Fr. Jim's Weekly Homily

Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter (May 25, 2025) Total Time: 13m5s

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter (May 18, 2025) Total Time: 10m27s Full text of excerpt from Ronda's Journal and the dream her friend, Charlie Rich shared with her. 

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter (May 11, 2025) Total Time: 10m18s

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter: Total Time: 17m6s Reflection shared during homily:  You waste a lot of time, however, worrying about storms you can see forming along the horizon of your life. In the past many of the storms you had anticipated veered off in another direction, never reaching you. Although some of them did actually hit, usually they had lost much of their power by the time they...

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) April 27, 2025 Total Time: 12m54s My mercy is greater than your sins and those of the entire world. Who can measure the extent of my goodness? For you I descended from heaven to earth; for you I allowed myself to be nailed to the cross; for you I let my Sacred Heart be pierced with a lance, thus opening wide the source of mercy for you. Com...

Homily for Easter Sunday (Vigil Mass at St. Barbara parish - August 19, 2025) Total Time: 8m16 Homily of Pope Francis at the Easter Vigil at St. Peter Basilica (April 20, 2019)

Homily for the Solemn Celebration of the Lord's Passion (April 18, 2025) Total Time: 8m57s (**Please note I made a mistake and said Mark chapter 24 and should have said Matthew chapter 24**)

Homily for the Solemn Celebration of the Lord's Supper (April 17, 2025) Total Time: 10m13

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent (Recorded at the 11AM Mass - St. Aloysius, Buckley, WA on April 6, 2025) Total Time 13m58s) Angelus Message of Pope Francis (March 10, 204) Dear brothers and sisters, buongiorno ! On this fourth Sunday of Lent, the Gospel presents us with the figure of Nicodemus (cf. Jn 3:14-21), a Pharisee, “a ruler of the Jews” ( Jn 3:1). He saw the signs Jesus performed, he rec...

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of. Lent (March 23 2025) Total Time: 10m11s Meditation From Jesus Lives HERE

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (March 16, 2025) Total Time: 13m1s Peter Burak (Renewal Ministries) Video Quote from St. John Paul II If in the planning that awaits us we commit ourselves more confidently to a pastoral activity that gives personal and communal prayer its proper place, we shall be observing an essential principle of the Christian view of life: the primacy of grace. There is a tem...

Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent (March 9, 2025) Total Time: 15:14s Thought of this song that I really like while giving the homily and especially the line "you don't have to prove yourself" 

Homily for Ash Wednesday 2025 (March 5, 2025) Total Time 10m4s 

Homily for the 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time (March 2, 2025) Total Time: 15m32s

Homily for the 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 23, 2025) Total Time: 13m20s **I made a mistake and said Corrie Ten Boom was from Belgium. Belgium is a separate country. She was from Holland and from the town of Haarlem in the Netherlands.** Here is the link to Wikipedia to learn more about her. There are numerous videos on YouTube where she was giving talks or being interviewed. I was partic...

Homily for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 15, 2025) Total Time: 11:17 Quotes in the homily from the Imitation of Christ:  MY CHILD, I must be your supreme and last end, if you truly desire to be blessed. With this intention your affections, which are too often perversely inclined to self and to creatures, will be purified. For if you seek yourself in anything, you immediately fail inter...

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 9, 2025) Total Time 9m36s

Homily For The Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2025) Total Time: 12m4s Reflection I shared from the devotional "Jesus Calling" LEARN TO LAUGH at yourself more freely. Don’t take yourself or your circumstances so seriously. Relax and know that I am God with you. When you desire My will above all else, life becomes much less threatening. Stop trying to monitor My responsibilities—things that a...

Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (January 26, 2025) Total Time: 10m56

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (January 19, 2025) Total Time: 13m58s

Homily for the Baptism of the Lord (January 12, 2025) Total Time: 13m27s

Homily for Epiphany Sunday (January 5, 2025) Total Time 11::45)

Homily for the celebration of Holy Family Sunday (December 29, 2024) Total Time: 8m28s

Homily for Christmas (Vigil Mass) December 24, 2024 Total Time: 8m28s

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent (December 22, 2024) Total Time: 14m7s Advent Reflection by ALFRED DELP, SJ (Click HERE)