Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail It’s the beam in our own eye that makes the world look splintered. You know how it is with pointing fingers, one is pointed, but three are pointing back at you. I have Mass on Sunday, March 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@mac.com

Send us Fan Mail The Greek word for grace is CHARIS. When Jesus builds his rhetorical crescendo, criticizing reciprocal love (even sinners do that!), the word translated as “credit” is CHARIS. The phrase is better translated, “If you love those who love you, what grace [CHARIS] is that to you?”   I am away this weekend. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Keeping my eyes fixed on Jesus, I find the center, a level ground on which to stand. Jesus is the still point in a turning world. Like a tree, planted by the water, I shall not be moved. I have Mass on Sunday, February 16 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

Send us Fan Mail Simon Peter is all in. He is entirely present to himself; not just Simon, the big hearted, impulsive man, “If you say so, I will let down the nets.” But Peter as well, the one who will hand Jesus over out of fear: “I don’t know him!” I have Mass on Sunday, February 9 at St. Isidore, 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew, 5:00 pm frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The child masks the power of God in apparent weakness, yet it is in just such weakness that the true power of God’s saving love is revealed.  I have Mass on Sunday, February 2, 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 I was reading about Handel’s famous “Largo” from the Opera, “Xerxes.” I found the music, sat down at the piano and played it. Reading music is a lot like reading the Word of God. Living the Word of God is like playing the notes. The music only comes alive when played, otherwise it is just black dots on lines on a page.  When the melody of God’s Word becomes the song in our lives,...

Send us Fan Mail The Fourth gospel reveals Jesus’ glory through a series of seven signs. It stands to reason that Jesus’s first public “sign” takes place at a wedding feast, for Jesus himself is the marriage of divinity and humanity. (Icon by Greta Leśko) I have Mass on Sunday, January 19 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm St. Isidore 7:30 am will be live-streamed.  https://stis...

Send us Fan Mail Like a shepherd gathering the lost, the glory of God is the sons and daughters of God coming home. (Reading Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11) I have Mass on Sunday January 12 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30/11:30 am The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail There is a wonderful line in The Shack: Mack asks Jesus, “Do all roads lead to you?” He replies, “Not at all. Most roads don’t lead anywhere” – and then adds, “What it does mean that I will travel any road to find you.” (Wm. Paul Young, The Shack) I have Mass on Sunday, January 5th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worsh...

Send us Fan Mail Barbara Brown Taylor notices a change of perspective with Christmas. See how Luke describes it in today’s Gospel: “The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem  and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger." (Luke 2:16) “Everyone in the story is looking down, at a baby they could all see. The light had moved. It was coming from below, not above.” I have Mass at H...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes this story is called “The Child Jesus Lost in Jerusalem” Or “The Finding in the Temple.” Luke Timothy Johnson names this story “Jesus Teaching in the Temple.” We could look at the losses in our own lives from this perspective, and ask: “What is God trying to teach me through this experience?” I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, December 29 @ 9:30/11:30 am I have Mass o...

Send us Fan Mail In receiving the gift of God, we, in turn, become the gift. “He gave power to become children of God.” In this interim time, we must be the face of God for each other. To see those who are invisible and smile on those who feel ashamed.  I have Mass on Christmas Morning at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Luke gives us Elizabeth’s response, "but Mary would have certainly spoken first. ‘Peace, Peace be with you’. And this simple greeting made something vibrate, someone, inside of Elizabeth. And in this vibration, something was said. … Which is the Good News. (Blessed Christian de Chergé, Trappist monk, 20th Century Martyr of Algeria) I have Mass on Sunday, December 22 at St. Is...

Send us Fan Mail Even Zephaniah, who has been called the “gloomiest” of the prophets, did not give devastation and judgment the last word. Zephaniah kept the last word for joy. “The LORD, your God, is in your midst,         he will rejoice over you with gladness,              and renew you in his love.” I have Mass on Sunday, December 15 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm frjoe...

Send us Fan Mail This weekend the world will gather to celebrate the restored Cathedral of Notre Dame, Our Lady of Paris, which was nearly destroyed by fire in April, 2019. . . If we can do this, if we can put aside our national interests and come together for a common good, how much more could we do together to repair the world? I am away this weekend. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Pope Francis read a letter from a Ukrainian student. “When you speak of our pain, when you remember our thousand days of suffering, speak of our thousand days of love, too, because only love, faith, and hope give a real meaning to our wounds.” (Papal Audience at the Vatican, November 20) I have Mass at St. Isidore on December 1st @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail For fifteen days, Maximilian Kolbe occupied the space of death with such a powerful presence and calm that once he had died there was, according to the survivors, a noticeable change in the ambience of the camp.  I have Mass on Sunday, November 24 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail What had seemed like the end is a discovery of something we didn’t know before. “But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever." (Daniel 12:3) I do not have Mass this weekend. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The widow says nothing, and yet her action speaks volumes. The Greek word for her ‘giving her whole life’ prefigures the sacrifice Jesus is about to make. I have Mass on Sunday, November 10 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm. The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The new Papal Encyclical, Dilexit Nos, begins, in English, “HE LOVED US”. Dilexit Nos looks inward, to the heart, which Pope Francis describes as “a core that lies hidden beneath all outward appearances, the innermost part of ourselves." I have Mass on Sunday, November 3rd at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail “How do you expect me to be a saint?” Merton asks. “By wanting to,” Lax answers. “All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. All you have to do is desire it. We are meant to be holy, all of us. We’re all called to be saints.” (From "The Seven Story Mountain" by Thomas Merton) I have Mass on November 1st at St. Kieran Catholic Church @ 7:00 pm Image: "...

Send us Fan Mail The blind man knows it is "Messiah time," the time when the blind see and the poor have their debts canceled and beggars become citizens again. I have Mass on Sunday, October 27 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am I have Mass on Friday, November 1, All Saints Day, at St. Kieran @ 7:00 pm I will post that homily later this week. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail This past Tuesday, October 15, was the feast of the Spanish Mystic, Teresa of Avila. I read this wonderful quote this week from Teresa, “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.” I have Mass on Sunday, October 20  at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Luke paints the picture most vividly. “At that moment, the cock crowed; the Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter.” It’s the same verse we read today in Mark’s Gospel, "Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples." I have Mass on Sunday, October 13 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am the 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed.  https://stisidore.church/worship-online...

Send us Fan Mail The Hebrew word for man, ISH, and the word for woman, ISHA, share the same root word, ESH, which is "fire." The words differ by just two letters - a Yod and a Hey, which together form the first part of the Divine Name, YAH. Click for a fuller description of the Hebrew words for Man, Woman and Fire Here is ISH, ISHA, ESH in picture form I have Mass on Sunday, October 6 at...