

Saturday 29th Week Ordinary Time, 26 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (6 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. The Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, but rather in his conversion that he may live.

Readings: Romans 8:1-11; Psalm 24; Luke 13:1-9

Friday 29th Week Ordinary Time, 25 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (9 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want.

Readings: Romans 7:18-25a; Psalm 119; Luke 12:54-59

St Anthony Mary Claret, 24 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (7 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing.

Readings: Romans 6:19-23; Psalm 1; Luke 12:49-53

San Juan Capistrano, 23 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (9 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. Sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.

Readings: Romans 6:12-18; Psalm 124; Luke 12:39-48

Tuesday 29th Week Ordinary Time, 22 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (5 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. If by Adam's sin many have died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of Jesus Christ overflow for the many.

Readings: Romans 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21; Psalm 40; Luke 12:35-38

Monday 29th Week Ordinary Time, 21 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (8 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Instead become rich in what matters to God: Love, Mercy, Justice, Generosity, Self-control...

Readings: Romans 4:20-25; Luke 1:69-75; Luke 12:13-21

29th Sunday Ordinary Time, 20 October 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (15 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work. READ YOUR BIBLE.

Readings: Exodus 17:8-13; Psalm 121; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2; Luke 18:1-8

Tuesday 27th Week Ordinary Time, 8 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (8 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. We must first sit at the feet of Jesus like Mary, becoming a Disciple, before we serve the needs of others like Martha.  The people of Nineveh are saved because God desired their conversion and sent Jonah to tell them.

Readings: Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 130; Luke 10:38-42

Our Lady of the Rosary, 7 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (13 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. You can pray the Rosary meditating on the 20 mysteries or as explained here meditate on sections of the Gospel. Lets all be the Good Samaritan showing mercy to those in need.

Readings: Jonah 1:1-2:1-2, 11; Jonah 2:3-5, 8; Luke 10:25-37

27th Sunday Ordinary Time, Cycle C, 6 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (18 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. St Paul reminds us to stir into flame the gift of God that you have... For God did not give you a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.

Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4; Psalm 95; 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10

St Faustina Kowalska, 5 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (9 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. Jesus told St Faustina, "These beams signify water and blood. The water which purifies souls; the blood which is the life of the soul. They spring from my heart which was opened on the Cross." Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy often.

Readings: Baruch 4:5-12 27-29, Psalm 69, Luke 10:17-24

St Francis of Assisi, 4 Oct 2013

Click here to listen to this homily (8 min) given by Fr Thomas Weise. O God, by whose gift St Francis was conformed to Christ in poverty and humility, grant that, by walking in Francis' footsteps, we may follow your Son, and, through joyful charity, come to be united with you.