Catholic Jacks Podcast

December 8, 2021. Immaculate Conception homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God chose Mary as part of His plan of salvation. He also chooses to give us every spiritual blessing and invites us to choose Him and trust as Mary did.

December 5, 2021. 2nd Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God never gives up working on us. He invites us to have the courage to respond to His promptings and allow Him to bring the good work He has begun in us to completion.

November 28, 2021. 1st Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ is coming. We can begin today and be ready joyfully when Christ comes back.

November 21, 2021. Christ the King Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is the Truth and in His Kingdom all will be made known. We can choose to make Him King of our lives now and live in reality, as we wait for the fulness of His Kingdom to come one day.

November 14, 2021. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come back at a particular time, although we know not when. Knowing that He is coming back moves us to be ready now, just as knowing that our last day could be tomorrow motivates us to live life to the full today.

November 7, 2021. 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God invites us to give Him everything. He who gives us everything invites us to bring all that we have and trust that He will take care of us.

October 31, 2021. 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how loving God first helps put everything else in order. Jesus then teaches us how to love ourselves (as He loves us) so that we can together go and love others.

October 24, 2021. 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus heals Bartimeus, a blind man. Bartimeus expresses his desire to Jesus who wants to listen. After answering Bartimeus' desire, Bartimeus chooses to follow Jesus who is the fulfillment of all desire.

October 17, 2021. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants for us to share in His glory, but reveals that the path to get there comes through drinking the cup that He drinks. When we say yes to the cross, Jesus is right by our side, giving us hope that in heaven we will be right by His side.

October 10, 2021. 28th Sunday in Ordinary time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus desires to show us the path to greater happiness. If we trust God and are open to following the path He leads for us, we will experience the goodness and happiness He created us for.

October 3, 2021. 27 th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God made us out of love and has a plan to redeem us by His grace as He makes us into His saints. Marriage reveals the Trinity and forms us into people of communion, better prepared for union with God in heaven.

September 26, 2021. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is serious about sin because it is the one thing that can separate us from Him. We are invited to allow Him to pluck sin out of us and plunge it into the unquenchable fire of His divine love.

September 19, 2021. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is the one who wants to help not only my salvation, but my healing now. By choosing to embrace what I am going through and invite Jesus into it, I can experience His peace no matter what is going on around me.

September 12, 2021. 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus sets his face like flint towards the cross out of love for us. We are invited to embrace our cross and follow the Lord because where the cross is, Jesus is.

September 5, 2021. 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants to bring us healing and wholeness. We cannot control what God does, but we can choose to open up and let Him in to allow Him to bring His healing.

August 29, 2021. 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time from Fr. Matt Lowry about how God's law is meant to move from being external to written on our hearts. As we bring all that is on our hearts to Him, He helps purify us and fill us with even more goodness.

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us freedom to make a response to Him.

August 15, 2021. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God desires to save us, body and soul. Our difficulties become the very means by which we go to God and through which He redeems us.

August 8, 2021. 19th Sunday in Ordinary time homily about how God strengthens us on our journey with the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

July 18, 2021. 16th Sunday in Ordinary time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how as the Good Shepherd, Jesus desires to take care of us. By honoring the sabbath, we allow the Lord to renew and refresh us, and remind us that He is with us and is working all things for our good.

July 11, 2021. 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus sends us out on mission with Him, teaching us to rely not on our personal resources, but on His power.

June 27, 2021. 13th Sunday in Ordinary time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is worth of putting our faith in. Jesus can heal and raise from the dead, so if He doesn't do that for us, He is working on a plan that's even better. We are invited to come to Him with our desires and have faith that He is with us and at work.

June 20, 2021. 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants to expand the limits of our faith. He holds all things in His power and He is with us, even we are experiencing a storm.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God invites us to scatter seeds and then watch the fruit that He will bring forth. We may need to scatter a lot of seeds, but He can take our little efforts and do incredible things.

June 6, 2021. Corpus Christi (Body and Blood of Christ) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us the gift of His blood to invite us into a covenantal relationship with us. He promises to be with us on this difficult journey to the Promised Land.