Corpus Christi University Parish Homilies

Father Jeremy Miller: “Our call as Christian people is to always bring people that are on the outside into the fold. The leper was really ostracized.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “Do you know this Jesus? Do you know this unconditional friend of ours who holds us in his hands when we need him most? Is this the way you related to him?”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We can know a lot about God, but not know God. We can know a lot about Jesus, but not be in a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “God’s love is bigger than our small grievances.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We can’t do this alone. We cannot reach our full potential as human beings without relationships.”

Fr. Alan Zobler O.S.F.S.: “Let’s make the world know just how much we’ve been loved and how much our God loves our world.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We have the opportunity to begin 2021 to forge a new path, to offer gifts to Jesus, the gift of our heart.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “While Joseph didn’t talk the talk from a biblical perspective, he certainly walked the walk.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “The quality of the wrapping of the gift is not always a great indicator of how great the gift is.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “We’re reminded that in the imperfect, small, less-than-ideal circumstances of that stable 2,000 years ago, God did something extraordinary.”

Father Philip Smith: “I think most of us have some kind of fear of being alone. We like keeping busy, oftentimes because we’re afraid of what will bubble up within us.”

Deacon Justin Moor: “By looking for God in different faces and places God could be hiding this Advent, we will be preparing to open the greatest Christmas gift: the gift of finding the fullness of God in our lives.”

Father Jeremy Miller: "How do we close the gap between incongruent or disconnected parts? Religion is nothing else but the attempt to find the glue to bind together heaven and earth, God and man, and by extension that which binds us together."

Father Jeremy Miller:  “I think it’s a challenge for all of us to try and find what’s redeeming always in the circumstances that life throws at us.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “This feast is meant to remind us that our primary allegiance is to Jesus as Lord, as king of all creation and Lord of our hearts.”

Father Philip Smith: “Prayer can provide stability for the stressful moments, the unexpected moments where we have to make difficult decisions.” 3 lessons about making good, long-term decisions:  Take time to pause and reflect, ask the bigger questions. Prayer can provide stability for the stressful moments, the unexpected moments where we have to make difficult decisions. We need to recharge...

Father Jeremy Miller: “The fundamental vocation of every single Christian person is to become holy like Jesus, to become a saint.”

Father Jeremy Miller: "Unless we have an authentic, healthy self-love, it hurts how we love others. We project onto our love of neighbor the ways that other people have wounded us in terms of loving us."

Fr. Alan Zobler, OSFS: “In our spiritual lives, time and again, that’s what we are asked to do as disciples.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “Are we going to decline the invitation that God wants for us?”

Deacon Justin Moor: “Instead of rejecting Jesus from our lives, we are meant to respond by making him the foundation of our lives around which everything else is built.”

Father Jeremy Miller: “Words can make us feel more virtuous than we actually are. Humility and integrity are the remedies.”

Father Jeremy Miller: "Let God decide how he bestows his blessings and his generosity and his grace. Let's live from that spiritual truth."

Father Jeremy Miller: "Forgiveness is making a choice, choosing to let go of the bitterness, resentment, hatred and anger that we feel about someone that has hurt us. Often, we have a right to have it, but it's choosing to let go of that right to transcend and overcome and rise above that for the sake of our own inner peace and ultimately to want the good for the other person."

Father Jeremy Miller: “If we have to say something hard to someone, we do it in the most loving way possible and making sure that we’re first committed to our own humility and our own integrity before doing so.”