Fr. Lampe’s Podcast

We are blessed to be in the United States of America where we can practice our faith. It’s important for us to fulfill our civic duty and keep our nation the great place that it is. Let us vote Yes on Amendment 3. Please listen to my homily to learn more!

As we celebrate the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, we are mindful of the sacrifices that they made, but also the strength and joy and love that they experienced in their relationship with the Lord motivating them to share Him with others. Consider also the question that Jesus asked in the gospel passage. Who do you say that I am? Listen to my homily to learn more!

Here is a brief reflection upon the spiritual journey of discipleship and our readings for the 13th Sunday in ordinary time. Please listen to learn more!

St. John the Baptist was the precursor and the one who prepared the way for the coming of the Messiah. Listen to my homily to learn more about how we can prepare the way for the Lord to come more deeply into our hearts.

We are called to courageously live out our faith, and as we are also recalling Father’s Day in a special way, we recall how fathers are to courageously live out their faith. Listen to this reflection to learn more!

Prayer is powerful. But sometimes we struggle to persevere, sometimes we struggle to believe that the Lord will answer our prayer prayers. Listen to my homily to learn more about the power of prayer.

As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are reminded of the love of God that is everlasting. We are called to love God in return. Listen to my homily to learn more!

Our Lord, Jesus Christ reveals His love to us through the gift of Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist and through His Most Sacred Heart. These two celebrations help us to understand our Lord’s love for us and the connection between the two. Let us respond to His love by loving Him in return. Listen to my homily to learn more.

Christ reveals his love to us, do the gift of himself and the most holy Eucharist. When we honor him and adore him and praise him, we love him in return. Listen to my Harmony to learn more.

As we grow in relationship with God, He reveals more of himself to us. Each person of the Trinity desires to have a personal relationship with each one of us. Listen to my homily to learn more!

What would it be like to hear from the Apostles about their experience in the upper room when the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost? What would it be like to hear a trusted friend tell you about their own personal experience of encountering God? Listen to my homily to hear about a recent experience that I had.

Jesus tells his disciples to go, therefore and make disciples of all nations. He is commissioning them and us to evangelize the world. The disciples do not immediately follow this command as they are not yet ready to do so, but once they receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, they immediately follow through on this great commissioning listen to my homily to learn more.

Mothers make many sacrifices for their children and love them unconditionally. This gives us a little glimpse of God‘s love for us. Please listen to my homily to learn more.

I love being a priest. Our Good Shepherd shares His ministry with men so that his grace may be distributed to His whole flock. Let us foster vocations to the priesthood. Listen to my homily to learn more.

As the disciples are traveling on the road to Emmaus, they may not realize it, but they are actually participating in the celebration of the Mass. Listen to my homily to find out why I make that claim and what a great blessing the Mass is for us.

Our Lord is truly present in the most Holy Eucharist. He’s eager to be united with us and bless us in Holy Communion. Listen to my homily to learn more.

Unfortunately, I did not save the recording of my homily for this Sunday. So, I reconstructed the main elements of that homily and expanded a little bit upon it. Please listen to this reconstructed homily to learn more about the Mercy of God!

If we think about the moments of joy that we’ve experienced in our lives, it often includes a sense of surprise for our benefit and love. Listen to my homily to learn more about this and how we can set a course for joy using the acronym GPS.!

Have you heard of Clare Crockett before she was born in the 1980s became an actress then had a profound encounter with the Lord during a Good Friday service. That started her journey to become a Religious Sister listen to my homily to hear her story and how God has a personal love for each one of us.

Will you let Jesus wash you? When Peter objects to Jesus washing his feet, Jesus tells him that unless he lets Jesus wash his feet, he will not have a shared in the inheritance. Jesus wants to wash us too. Will you let Him? Listen to my homily to understand what this means more clearly.

This Lenten season we have focused on relationship with the Lord and staying in good relationship with the Lord. We do that by avoiding temptation, which helps us avoid sin. We accept the Lord‘s encouragement and draw strength from it to continue in good relationship with Him. We include in part of our prayers, relational or conversational prayer, allowing ourselves to listen to the Lord and hear...

Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. This was a physical resurrection, but our Lord wants to offer us a spiritual resurrection. When we commit mortal sin, we spiritually die. And we need the grace of the sacrament of reconciliation to be raised up again in our spiritual lives. Listen to my homily to learn more.

God wants to love us all the way into heaven, but we have to cooperate with his grace to get there. Listen to my homily to learn more!

We’re given a model of prayer with our gospel passage of the woman at the well. We can pull out certain elements that make the acronym ARRR which stands for acknowledge, relate, receive, respond. Listen to my homily to learn more!

There are times in our lives, where we face difficulties and challenges, times when we feel weak and not able to follow the Lord as he calls us. Our Lord wants to strengthen us and that’s what he does for his disciples with the Transfiguration. Listen to my homily to learn more.