Catholic Jacks Podcast

January 19, 2025. Second Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus desires to bless us with good wine now. His invitation is for us to bring our concerns and difficulties to Him and for Him to with be with us in them.

January 12, 2025. Baptism of the Lord homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God gives us His divine grace in baptism and then invites us to become disciples through cooperating with His transforming grace.

December 25, 2024. Christmas homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God who is all powerful and move all things by His arm, chooses to humble Himself and become a baby so that we can embrace Him in our arms.

December 22, 2024. Fourth Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is continually trying to come to us, if we have hearts and ears open to it. One privileged way is through Mary, the mother of His Son, Jesus.

December 9, 2024. Immaculate Conception homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Mary cooperated with God's grace. Even though we are not perfect, by cooperating with God's grace in His plan in our life, we are perfected.

December 15, 2024. Third Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how we are called to Rejoice this Sunday and always, knowing that God is with us and in His will, all things work for good.

December 8, 2024. Make Straight the Path by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

December 1, 2024. First Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come again and now is the time to do what we need to be ready.

November 24, 2024. Christ the King by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

November 17, 2024. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come again. As we may have experienced His peace, love, and mercy already, so His coming on the last day will bring even more. We embrace His nearness this day so that we can ready and at peace on that day He comes again.

November 10, 2024. The Power of Poverty by Catholic Jacks at NAU Newman Center

November 3, 2024. 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God calls us to love Him above all because it helps heal and redeem our fallenness.

October 27, 2024. 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Bartimeus approaches Jesus with the desire to see. Even though Bartimeus was blind, he saw enough to know that Jesus is God and the One he needs.

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).