Catholic Jacks Podcast

January 7, 2024. Epiphany homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how the Magi saw and responded. Jesus draws all people and wants to fulfill their deepest desires.

December 31, 2023. Holy Family Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is faithful to His promises. If we are looking for it and remain faithful, God will allow us to see His salvation and redemption already at work, not just in our world, but in our families.

December 25, 2023. Christmas homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus chooses to come enter into our poverty and invites us to bring to Him our poverty. He has a plan by His grace to redeem us and raise us to share His glory.

December 17, 2023. Third Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christians always have reason to rejoice because God is with us and is working all things for our good, even if we don't like everything that is happening now.

December 10, 2023. Second Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how the one thing God needs us to do to help hasten His coming is to permit Him to come into our lives. We can level the road by inviting Him to remove our sin.

December 3, 2023. First Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God comes to us through the good, the bad, and the ugly, inviting us to turn to Him. By seeking Him in every situation we will be watching and ready when He comes again.

November 26, 2023. Christ the King Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to live like He lived on earth, loving the poor and outcast, so that we can live like Him in heaven, reigning in eternal, justice, love, and peace!

November 19, 2023. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God entrusts us with many gifts and we will need to offer an accounting one day of how we used those gifts. Jesus models how to entrust oneself fully to the Father.

November 12, 2023. 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come back. We can experience His coming now through prayer and be ready with a strong relationship with Him and a life that He works through when He comes.

November 5, 2023. 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus calls us to be people of integrity in our words and actions. By letting Jesus transform every aspect of our lives, everything about us will communicate His love to the world and make Him known.

October 29, 2023. 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus exhorts us to love God above all and our neighbor as ourselves. By putting God first, we open ourselves to receive God's love, which we can then share with others.

October 22, 2023. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God invites us to make a gift of all that we are (good, bad, and the ugly) to Him. We come from Him, belong to Him, and are destined for eternity with Him.

October 15, 2023. 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is doing everything He can to save us, but needs our cooperation. God respects our freedom, yet desires to bless us abundantly with His heavenly banquet.

October 8, 2023. 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to be co-laborers in the vineyard of His father. We have freedom to walk away or join Him and produce fruit worthy of eternal life.

October 1, 2023. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how we are always free to choose to follow Christ. No matter what happened yesterday, we can now choose to follow the Lord and experience His love and mercy.

September 24, 2023. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God continues to seek us out and offer us His generous love. The moment to respond to His invitation is now.

September 17, 2023. 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time about how God has forgiven us much, much more than we have a need to forgive others. By forgiving others we open ourselves to His infinite mercy and forgiveness.

September 10, 2023. 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how if you agree to be courageous, you can level up in your friendships. And, if you agree to be open to feedback instead of defensive, we can grow personally and in our friendships.

September 3, 2023. 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to take up our cross. We don't have to like the cross offered to us but we can choose to embrace it with love, knowing that Jesus is right there with us.

August 27, 2023. 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites Peter and each of us to answer the question of how He is. He then reveals in His light, who we are and the path He has for us.

August 20, 2023. 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus highlights the faith and perseverance of the Canaanite woman. We persevere faithfully in prayer, acknowledging Jesus power and goodness to give us what we need at the right moment.

August 13, 2023. 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how it is in the face of difficulty that Jesus invites us to step out in faith. Jesus draws us through our desire and is with us every step of the way.

July 30, 2023. 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how putting other things first will always fall flat. Giving up all for Jesus is the most fulfilling and we find that He is the One who gave all for me.

July 23, 2023. Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how our lives and world are complex, with both weeds and wheat. Acknowledging the weeds allows us to see reality more clearly and be able to receive the goodness of the wheat even more.

July 9, 2023. Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus invites us to follow Him and accept His yoke whatever it is, knowing He is right there with us.