Homilies with Fr John Rutten

People are blind and we are called to have patience with the ignorant. How do we help? Add more points of awareness in order to see the truth more clearly.

DDays is homecoming week. We consider this University a home because of the relationships we built. Ultimately our Home is Heaven and that too is a result of a relationship with Jesus. What gets in our way from saying Yes to Him!

When your lost, it’s sometimes easy to keep going forward. However, at a certain point one has to stop and turn around.

The St Thomas More Newman Center celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first Mass offered! Friendship, marriage, games, study, difficulties, retreats, and sacraments. All the ways God has blessed his people!

We need to create cultures that cause the best for people to happen and make it difficulty for bad things to happen. This is the case in our state.

How do miracles play a role in the life of Jesus and the Church? What is the reason for them and why are there not more? Have you experience one?

Worth listening to

Is a Christian different in the way of operating in the world?

The 12 Tribes were dispersed and further from the Lord. Joshua gathered them together again. The Disciples were given a great gift to feed the family (Eucharist) many left but the 12 Apostles stayed. We all are now tempted to move out but God gathers us. To stay is possible when we look at our history and the miracles we’ve seen.

Life hacks, Rules for Life, or hearts of life…man is always attempting to attain qualities it does not possess. Jesus desires to give them to us in His very self! Do you receive, aware of this? What do you say to His words?

Explaining this weekend‘s reason for posting to homilies.

We are made to come back into relationship with God through food!

Why is it? The Eucharist isn’t more central to peoples lives? No one has told them! They don’t see it effect in their life. They don’t have a great enough need or an awareness of their spiritual hunger.

Wealth isn’t the problem. Losing the relationship with God is, and this can happen no matter how much one possesses. What is your relationship with things?

How do you respond when corrected? Our initial response is important to pay attention to. Why does it matter? Listen in…

What do circular saws and bells have in common? Listen in…

How often we want to run from the storms, but Jobe and the apostles and our own experience revealed to us that God addresses us in the midst of the storms. Neil, stay still, and ask for him.

A visit to the Rockies and Mass for Summer Projects.

People have an intuition that blood connection is a means of something mysterious yet human. The source of connecting to a “life source.” All of this is pointing toward what God will do by offering the Body and Blood of his son Jesus.

The visitor has had an Important role in human culture and for the Christian it is a window into understanding the Visitor, who is God. This first journey of Mary, and God within her, to visit Elizabeth is the beginning of our own experience of the same dynamic: God visits through a people!

Homily on Solemnity of Pentecost

The wedding homily for James and Kenna Kleinschmit. Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Bow Valley, NE on May 18, 2024

Ever been on a spiritual high point, only to end up feeling like you’re starting over again? The Apostles have been on a rollercoaster of Grace! After the most I credible fact: He Rose from the Dead…they don’t get their question answered and He leaves. Now they start again and need to await His Power.

Love is connected to “law” in today’s readings: to be upright and to follow the commandments is the request of God. But he wants us to do so by receiving His love and remaining in His goodness. Do you know His goodness as the means of being able to live the law?

Jesus tells us to abide in him. To abide is not a passive reality but to stick with, hold on to, obey. He is saying this in the midst of the Last Supper, where he institutes the Eucharist and tells the apostles to do the same. For us to abide in Jesus is to hold on to the celebration of the Eucharist. And to do so is to hold on to the whole of the Mass.