Tracks for the Times

December 22, 2024 - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 4th Sunday of Advent Read 2 Samuel 6 , Luke 1 , and Revelation 11:19-12:13 on Mary as the New Ark of the Covenant

December 20, 2024 - A Reflection of Jonathan Narloch at the Men's Fellowship following the Parish Holy Hour

December 15, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on Gaudete Sunday (3rd Sunday of Advent) Read Galatians 5 on the Fruit of the Spirit

December 9, 2024 - Sermon by Deacon Chris Pagel on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception The Collect O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and admitted to your...

December 8, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 2nd Sunday of Advent

December 1, 2024 - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 1st Sunday of Advent

November 24, 2024 - Homily by Fr. Glenn Baaten for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

November 22, 2024 - A Reflection of Louie Calma on the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) at the Men's Fellowship following the Parish Holy Hour Additional resources: [Podcast] The Spiritual Gifts: Building up the Body of Christ Spiritual Gifts Assessment [Book] Superhabits: The Universal System for a Successful Life by Dr. Andrew V. Abela [App] Superhabits.app [Podcast] True Happiness: A L...

November 17, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 25th Sunday after Trinity Additional resources: [PDF] Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship by the USCCB Rerum Novarum or [Audio] Read by Louie Calma Dignitas Personae (Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions) by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith Deus Caritas Est by Pope Benedict XVI Laborem Exercens by Pope St. John Paul II...

November 11, 2024 - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 24th Sunday after Trinity

November 3, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 23rd Sunday after Trinity Read  Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship : A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States  ( en Español ), which provides a framework for Catholics in the United States.

November 1, 2024 - Homily by Dcn. Chris Pagel on the Solemnity of All Saints Additional resources: Excerpt from St. Bernard of Clairvaux's sermon on the Solemnity of All Saints

October 26, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten during the Mass for the Men on the Mountain Retreaet at Santiago Retreat Center .

October 27, 2024⁠ - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 22nd Sunday after Trinity "Faith in God the Father Almighty can be put to the test by the experience of evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be absent and incapable of stopping evil. But in the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty power in the voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he conq...

October 20, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 21st Sunday after Trinity

October 13, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 20th Sunday after Trinity for the Patronal Feast Day of St. John Henry Newman Additional resources: The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (Birmingham UK) The Restoration of the Westminster Cathedral The Newman Society in Oxford University Newman Reader by The National Institute for Newman Studies Apologia pro Vita Sua by St. John Henry Cardinal Newma...

October 6, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 19th Sunday after Trinity Additional reference: What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton Catechism of the Catholic Church - Article 7: The Sacrament of Matrimony

September 29, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten for the 18th Sunday after Trinity "Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee." St. Augustine of Hippo ( Confessions , 1,1.5)

September 27, 2024 - A discussion on Romans 6 led by Deacon Chris Pagel at St. John's Men's Holy and Happy Hour. Additional reading on St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: The Two Standards

September 22, 2024 - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 17th Sunday after Trinity Additional resources mentioned: Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 2549 [Book] Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love by Josephine Nobisso The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

September 15, 2024 - Homily by Fr. Jack Barker on the 16th Sunday after Trinity

September 8, 2024 - First Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 15th Sunday after Trinity [Movie] The Scarlet and the Black (1983) [Book] The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican by J.P. Gallagher [Poem] The Virgin by William Wordsworth "By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death, Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolis...

September 1, 2024⁠⁠ - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 14th Sunday after Trinity Encyclicals of St. John Paul II: Veritatis Splendor - The Splendor of Truth (1993) Laborem Exercens - On Human Work (1981) Fides et Ratio - On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason (1998)⁠

August 25, 2024⁠ - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 13th Sunday after Trinity The Collect for the 13th Sunday After Trinity Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service: grant, we beseech thee; that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promises... [Book] What’s Wrong...

August 18, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 12th Sunday after Trinity The Post-Communion Prayer in the Ordinariate Form of the Mass Almighty and ever-living God, we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost feed us, in these holy mysteries, with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ; and dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness...