Catholic Jacks Podcast

May 8, 2022. 4th Sunday in Easter (and Mother's Day!) homily about how God the Father holds us in His hand. Our mothers help reveal God's care for us.

May 1, 2022. 3rd Sunday of Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Peter knows he needs the Lord so much that he is willing to jump into the sea. Peter knows that Jesus is drawing him and will catch him. We are invited to trust and take a step out in faith, knowing that the Lord will always catch us.

April 24, 2022. 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is able and desires to heal all of us, even if we do not experience physical healing here on earth. More importantly, Jesus gives His Church His power to forgive sins for spiritual healing.

April 17, 2022. Easter homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ is alive, not just 2,000 years ago but also today. He speaks and is active, inviting us to know Him and be renewed in hope.

April 16, 2022. Easter Vigil homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how baptism makes us a new creation. God wants to transform us from the inside out by His grace to make us His beloved sons and daughters.

April 14, 2022. Holy Thursday (Mass of the Lord's Supper) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus establishes a new covenant in His blood. A covenant renews our family bond and the priesthood makes it possible for the people of God.

April 10, 2022. Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus desired to show His love to His disciples more than He desired to avoid pain and suffering. He freely embraced the cross with love to be with us.

April 3, 2022. 5th Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus responds with love and compassion to the woman caught in adultery. He looks at her and us differently and invites us to forgive ourselves.

April 3, 2022. 5th Sunday of Lent (year A readings) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus has power over life and death and shares this divine power with us in baptism.

March 27, 2022. 4th Sunday of Lent (year A readings) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus comes to enlighten us so that we can learn to see things as He does.

March 20, 2022. 3rd Sunday in Lent (year A readings) homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus asks the woman at the well for a drink because He is thirsting for her heart. As she opens her heart and allows herself to be known, Jesus pours into her the living water of His love.

March 13, 2022. 2nd Sunday in Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how our final destiny is not here on earth but in heaven. God gives the disciples a glimpse of the glory to come with the Transfiguration of Jesus to encourage them for the suffering to come.

March 6, 2022. 1st Sunday of Lent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus chooses to go to the desert so that we would never be alone in our temptation. With Jesus by our side and the power of Scripture, we can turn to the Father and allow the difficulties to make us stronger.

March 2, 2022. Ash Wednesday homily of Fr. Matt Lowry about how God doesn't wants our whole heart as we are. We do not need to wait until we are perfect, but by coming to God as we are, He perfect us.

February 20, 2022. 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus' invitation to forgive is meant to be a healing process that opens us up further to His love.

February 13, 2022. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ invites us to lean into Him in difficult times. We find Him on the cross with us, allowing us to blessed by His presence, in good times and in bad.

February 6, 2022. Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry (at the AZ host site for SEEK22 Conference) about how God calls Peter, who is a sinful man, because all God has are sinful men to choose from. Our sin actually draws God close to us, and invites us to depend on Him completely.

January 30, 2022. 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us salvation and awaits our response. Jesus cites two examples of "outsiders" from the Old Testament who respond. We are never beyond Jesus' reach of salvation.

January 23, 2022. 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ announces Himself as the jubilee of God, paying the forgiveness of debts and working to unite His family through His Body, the Church.

January 16, 2022. 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God desires union with us as we are. He desires to come into our imperfect ordinariness with His supernatural grace and do something incredible.

January 2, 2022. Epiphany homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is the fulfillment of what we search for. The search demands something of us, and yet however much we give, God gives more.

December 26, 2021. Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph homily about how God has given us our family as the means to perfect us. We are not to compare ourselves to the Holy Family, but to allow them into our house, so that we can one day be welcomed into the Father's house.

December 25, 2021. Christmas homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about Jesus' lineage reveals that He chooses to enter an imperfect family. Our own families and story are imperfect and that is exactly why Jesus chooses out of love to come and be with us with His peace and healing.

December 19, 2021. 4th Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how women are a blessing from God and Mary is the greatest. Mary brings Jesus with her, whether to Elizabeth or to us.

December 12, 2021. 3rd Sunday in Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how John the Baptist tells us that Jesus is coming with His winnowing fan to sift that which endures and that which will pass away.