Catholic Jacks Podcast

October 20, 2024. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to embrace His will and lay down our lives in service.

October 13, 2024. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to follow and experience the goodness He holds in store for us. He asks us to let go of what possesses us to be able to receive more of what He wants to give.

October 6, 2024. 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us the unique relationship of man and woman to bless one another and the world. By loving in marriage we become the people God desires us to be.

September 29, 2024. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to cooperate with His effort to remove sin and all that separates us from Him. He invites us to come to Him as we are and let His mercy purify us.

September 22, 2024. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to accept His cross and will as we would receive a child. Jesus chooses to be with us in our suffering, holding us, and working all things for our good.

September 15, 2024. 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to freely embrace the cross because there we find Jesus carrying the cross with us out of love.

September 8, 2024. 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants not only to heal us but to bring us to salvation.

September 1, 2024. 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants to form our hearts by His commandments. As our hearts are transformed by His goodness, we can look forward to more and more goodness flowing out of us.

August 25, 2024. 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how when people walked away from Jesus due to His teaching on His Real Presence in the Eucharist, He invited the other disciples to make a choice. Peter responds, where else shall we go, you have the words of eternal. God loves us and our freedom and invites us to make a choice today for Him.

August 18, 2024. 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us His very self to nourish, sustain, and heal us. We can receive Jesus now and by His grace we are led to eternal life.

August 11, 2024. 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us physical and spiritual sustenance to strengthen us on our journey to heaven.

August 4, 2024. 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how our goal as Christians is union with God. In the Eucharist, Jesus is both the means that gives us strength and the end to which we are journeying (union in heaven).

July 14, 2024. 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus sends us out with nothing because He wants to be our everything. By responding with courage and following His prompts, we and the world are changed.

June 23, 2024. 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how although Jesus is sleeping in the boat, He is still with us. Jesus stretches us to the point of being uncomfortable because He wants us to grow.

June 16, 2024. Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how growth takes time and often in unseen ways. By God's grace, if we cultivate our faith and do what is good, it is guaranteed to bear fruit.

June 2, 2024. The Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus (Corpus Christi) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus enters into a covenant with us through His blood. He shares His divine spirit with us and invites us to offer ourselves back to Him.

May 26, 2024. Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is a Trinity of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, whose love pours out into our lives. We are then invited to go share His love, which allows us to experience even more of it.

May 12, 2024. Ascension Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus' power with us can help us persevere through all things. Jesus is with us in our suffering and desires to raise us to share in His divinity in heaven.

May 5, 2024. Sixth Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God chooses to give us life and love and invites us to make a response of choosing Him. He seeks our greatest happiness and by putting Him first, we encounter the love we were created for.

April 21, 2024. Fourth Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is the one who brings healing and salvation through all means, including suffering.

April 14, 2024. Third Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus brings something better to our lives and invites us to witness to that something better to the people around us.

April 7, 2024. Second Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus responds to Thomas' desire. Jesus shows Thomas His wounds, letting Thomas know that Jesus was lovingly with him in his sufferings.

March 31, 2024. Easter Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how encountering the Risen Jesus changes our lives and compels us to be witnesses of His goodness to the world.

March 30, 2024. Easter Vigil homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us a way out of the brokenness caused by Original Sin. The gift of His sacraments offers us redemption and new life that can only come from Him.

March 29, 2024. Good Friday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how each person has a choice in the face of sin: we can choose to turn away from Christ or toward Him and embrace His cross and find salvation.