Teaching & Preaching: Deacon Matt's homilies & podcasts

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church, Feb. 7, 2021.

Homily preached on the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, by Deacon Matthew Newsome, on the "three mysteries" of the Epiphany.

Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent (B), preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on Dec. 6, 2020.

Homily for the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A, preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on Nov. 15, 2020.

God has made you a caretaker of his vineyard. So what do you know about growing grapes? Deacon Matt offers six practical and essential elements of Christian discipleship in this homily preached on Sunday, Oct 4, 2020, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church (27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, cycle A). 

Homily for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (A), preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church, September 6, 2020.

How the liturgy and sacraments of the Church help us to understand the meaning and purpose of our life. Preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome at  St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020, the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A). 

Homily for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A), preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church on July 5, 2020. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light" (Mt 11:28-30).

Homily by Deacon Matthew Newsome on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (A), preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC on June 7, 2020. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved...

Preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome to a group of catechumens, candidates and their sponsors and godparents the afternoon before the Vigil of Pentecost when they would receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and the Holy Eucharist as fully initiated members of the Catholic Church.

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter, preached at an outdoor Mass at St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on May 3, 2020, with the congregation participating from their vehicles in the parking lot due to coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings.

Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday (2nd Sunday of Easter) preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on April 19, 2020.

Short meditations on the Stations of the Cross by St. John Henry Newman.

The scriptural Stations of the Cross adapted from those prayed by Pope St. John Paul II on Good Friday, 1991.

A homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (A) preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on March 8, 2020. “Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then...

A homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, February 2, 2020.

A homily for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, preached on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC.  “You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Rom 13:11-12).

Homily preached by Deacon Matthew Newsome on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC. Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are t...

A homily for the Solemnity of All Saints preached at the WCU Catholic Campus Ministry chapel on November 1, 2019. "See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed...

A homily for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time (C), preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, October 6, 2019. "I remind you, to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prison...

A homily for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on September 1, 2019. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, 'Give your place to this man,'...

A homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time (C) preached at St. Mary Mother of God Roman Catholic Church in Sylva, NC, on August 4, 2019. 

In this final episode of our "Summer School" podcast series, we look at the modern heresies of Deism and Modernism, the threat they pose to religion, and the effects they still have in the Church and in the world today.

This week we take a look at the origin and the core errors of Protestantism and the Catholic Church's response at the Council of Trent. We talk about Martin Luther, Sole Fide, Sola Scriptura, Indulgences, and the status of Protestants vis a vis the Church today.