Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail Moses implores God: “Although this is a stiff-necked people if now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go with us.” “Let the Lord go with us.” We discover God along the way. We never see God coming, but afterward, in reflecting on our common experience, we recognize the hand of God that was guiding us all along.

Send us Fan Mail The Spirit is given for this benefit: whenever you or I forgive a brother or sister from the heart, we are participating in Christ’s ministry of forgiveness, exercising the priestly ministry of every baptized Christian. I have Mass on Sunday, May 24th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, captures this beautifully in these words from his poem, “As Kingfishers catch fire.” “Christ plays in ten thousand places,  Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his  To the Father through the features of men's faces.” I have Mass on Sunday, May 17th at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Instead of talking about Jesus from the outside, in what we have heard and seen, Jesus is inviting us to meet him in a new way. What Jesus was and said is not past, but present, and everything speaks to us from deep within. Jesus is talking about love taking shape within our lives. I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, May 10th at 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streame...

Send us Fan Mail Remember the painting that Francis introduced to the church, Our Lady, Untier of Knots? She is not resolving the problem; the way you untie knots is to loosen them. And that’s what Pope Francis was doing. He was untying knots. He was dispelling the fears that we have, especially of people who are different than us. I have Mass on Sunday, May 3rd  at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at...

Send us Fan Mail God doesn't love you as an abstraction. The good shepherd is personal, because the shepherd calls his own sheep by name. God knows your name. God knows your story, and God knows your agonies. God knows what brought you here this morning; and you are the person God loves.  I have Mass on Sunday, April 26 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. htt...

Send us Fan Mail As always, the Bible tells the story not so much of our quest for God as of God's passionate quest for us.  I will be celebrating Mass this Sunday in Paris, France, along with 48 other periginus (pilgrims.) frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail "Who touched my clothes?" Jesus asks when surrounded by a crowd of bystanders. And the disciples are disrespectfully bewildered: "You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, 'Who touched me?"' But no touch is anonymous to Jesus; he can easily make out the touch of yearning and trust of the woman suffering from hemorrhages. I have Mass on Su...

Send us Fan Mail In the Eucharist, our eyes are opened and we recognize the presence of Christ in the breaking of the bread. We are given the grace to remember in a new way. I have Mass on Sunday, April 5th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail One of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you? (MT 26:14)    "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUS I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew  at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed  h...

Send us Fan Mail But Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order to see how this would end. (MT 26:57-58)    "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUS I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of th live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses. frjoedail...

Send us Fan Mail When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.  He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”  (MT 27:3)    "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUS I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of at the live Passion of St. Matth...

Send us Fan Mail Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him. (MT 27:27)    "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word," CANTUS I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. (MT 27:59-61) I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew at...

Send us Fan Mail As we gaze upon the cross, there is a still point at the center where all is in harmony, all in balance. It is here at this point where the tensions of the crossings are equal and cannot pull. ( The Center  by Susan Palo Cherwien, Crossings: Meditations for Worship ) I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Gospel of St. Matthew Passion at...

Send us Fan Mail (The Homily begins at minute 6:40) Jesus is experiencing something like a Gethsemane, for he knows that calling Lazarus out of the tomb means that he must enter it. In fact, the belief in Jesus, generated by his raising Lazarus, prompts the religious leaders to plot Jesus’ death.  I have Mass on Sunday, March 22 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail (The Homily begins at the 6:00 minute mark) Where we see sin, Jesus sees something else: Creation is not finished. Reaching down into the dust of the earth from which Adam was created, Jesus continues the Father’s work. I have Mass on Sunday, March 15 at St. Andrew in Rochester @ 5:00 pm frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The woman’s story moves in a new direction when she meets Jesus at the well. There is an essential interplay here. It’s not just our thirst, but God’s thirst for us. I am away this weekend.  frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail There is a beautiful moment in today’s Gospel, that only Matthew tells. When the cloud descended, the disciples were overwhelmed. They fell flat on their faces. Quietly and tenderly, Jesus went to them and touched them. “Get up. Do not be afraid.” I have Mass on Sunday, March 1st at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship...

Send us Fan Mail "The problem with us human beings is never that we do not get what we want. The problem of sin is that we do literally get what we go after, and it looks completely different. Almost as soon as we open our eyes, we notice what we ourselves are without God: mere dust, shamefully naked, helpless, exposed." (Eugen Drewermann) I have Mass on Sunday, February 22 at St. Isidor...

Send us Fan Mail God’s desire for us is not death, but life: “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love” I have Mass on Sunday, February 15 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail "And if we are faithful in this way, as an organized Church and as its individual members, we will succeed in announcing Christ to the world until all is seen in full light.” (Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, from Vatican II in Plain English by Bill Huebsch) I am away this weekend, traveling to Rome and Madrid. I attended Pope Leo's audience on Wednesd...

Send us Fan Mail We are the disciples on the mountain, listening to every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. The very first word that comes out of Jesus’ mouth is “blessed.” Words create realities. The pronouncement of blessing actually conveys the blessing.  I have Mass on Sunday, February 1, at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail All four of these disciples leave their fishing nets, but they do not stop fishing. They are now, in the nearness of the kingdom of heaven, fishers for people. Their past has not been wiped out; it has been transformed by Jesus' call to follow.  I have Mass on Sunday, January 25 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail "Behold, the Lamb of God." I have Mass on Sunday, January 18 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com