Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail "For Autumn and the leaves of death, we give you thanks O Lord."

Send us Fan Mail "We wanted our Bible to reflect life. In life you are not given the chance to erase your mistakes. Your only choice is to admit the mistake and then move on. In our Bible we wanted to show that, even with the mistake, the page remains a work of art.” (Fr. George Smiga, BuildingontheWord.org)

Send us Fan Mail The grumbling of the workers from the first hour reflects the grumbling of Jesus’ contemporaries who were outraged at the new thing he was beginning with his disciples: a common life that grew out of constant forgiving.

Send us Fan Mail Clinging to vengeance tortures us with our vengeance for as long as we are imprisoned by it. 

Send us Fan Mail When we forgive, we do not forget. Rather, we remember in a different way. 

Send us Fan Mail The cross is not just a singular event. It’s a statement from God that reality has a cruciform pattern.

Send us Fan Mail Jesus also calls Simon the son of Jonah. Jonah was the one who went the other way when God sent him to preach to the Ninevites, who are gentiles. Peter, like Jonah, will resist this mission to the gentiles.

Send us Fan Mail By the end of Matthew’s Gospel, the mission has changed: “Go, Make disciples of all nations." When Matthew is writing the Gospel, the Church has a mission to the Gentiles. Could it be that Matthew is making the point to his community that just as Jesus was able to understand his ministry in a more inclusive way – even of the hated, ancestral enemy of his people – the church,...

Send us Fan Mail From the FRIENDS Reunion concert at Christ the Redeemer, 2006. Words and music by Joe Dailey, copyright © 1975 Alba House Media, Canfield OH. Used with permission.

Send us Fan Mail Perhaps it is the time for the church to learn to apply the lesson of the deep communion we share with God and one another.

Send us Fan Mail "When Jesus heard that Herod had beheaded John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself." (Mt. 14:13) Let’s stop to consider what Jesus is doing; the entire passage flows from this action.

Send us Fan Mail Mary Magdalene wants to hold on to what she thinks she has lost; only in letting go, will she be able to receive the hidden treasure that God has prepared for us. "Mary Magdelen" by Janet McKenzie

Send us Fan Mail We have three more images today and I would like to suggest three words: Faith, hope and Love. 

Send us Fan Mail Whoever welcomes you, welcomes me.

Send us Fan Mail God's eye is on the sparrow.

Send us Fan Mail "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." (1 Cor. 10:17)

Send us Fan Mail During his “long and lonely” years in prison, Nelson Mandela’s passion  for the liberation of his people expanded, becoming “a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.”  He came to see “that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.”  A person who dehumanizes another is “a prisoner of hatred” and is “locked behind the bars of prejudice and narr...

Send us Fan Mail Pentecost is not so much about the power of God coming from outside us, but a releasing of the power that is already within us.

Send us Fan Mail What began in the Lord's resurrection is now ready to burst forth and flood the world through the work of the disciples.  

Send us Fan Mail When Jesus tells his disciples, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you,” he is both acknowledging their impending vulnerability and reminding them that they are not alone." (Rachel Held Evans)

Send us Fan Mail Jesus is changing the location of his father's house from the Temple to the Temple of his body. And we too, are being built Into a spiritual house.

Send us Fan Mail Pope Francis' prayer to Mary for the month of May

Send us Fan Mail In the very temple area filled with sheep on their way to slaughter, Joshua / Jesus declares there is a way out: “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.  (John 10:10)

Send us Fan Mail Here is the good news proclaimed by Luke: even though we don’t see him, Jesus comes near and walks with us.

Send us Fan Mail It’s the evening of that same first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked. (John 20:19) Once again, we find ourselves entering into the world of the text, for we, too, are locked inside our homes.