Homilies with Fr John Rutten

Do you believe in His name the person you receive, is Jesus? What does this mean?

The Church provides communal acts of worship like the Mass and helps us pray together by offering us the forms. and Jesus helps us live, by grace, the deepest ways He asks of His children.

We all have a choice to begin by looking at was is evil or what is missing Or to start from what is good, to begin with the one loaf that has been provided. What is your loaf? God can multiply from that one!

St Scholastic has her prayers answered in a very clear way and St Monica does not. Benedict must stay but Augustine can flee! None of us can flee the providence of God!

Her longing for the stars leads to longing for Christ and a vocation as a Religious who preaches love.

Do You know how salt works? I didn’t but now I do and it helped me understand how Jesus works through us when we are the “salt of the earth.” Not stuff we do but through us Jesus breaks down in others the obstacles to seeing the world and what He is doing.

Jesus is presented in the Temple 40 days after birth. The Holy Spirit was already working through Simeon and Anna. Do you have confidence image is working to bring those whom you love into the House of the Lord?

God reveals Himself over time and prepares for a Pinnacle moment. What is the Pinnacle point of Christianity? What is the top of the Mountain for you? What does God want it to be?

A few words about wanting to go back after having received Christ.

We all need people in the Church whom we are confident Christ is calling us through, but we all must grow more deeply and recognize Christ is also calling us through people in positions that call us and grow.

How do we grow in our awareness that the same proclamation made to the apostles by John the Baptist being made to us at Mass?

God Cares for you He guides you He gives you strength

When a moment strikes you, and you know it was Christ who makes all things happen…epiphany! Have you had one?

The Shepherds are given a privileged place in the people surrounding Jesus’ nativity. What can we learn from them. What do we learn from Mary?

How important to know we have a place in the heart of Our Lord: each of us are preferred. It is also good to have a person given to us such as Peter, who shows us the road.

Merry Christmas to you all from elk point, South Dakota! A joy to share this beautiful night with the people of God.

Having a desire to commit totally to Christ, her mother has other plans. However hemorrhaging happens to her mother and a request at the relics of St Agnes bring about healing of body and then of faith. Starting to give everything away, mom’s plans are not desired by the very man she desired for her daughter.

If John the Baptist is the Greatest but the least in. The Kingdom are greater, do we believe that may be us? Two simple faithful families prepared the way for significant figures in the Church to Encounter Christ. This is a method all of us can be instruments of!

Mary in uniting with God was without blemish and so for our coming union, we too must be without blemish. She helps us come out of hiding and bring ourselves to God.

When things turn on a dime.

The tail of two men who produced earthly fruit but only one prepare the fruitfulness of his soul. Are you ready?

as friends get closer, it can cause struggles as we learn more about the other. It will require us to recognize the foundation of Christ that we are standing on! We also then discover deeper aspects of people when we see them more in the eyes of God. Even the Saints we can learn more about. Learn this surprise Fr John learns about his friend Charles!

We are not alone in our work of holiness but other people’s faith is helping us, even if we don’t know who they are…we will discover in Heaven!

Advent is the season of human desire. To awaken human desire as a spur to our holiness. Remember Jesus wants to speak words to you “in private.” Do you follow Him into such a place of prayer?

Aware of the Final Coming, we are encouraged to Stay Awake or be attentive. Being attentive is understanding the heart and what is happening and why we do what we do. Then we grow in recognizing He is doing something now! (This “now” is the second coming I forgot to explain in the homily!)