Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail Whenever you want to draw lines in order to mark who is outside the kingdom and who is inside, always remember: Jesus is on the other side of the line!  frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Jesus calls them into a circle around him - we infer the circle from the placing of the child in the middle - and teaches by word and deed. 

Send us Fan Mail Both narratively and geographically, today’s Gospel stands at a crossroads. It’s right in the middle of Mark, almost exactly halfway through the story. 

Send us Fan Mail As if he could understand Hebrew, Jesus said to the man Ephphetha. "Be opened" is not addressed to the ears; it is a command to the heart. When the heart opens, immediately the ears are unplugged and the tongue is loosed.

Send us Fan Mail Pope Francis quotes the 19th-century composer Gustav Mahler, who said, "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

Send us Fan Mail I have Mass on Sunday at Church of the Holy Spirit in Highland, MI. This is revised version of the homily for the parish Mass.

Send us Fan Mail The protesting disciples do not rightly perceive the flesh of which Jesus speaks. They see only Jesus' flesh; they do not see "the Word become flesh," the Good News of God dwelling among us.

Send us Fan Mail As Mary proclaimed in the Magnificat, “God has remembered his promise of mercy.”This promise is being fulfilled in Mary.

Send us Fan Mail "No one has ever seen God," (John 1:18)  but in Jesus we see the human face of God who desires to gather us.  Jesus is coming into our midst as the one who is giving himself away so that we might have life and have it abundantly.

Send us Fan Mail Jesus identifies the bread of God with himself: “I am the bread of life.” In that deepest descent into the world of flesh, suffering and death, a new order of love, healing and life is unfolding.

Send us Fan Mail Taking the loaves and giving thanks, Jesus rejoices in the abundance that God has given and distributes the bread to all until they are satisfied. 

Send us Fan Mail “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” Jesus is  physically moving the disciples - getting into the boat symbolizes the journey - to a new place, to a new way of seeing and understanding.

Send us Fan Mail "They went out and proclaimed that all should repent"  The twelve, symboliz­ing the twelve tribes of Israel, are sent out primarily to create an alter­native community based on a new teaching about divine holiness.

Send us Fan Mail Jesus is calling his own family to remember that they are part of a larger family; they are children of Abraham. Jesus does not find the faith of Abraham in the synagogue at Nazareth. He is amazed at their unbelief.

Send us Fan Mail In combining the saving/healing of these two daughters, as a story within a story,  Mark is teaching us that our lives are all connected.

Send us Fan Mail Perhaps Mark is showing us that no matter what stands against him, Jesus’ faith is not based on what is happening around him, but rests secure in the knowledge that he is the beloved one of God.

Send us Fan Mail The Kingdom of God  spreads swiftly, invisibly, often underground. It’s more wild than “noble,” more undomesticated weed than domesticated crop, more helpful to birds than to kings.

Send us Fan Mail “Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them.”  Henri Nouwen reflects on these four verbs of the Eucharist In his book, “The Life of the Beloved.” 

Send us Fan Mail “Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” “I am” is the divine name revealed to Moses at the burning bush. "with you" is placed within the divine name itself.  We are living within the very life of God. 

Send us Fan Mail Through the gift of the Holy Spirit we get to participate actively as conscious and knowing beings within God’s own creative act. 

Send us Fan Mail On the feast of the Ascension, the book of the Gospel draws to a close, but the story does not come to an end. Now we go forth to live the Gospel and tell the Good News, not found in a book, but written on our hearts.

Send us Fan Mail God loves everything, totally, completely, perfectly, absolutely. Peter was blown away by this discovery: “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.”

Send us Fan Mail There is no us and them; in Christ, we are all connected.       Heather McGhee TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_c_mcghee_racism_has_a_cost_for_everyone?language=en

Send us Fan Mail To be in relationship with the Good Shepherd Is also to be in relationship with each other. In the English language, there is no separate singular form of the word sheep . We are saved as a people, not as individuals.

Send us Fan Mail The evangelist means to tell the readers that resurrection from the dead is more than a mere spiritual event. The whole person is redeemed, not only his or her spirit.  What is saved is not a bloodless soul but our whole life-history, our flesh and blood, everything we have been.