Daily IVE Homilies

00:00 Intro00:22 Gospel02:03 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other,or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,what you will eat or drink,or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven,where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your w...

00:00 Intro00:14 Gospel01:05 HomilyJesus said to his disciples: "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. "This is how you are to pray: 'Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in he...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:42 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Take care not to perform righteous deedsin order that people may see them;otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you,as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streetsto win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But...

00:00 Intro00:22 Gospel01:14 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"You have heard that it was said,You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemiesand pray for those who persecute you,that you may be children of your heavenly Father,for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who...

00:00 Intro00:28 Gospel01:14 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"You have heard that it was said,An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek,turn the other one to him as well. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic,hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into servic...

00:00 Intro00:29 Gospel01:22 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you,everyone who looks at a woman with lusthas already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin,tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your membersthan to have your whole body thrown into Gehenn...

00:00 Intro00:19 Gospel01:26 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses thatof the scribes and Pharisees,you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."You have heard that it was said to your ancestors,You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brotherwill be liable to judgment,and...

00:00 Intro00:16 Gospel00:51 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letterwill pass from the law,until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandm...

00:00 Intro00:17 Gospel01:03 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anythingbut to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;it is set on a lampstand,...

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.”And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order...

00:00 Intro00:18 Gospel01:34 HomilyAfter Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter,“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”He then said to Simon Peter a second time,“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”Simon Peter answered him, “Yes...

00:00 Intro00:22 Gospel01:30 HomilyLifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:"I pray not only for these,but also for those who will believe in me through their word,so that they may all be one,as you, Father, are in me and I in you,that they also may be in us,that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me,so that they may be one, as we are on...

00:00 Intro00:23 Gospel01:33 HomilyLifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying:“Holy Father, keep them in your namethat you have given me,so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me,and I guarded them, and none of them was lostexcept the son of destruction,in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming...

00:00 Intro00:30 Gospel02:16 HomilyJesus raised his eyes to heaven and said,“Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,just as you gave him authority over all people,so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life,that they should know you, the only true God,and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on ea...

00:00 Intro00:17 Gospel01:13 HomilyThe disciples said to Jesus,"Now you are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech. Now we realize that you know everythingand that you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God."Jesus answered them, "Do you believe now? Behold, the hour is coming and has arrivedwhen each of you will be scatte...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Thus it is written that the Christ would sufferand rise from the dead on the third dayand that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,would be preached in his nameto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you;but stay in the cityuntil you are...

00:00 Intro00:21 Gospel01:49 HomilyMary set outand traveled to the hill country in hasteto a town of Judah,where she entered the house of Zechariahand greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,the infant leaped in her womb,and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,cried out in a loud voice and said,“Most blessed are you among women,and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does...

00:00 Intro00:05 Gospel01:30 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn,while the world rejoices;you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived;but when she has given birth to a child,she no longer remembers the pain because of her joythat a child has been born into the world. So yo...

00:00 Intro00:22 Gospel01:12 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“A little while and you will no longer see me,and again a little while later and you will see me.”So some of his disciples said to one another,“What does this mean that he is saying to us,‘A little while and you will not see me,and again a little while and you will see me,’and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”So they said, “What is...

00:00 Intro00:17 Gospel00:50 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own,but he will speak what he hears,and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me,because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everythi...

00:00 Intro00:15 Gospel01:06 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"Now I am going to the one who sent me,and not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes he will...

00:00 Intro00:19 Gospel01:14 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,he will testify to me. And you also testify,because you have been with me from the beginning."I have told you this so that you may not fall away. They will expel you from the synagogues;in fact, the hour is coming wh...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:“Whoever loves me will keep my word,and my Father will love him,and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words;yet the word you hear is not minebut that of the Father who sent me.“I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit,whom the Father will send in...

00:00 Intro00:18 Gospel00:56 HomilyJesus said to his disciples:"If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own;but because you do not belong to the world,and I have chosen you out of the world,the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you,'No slave is greater than his master.'If they persecuted me, they will a...