Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail The disciples are about to be sent out; the Risen Christ is sending them as instruments of God’s creative act, to bring God’s Shalom and healing into the world.

Send us Fan Mail Mark has hidden the resurrection in the very first chapter of the Gospel. That is why there is no resurrection at the end; the whole Gospel is filled with the presence of the risen Lord.

Send us Fan Mail In washing their feet, Jesus is challenging his disciples to do the same for each other; to see that all are equal friends. In the Kingdom, nobody is above or below in any way. 

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Send us Fan Mail conclusion of the Passion, chapter 15. Song: Crucem Tuam, Taizé

Send us Fan Mail Jesus had been speaking of his impending death since the middle of the Gospel, but the Twelve struggled to conceive of a kingdom that would begin not with the death of their enemies, but with the death of their friend. 

Send us Fan Mail The Passion of St. Mark, chapter 14. Song: Stay Here and Keep Watch, Taizé.

Send us Fan Mail conclusion of chapter 14. Song: If I have been the source of pain. C. Maud Battersby

Send us Fan Mail Were you there sung by Joe Dailey, Mari Reyes, Don Martus. 

Send us Fan Mail We see Jesus when we willing to follow him, giving our lives away in love.

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Send us Fan Mail Nicodemus, a teacher of Israel, comes to Jesus, the light of the world, at night.

Send us Fan Mail In offering his whole self to us - Body and blood - Jesus is renewing the Sinai covenant. We are being turned into the new temple that is able to participate in the life of God, who is coming out to us, here and now. 

Send us Fan Mail On the mountain, we realize that humanity and divinity are really two sides of the same coin. Humanity is meant to become by grace, what divinity is by nature. We, too, are meant to shine with the radiance of divine light.

Send us Fan Mail Just as it was for Jesus in the wilderness - the angels waited on him, and he was with the wild beasts - so is true for us: both Heaven and Earth are within us.

Send us Fan Mail Every year God says to us: “Lech lecha,” luring us into the Lenten wilderness beyond the confining boundaries of culture, kin and your parent’s house, so that we might once again discover our heart in the heart of God. Video of this Homily https://youtu.be/QyJiM8D458A

Send us Fan Mail Living inside a community of love is always costly. “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” St. Paul encourages us, and then  goes on to show us what that looks like: “not seeking my own benefit but that of the many.” (1 Cor 10:33)

Send us Fan Mail By reading Job next to Mark, we begin to grasp the extent of the salvation that is happening here. The world is, in fact, alienated from itself and without hope. But with Jesus, the state of things comes back to plumb, people sink into rest. The evening and the morning are no longer full of disappointment but are overflowing with messianic salvation.

Send us Fan Mail At the end of today’s Gospel, Mark returns us to the theme of authority and teaching. Now we know that he is writing about the kind of teaching which liberates, which discerns the demonic powers which oppress people and seeks to bring about new beginnings.

Send us Fan Mail Notice that what Jesus is doing is itself a sign that the kingdom of God is breaking in. Someone – John the Baptist – has been lost. In gathering a new people, Jesus is ushering in God’s kingdom, a new economy In which no one is expelled excluded, or handed over.

Send us Fan Mail We are coming face to face with some very disturbing images of ourselves. But Jesus turns towards us, looks into us, and asks: “What are you looking for?” Jesus comes to show us the way out.

Send us Fan Mail In these few short verses, Mark has given us an overview of the entire story of Jesus, and Jesus has not yet spoken a single word.

Send us Fan Mail When you walk by God’s shining radiance, then you shall be radiant at what you see. The meaning of this glorious feast, Epiphany, literally means “to shine upon.”

Send us Fan Mail If we have lived long at all, we know that no one can love us like family, and no one can hurt us like family. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

Send us Fan Mail God appears in, with, under, and as flesh, with a human body, a body made from the same stardust that makes up all other bodies.