Our Lady of Lourdes Podcast

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done April 10, 2022 Fr. Brian Larkin 
This week’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041022.cfm 
The Lord’s Prayer: https://www.usccb.org/prayers/our-father “You and I are not like other people; we are bought by the blood of Christ.” —Fr. Brian Larkin Holy Land: Topography & landscape St. Jerome calls the Holy Land the...

5th Sunday of Lent | Identity, Shame, & The Healing Power of Confession | Fr. Sean Conroy by Lourdes Denver

The Prodigal Son: Jn 9:1-41 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/reading... Homily 1: Basic Message of Reconciliation “The Good News that you have a place at the Father’s table. If you don’t know that, this is the good news of Christianity.” —Fr. Brian Larkin Origen’s 2nd commentary of Leviticus 2: “Even to the end of the world, the day of reconciliation is today.” https://www.google.com/books/edition/.....

3rd Sunday of Lent Deacon Tom: True North & Continual Metanoia Exodus 17 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/17?3 The Miracles of Water Exodus 7: 14–25: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/7 Moses’s Staff turns the river to blood Exodus 14: Crossing the Red Sea, dry shod https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/14 Miracles of food: Manna from Heaven & quail in the evening https://bible.usccb.org/bib...

Homily #1: Transfiguration is at the top of the list for the richness of text. Homework for the week: Feast of Booths—A Jewish Feast https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/sukkot-feast-booths-known-some-feast-tabernacles Homily #2 Christian Hope Luke 9: Worthy of prayer https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031322.cfm “I was wrestling with loneliness and hardship, and I looked out into the ocean....

Simple signs tell you what did or didn’t happen, such as when a child still has ashes on their forehead three days after Ash Wednesday. Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030622.cfm St. Luke 4:1–13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/4?1 David and Goliath: a premonition of the Tempting in the Desert: 1 Samuel 17 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1samuel/17 Into the Desert Fasting...

Bearing Good Fruit Parables: “Jesus Style” “The blind man cannot lead the blind man. You cannot trust the man who removes his glasses to get you safely to your destination. He or she cannot see, so they cannot find the way.” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk “Each week, Jesus brings your spiritual vision to 20/20 again for the next six days. Not the priests, but Jesus Christ.” —Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk “I would...

2 Latin Words: Ressentire: To feel something over again—origin of “resentment” https://translate.google.com/?sl=la&tl=en&text=ressentire&op=translate&hl=en Respectare: “To look at something again,” or, “to look back”—origin of “respect” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/respecto#Latin 1st Reading: 1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1samuel/26?2 The Book of Samuel is all about...

To Taste Is Wisdom Sapore—Latin for “to taste”— An axiom or phrase that existed in the early Church said, “A man is truly wise when all things taste to him as they truly are.” Jeremiah 17—https://bible.usccb.org/bible/jeremiah/17 reflects Psalm 1—https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/1 “To understand the entire book of Psalms, you have to look at it through the lens of Psalm 1.”—Fr. Brian Psalm 1 t...

“I was in my room, on my knees, crying—to be honest, I don’t do it a lot, like Fr. Brian, but I was on my knees, and I just couldn’t resist anymore. I was on my knees, in my room, in complete darkness, and I was asking God, ‘I don’t have anymore plans for my life. What I had planned, it has been crashed. So I don’t know what to do. You have to tell me.’ He did. Ten years later, here I am in front...

-Each and every one of us in this room is called to something amazing. Each and every one of us is called to something unique. Something that only you can fulfill in the Body of Christ. Each and every one of us has a mission, a specific mission that God calls us to. A specific vocation that God calls us to. —Fr. Sean -vocare (Latin): to be called -"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous,...

"'The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field' (Mt. 13:44)...That field, it seems to me, is the scripture, planted with what has become clear in the words and other thoughts of the histories, law and prophets (for the planting of these words in the whole of scripture is great and varied). But the treasure hidden in the field consists of the concealed thoughts (underlying what is manif...

"Jesus told them, 'Fill the jars with water.' So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, 'Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.' So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, 'Everyone serves good wine fi...

Who you are in your life and your knowledge of who you are, touches everything you do. There's two places you can get your identity from. You can either get it from your relationships, or you can get it from what you do....Most of us draw our identity from what we do. Almost every one of us. -Fr. Brian -"Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Upon him I have put my...

"When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem." (Matthew 2:1) -"Caravans of camels shall cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All from Sheba shall come bearing gold and frankincense, and heralding the praises of the LORD." (Isaiah 60:6) -"I was still praying, when the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in vision before, cam...

kerygma - the basic Gospel message The hardest to break through with the Gospel is not people who have big sins, it's people who are apathetic. They just don't need God. Everything is great. -Fr. Brian Churches are meant to say to us that we can walk into the mystery of the Christian life.... If a church is built properly, we walk into it, and the mystery of Christ surrounds us. -Fr. Brian As Chri...

-kerygma - the basic Gospel message -If you don't know the heart of the Gospel and the basic story, you're always going to put the emphasis in the wrong place. -Fr. Brian -The Gospel is not good advice, it is good news. And I think part of the reason people in the culture don't want to hear from us—they are sick and tired of hearing from Christians—and I think part of the reason is because when we...

-"God saw that it was good." (Genesis 1:10) -John Paul II talks about, in the Created Order, there were four good relationships: us with God; us with creation; us with other human beings; us with ourself. Before the Fall, these were perfect, and all of these led to a deeper intimacy with God. -Fr. Daniel -When they looked within, when they looked in the eyes of their beloved, and when they looked...

​Homily #1 -Advent is a new beginning. You might not have woken up today and thought of this, but today for you as a Christian, today is New Year's Day.... Advent is a season of hope, and what Christians do during Advent is they look to the time that Christ returned to make all things as they should be, and then towards the end of Advent, we start looking back at the time that He first broke into...

-"Jesus answered, 'My kingdom does not belong to this world.'" (John 18:36) -kerygma (Greek) - the basic Gospel message -"If I had a $1,000,000" (1992 song) - Or rather $10,000,000, adjusted for inflation and the cost of living in Denver. -Money has everything to do with your relationship with God. -Fr. Brian -"For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." (Matthew 6:21) -What we do...

-"Jesus said to his disciples: 'In those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.'" (Mark 13:24-25) -It's yours. This is your house. You paid to the church to help to renovate the sanctuary. But we do this to build up the Church. Money as you know is not good...

Fr. Brian Larkin preaches about the readings for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time on November 7, 2021. -- -lepta (Greek) — coin (two lepta = 1 quadrans) -quadrans (Latin) — Roman coin (one quadrans = 1/64th of a denarius) -denarius (Latin) — one day's wage for average person in ancient world -"For, remember, you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, redeemed you from there; that is why I c...

Fr. Brian Larkin preaches about the readings for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time on November 7, 2021. -- -lepta (Greek) — coin (two lepta = 1 quadrans) -quadrans (Latin) — Roman coin (one quadrans = 1/64th of a denarius) -denarius (Latin) — one day's wage for average person in ancient world -"For, remember, you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, redeemed you from there; that is why I c...

-You can't love God if you don't fill your mind with thoughts of Him; if you're not attentive to Him. You can't do it. -Fr. Brian -shema (Hebrew) — hear -(Deuteronomy 6:4-5) -The load-bearing wall of your life, is the love of God.... If you don't have that, if you take that wall out, it might stand for a little bit, but nothing else in the end will make sense. This is the centerpiece of everything...

Fr. Witold Kaczmarzyk preaches about the Gospel for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time on October 24, 2021. -- "The blind man replied to him, 'Master, I want to see.' Jesus told him, 'Go your way; your faith has saved you.' Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way." (Mark 10:51-52) -"He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus." (Mark 10:50) Holding on to this cloak w...