Fr. Joe Dailey

Send us Fan Mail In John, no well-informed angels rushed in to explain the missing body. Mary had expected to find at least a corpse; instead she found a void, an opening in the darkness. I have Mass on Easter Sunday Morning at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail I will be at St. Isidore this Sunday for all three Sunday morning Masses: 7:30/9:30/11:30 am;  I will preside at the 7:30/9:30 am Masses, but I will be part of the passion proclamation with several readers at all three Masses. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ I have mass on Easter Sunday  at 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM Frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Luke 22:14-23:56

Send us Fan Mail They place the woman alone beside Jesus, which, as it turns out, is exactly where Jesus wished to be. Beside the sinner.  I have Mass on Saturday, April 5, at St. Andrew, 5:00 pm I have Mass on Sunday, April 6, at St. Isidore, 7:30/9:30 am the 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed  https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail I preached a different homily at the Mass for the 2nd Scrutiny with the Elect (Catechumens), using the readings for Cycle A: John 9, the Man Blind from Birth. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033025-YearA.cfm frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail One of the characters that I think we overlook in the story is the fatted calf. Do you know how much the fatted calf weighs? About 750-800 pounds. Reconciliation is for the whole community. I have Mass on Sunday at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ I have 5:00 pm Mass on Saturday, April 5 at St. Andrew frjoe...

Send us Fan Mail The fig tree is standing in for the cross. Only by standing under the cross will we be able to understand how God is leading us out of the place of slavery and death into a land of promise and abundance. I have Mass on Sunday, March 23 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Rudolph Otto defined the sacred as “mysterium tremendum et fascinans” —a fearful and fascinating mystery. That mysterious Other who draws us almost irresistibly, at the same time fills us with awe and even dread. I have Mass on Sunday, March 16 at St. Isidore, 7:30/9:30 am at St. Andrew, 5:00 pm the 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoed...

Send us Fan Mail The devil tempts Jesus three times with the little word, "If." "If you are" is supposed to cause Jesus to doubt that he is the Son of God and feel the need to prove it. I am off this weekend. Next Sunday I will have Mass @ St. Isidore at 7:30/9:30 am and St. Andrew @ 5 pm. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail It’s the beam in our own eye that makes the world look splintered. You know how it is with pointing fingers, one is pointed, but three are pointing back at you. I have Mass on Sunday, March 2nd at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@mac.com

Send us Fan Mail The Greek word for grace is CHARIS. When Jesus builds his rhetorical crescendo, criticizing reciprocal love (even sinners do that!), the word translated as “credit” is CHARIS. The phrase is better translated, “If you love those who love you, what grace [CHARIS] is that to you?”   I am away this weekend. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Keeping my eyes fixed on Jesus, I find the center, a level ground on which to stand. Jesus is the still point in a turning world. Like a tree, planted by the water, I shall not be moved. I have Mass on Sunday, February 16 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/

Send us Fan Mail Simon Peter is all in. He is entirely present to himself; not just Simon, the big hearted, impulsive man, “If you say so, I will let down the nets.” But Peter as well, the one who will hand Jesus over out of fear: “I don’t know him!” I have Mass on Sunday, February 9 at St. Isidore, 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew, 5:00 pm frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail The child masks the power of God in apparent weakness, yet it is in just such weakness that the true power of God’s saving love is revealed.  I have Mass on Sunday, February 2, at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live streamed.  https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail I was reading about Handel’s famous “Largo” from the Opera, “Xerxes.” I found the music, sat down at the piano and played it. Reading music is a lot like reading the Word of God. Living the Word of God is like playing the notes. The music only comes alive when played, otherwise it is just black dots on lines on a page.  When the melody of God’s Word becomes the song in our lives,...

Send us Fan Mail The Fourth gospel reveals Jesus’ glory through a series of seven signs. It stands to reason that Jesus’s first public “sign” takes place at a wedding feast, for Jesus himself is the marriage of divinity and humanity. (Icon by Greta Leśko) I have Mass on Sunday, January 19 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm St. Isidore 7:30 am will be live-streamed.  https://stis...

Send us Fan Mail Like a shepherd gathering the lost, the glory of God is the sons and daughters of God coming home. (Reading Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11) I have Mass on Sunday January 12 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30/11:30 am The 7:30 am Mass is live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail There is a wonderful line in The Shack: Mack asks Jesus, “Do all roads lead to you?” He replies, “Not at all. Most roads don’t lead anywhere” – and then adds, “What it does mean that I will travel any road to find you.” (Wm. Paul Young, The Shack) I have Mass on Sunday, January 5th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worsh...

Send us Fan Mail Barbara Brown Taylor notices a change of perspective with Christmas. See how Luke describes it in today’s Gospel: “The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem  and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger." (Luke 2:16) “Everyone in the story is looking down, at a baby they could all see. The light had moved. It was coming from below, not above.” I have Mass at H...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes this story is called “The Child Jesus Lost in Jerusalem” Or “The Finding in the Temple.” Luke Timothy Johnson names this story “Jesus Teaching in the Temple.” We could look at the losses in our own lives from this perspective, and ask: “What is God trying to teach me through this experience?” I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, December 29 @ 9:30/11:30 am I have Mass o...

Send us Fan Mail In receiving the gift of God, we, in turn, become the gift. “He gave power to become children of God.” In this interim time, we must be the face of God for each other. To see those who are invisible and smile on those who feel ashamed.  I have Mass on Christmas Morning at St. Isidore @ 8:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Luke gives us Elizabeth’s response, "but Mary would have certainly spoken first. ‘Peace, Peace be with you’. And this simple greeting made something vibrate, someone, inside of Elizabeth. And in this vibration, something was said. … Which is the Good News. (Blessed Christian de Chergé, Trappist monk, 20th Century Martyr of Algeria) I have Mass on Sunday, December 22 at St. Is...

Send us Fan Mail Even Zephaniah, who has been called the “gloomiest” of the prophets, did not give devastation and judgment the last word. Zephaniah kept the last word for joy. “The LORD, your God, is in your midst,         he will rejoice over you with gladness,              and renew you in his love.” I have Mass on Sunday, December 15 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm frjoe...

Send us Fan Mail This weekend the world will gather to celebrate the restored Cathedral of Notre Dame, Our Lady of Paris, which was nearly destroyed by fire in April, 2019. . . If we can do this, if we can put aside our national interests and come together for a common good, how much more could we do together to repair the world? I am away this weekend. frjoedailey@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Pope Francis read a letter from a Ukrainian student. “When you speak of our pain, when you remember our thousand days of suffering, speak of our thousand days of love, too, because only love, faith, and hope give a real meaning to our wounds.” (Papal Audience at the Vatican, November 20) I have Mass at St. Isidore on December 1st @ 9:30/11:30 am frjoedailey@gmail.com