St. Patrick Catholic Parish Podcast

In this homily given at St Pat's on May 22, 2022, Fr. Mathias explains that when understood properly the universal human experience of attempting to assuage guilt through blame, defensiveness and denial cannot bring the peace that God's forgiveness brings. God's mercy is the only way to peace we all need.  Therefore, we need to understand the negative response we're witnessing...

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“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish” (John 10:28) In this homily given at St. Patrick’s on the 4th Sunday of Easter (May 8, 2022), Fr Graham Keep speaks about Jesus the Good Shepherd desiring that all people be reconciled to the Father in the Spirit. All of humanity is made by and for union with God. Our fulfillment is in heaven, but there is an enemy who wants to rob, steal and...

In this homily given at St Pat's on May 1, 2022, Fr. Mathias preaches about free speech and perennial attempts by those who resist Jesus to try to silence or censor Christian truth. Like the Sanhedrin who ordered the apostles to stop preaching Jesus in Acts of the Apostles, we too find people today who seem to resent the fact that the truth of God revealed to us by Jesus is spreading today. H...

In this homily given at St Pat's on the Easter Vigil (April 16, 2022), Fr. Mathias reflects how the Resurrection scatters the darkness of suffering and death in our own lives.  He uses the Paschal Candle as a symbol of the Light of Christ that each of us are given in baptism and carry in faith.  As Christians we are to keep the flame of faith burning brightly so we can be Jesus' light in...

In this homily given at St Pat's on Easter Sunday, (April 17, 2022), Fr. Mathias preaches about the truth of the Resurrection as it was first preached by St Peter, the first Pope, in the Acts of the Apostles. If Jesus really is risen from the dead, then God is looking for a response to the revelation of his love. As we look at our desire for heaven, we realize that what we're really desi...

In this homily given at St Pat's on Good Friday (April 15, 2022), Fr. Mathias preaches about God's response to evil and suffering in the world is to enter into it to transform it from within. The perfect image of this response is Jesus' death on the Cross. When we suffer in this life, Father challenges us to focus on Jesus on the Cross and invite him to draw near so he can transform...

In this homily given at St Pat's on Passion (Palm Sunday), (April 10, 2022), Fr. Mathias challenges us to "stay with Jesus" as we commemorate his suffering, death and resurrection. As we draw near to Jesus in his suffering, we unite our sufferings to his, which allows him to love us in them. Since only those who suffer with Jesus will be raised with him, our decision to love Jesus n...

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In this homily given at St Pat's, (March 13, 2022), Fr. Mathias explains that because of what Jesus has done for us we belong more to heaven than to this world; we are, in fact, citizens of heaven. This has immediate and concrete implications for how we live in our world today.  Living as citizens of heaven allows us to have clarity on who we should allow to influence us, it helps us to have...

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In this homily given at St Pat's, (February 20, 2022), Fr. Mathias  breaks open Jesus' command to love our enemies and explains why this command to radical love makes us different from the world around us. The reason why God commands us to love those who hate us is that he wants us to be like him.  With a renewed awareness of how God has saved us from us judgment and condemnation when we...

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On Sunday, February 6th, we heard from Bishop Boyea on the upcoming Synod called by Pope Francis, and our role in that process. Afterwards Fr. Mathias explained why it's important for us to reach out to those we know who have fallen away from the faith.  More information about the Synod can be found on the Diocese of Lansing website at: https://www.dioceseoflansing.org/synod

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In this homily given at St Pat's on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Jan 9, 2022), Fr. Mathias offers us two benefits of living out of our baptismal identity of beloved and sons and daughters of God our Father.

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In this fourth homily given on December 19th, 2021, Fr. Miguel closes out our four-part series by examining some of the signs and symbols of the Mass which should help us pray the liturgy.

Third Sunday of Advent  In this third homily of a four-part series given on December 12, 2021, Fr. Mathias preaches on the Mass as a Sacred Banquet in which we are invited to be one with Jesus our Bridegroom in Holy Communion.  Addressing the proper spiritual posture we should have while approaching the Altar, Father goes into detail on how to receive Holy Communion reverently and with great love....

In this second homily of a four-part series given on December 5th 2021, Fr. Miguel takes us deeper into the Mass as Sacrifice and helps us understand how we offer ourselves to the Lord with the sacrifice of Jesus. www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org

What is the Sacred Liturgy and how do we actively participate in the Mass?  In this first homily of a four-part series given on November 28 2021, Fr. Mathias gives an introduction on how to be well disposed to receive what God has for us at Mass, especially in the Liturgy of the Word.

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