Holiness for the Working Day

Slaying the Monsters: Safeguarding Your Children from Fear and Anxiety, Part 2  is a two-part talk series for parents who want to raise resilient, peaceful, and imaginative children in an fear-filled world. Using Hook & Peter Pan as a guiding story, Fr. James Searby explores how children mirror their parents' stress and how imagination, play, and wonder can heal the modern family. Drawing on psych...

Slaying the Monsters: Safeguarding Your Children from Fear and Anxiety is a two-part talk series for parents who want to raise resilient, peaceful, and imaginative children in an fear-filled world. Using Hook & Peter Pan as a guiding story, Fr. James Searby explores how children mirror their parents' stress and how imagination, play, and wonder can heal the modern family. Drawing on psychology, ne...

Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 2025

A Homily for Children 

Given on the feast of St. John Paul II

What does the Miraculous Medal reveal about the soul of woman? On this feast of St. John Paul II, Fr. Searby unites the story of the Medal's origins with the Pope's teaching on the feminine genius. Beneath the rays of Mary's open hands, we discover the quiet power of receptivity, compassion, and courage—the graces that still shape the heart of woman today.

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 2025

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year C 2025 Gospel Luke 17:5-10 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. "Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, 'Come here immed...

Feast of St. Therese 

Planning and Engaging Life Series, Meditation 1

Feast of the Exhaultation of the Cross 2025

Feast of the Holy Name of Mary 

A talk to parents 

Patronal Feast of the Basilica of St. Mary 2025

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2025   Luke 14:25-33 Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does...

Jesus' care for the possesed man in Capernaum. 

Labor Day 2025

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2025 Gospel Luke 14:1, 7-14 On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of hono...

Peace in the Storm: A Catholic Approach to Anxiety and Resilience is a journey into the heart of what it means to live with courage and calm in an anxious age. Blending psychological insight, practical tools, and the rich wisdom of the Catholic spiritual tradition, this series explores how to face fear, steady the heart, and discover resilience rooted not in self-reliance but in God's presence. Wh...