Daily IVE Homilies

Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany,where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served,while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oilmade from genuine aromatic nardand anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Th...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyWhen Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalemand came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them,"Go into the village opposite you,and immediately you will find an ass tethered,and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you, reply,'The master has need of them.'T...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyMany of the Jews who had come to Maryand seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Phariseesand told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Phariseesconvened the Sanhedrin and said,“What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him,and the Romans will com...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyThe Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?”The Jews answered him,“We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”Jesus answered them,“Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, ‘You are gods”‘?If it calls...

No Greater Delight is a daily Marian podcast meant to start the day with a Marian touch. After examining the Marian feasts celebrated throughout the world on a given day, Fr. Nate offers a brief reflection to help make our love for Our Lady concrete in daily living. The title "No Greater Delight" is inspired by a homily of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, wherein he expresses his joy in preac...

The angel Gabriel was sent from Godto a town of Galilee called Nazareth,to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,of the house of David,and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said,“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”But she was greatly troubled at what was saidand pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her,“Do not be afraid, Mary,for you have...

Jesus said to the Pharisees:“I am going away and you will look for me,but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”So the Jews said,“He is not going to kill himself, is he,because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”He said to them, “You belong to what is below,I belong to what is above. You belong to this world,but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you...

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses...

John 11 1-45https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032226.cfmNow many of the Jews who had come to Maryand seen what he had done began to believe in him. All Christians Must Forgivehttps://youtu.be/bmadS5StpvM?si=taU4RF8m_2umOySpHow To Examine Your Soul?https://youtu.be/dGe1JkqoDiY?si=mmnJX09zckv4KeYALearn more about the Institute of the Incarnate Wordhttps://iveamerica.org/Looking for Catholic art...

Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said,"This is truly the Prophet."Others said, "This is the Christ."But others said, "The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David's familyand come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"So a division occurred in the crowd because of him. Some of them...

Jesus moved about within Galilee;he did not wish to travel in Judea,because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,"Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say...

00:00 Intro00:12 Gospel01:37 HomilyJacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,but before they lived together,she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,yet unwilling to expose her to sham...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus answered the Jews: "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work."For this reason they tried all the more to kill him,because he not only broke the sabbathbut he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God. Jesus answered and said to them,"Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own,but only what he sees...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyThere was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gatea pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying thereand knew that he had been ill for a long time, he sa...

00:00 Intro00:21 Gospel02:08 HomilyAt that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. For Jesus himself testifiedthat a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him,since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast;for they themselves had gone to the feast. Then he returned to Cana in Galilee,where he had made the water wine. Now there was...

00:00 Intro00:08 Gospel01:31 HomilyJohn 9 1-41https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031526.cfmAll Christians Must Forgivehttps://youtu.be/bmadS5StpvM?si=taU4RF8m_2umOySpHow To Examine Your Soul?https://youtu.be/dGe1JkqoDiY?si=mmnJX09zckv4KeYALearn more about the Institute of the Incarnate Wordhttps://iveamerica.org/Looking for Catholic articles to read?https://iveamerica.org/blog/Are you in the U...

00:00 Intro00:12 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus addressed this parableto those who were convinced of their own righteousnessand despised everyone else.“Two people went up to the temple area to pray;one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself,‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity —greedy, dishonest, adultero...

00:00 Intro00:28 Gospel01:24 HomilyOne of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,"Which is the first of all the commandments?"Jesus replied, "The first is this:Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this:You shall love your neighbor as you...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus was driving out a demon that was mute,and when the demon had gone out,the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons,he drives out demons."Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them,"Every kingdom divided against itself...

00:00 Intro00:14 Gospel00:56 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 Intro00:05 Gospel02:20 HomilyPeter approached Jesus and asked him,“Lord, if my brother sins against me,how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a kingwho decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the accounting,a debtor was brought before...

00:00 Intro00:18 Gospel04:40 HomilyAll Christians Must Forgivehttps://youtu.be/bmadS5StpvM?si=taU4RF8m_2umOySpHow To Examine Your Soul?https://youtu.be/dGe1JkqoDiY?si=mmnJX09zckv4KeYALearn more about the Institute of the Incarnate Wordhttps://iveamerica.org/Looking for Catholic articles to read?https://iveamerica.org/blog/Are you in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Suriname?https://www.youtu...

00:00 Intro00:11 Gospel03:12 HomilyTax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus,but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying,"This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."So to them Jesus addressed this parable."A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father,'Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.'So th...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,put a hedge around it,dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near,he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But the tenants seized the...

00:00 Intro00:20 Gospel01:37 HomilyJesus said to the Pharisees:"There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linenand dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scrapsthat fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died,he wa...