Tracks for the Times

November 1, 2024 - Homily by Dcn. Chris Pagel on the Solemnity of All Saints Additional resources: Excerpt from St. Bernard of Clairvaux's sermon on the Solemnity of All Saints

October 26, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten during the Mass for the Men on the Mountain Retreaet at Santiago Retreat Center .

October 27, 2024⁠ - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 22nd Sunday after Trinity "Faith in God the Father Almighty can be put to the test by the experience of evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be absent and incapable of stopping evil. But in the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty power in the voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he conq...

October 20, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 21st Sunday after Trinity

October 13, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 20th Sunday after Trinity for the Patronal Feast Day of St. John Henry Newman Additional resources: The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (Birmingham UK) The Restoration of the Westminster Cathedral The Newman Society in Oxford University Newman Reader by The National Institute for Newman Studies Apologia pro Vita Sua by St. John Henry Cardinal Newma...

October 6, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 19th Sunday after Trinity Additional reference: What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton Catechism of the Catholic Church - Article 7: The Sacrament of Matrimony

September 29, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten for the 18th Sunday after Trinity "Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee." St. Augustine of Hippo ( Confessions , 1,1.5)

September 27, 2024 - A discussion on Romans 6 led by Deacon Chris Pagel at St. John's Men's Holy and Happy Hour. Additional reading on St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: The Two Standards

September 22, 2024 - Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 17th Sunday after Trinity Additional resources mentioned: Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 2549 [Book] Portrait of the Son: A Tale of Love by Josephine Nobisso The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

September 15, 2024 - Homily by Fr. Jack Barker on the 16th Sunday after Trinity

September 8, 2024 - First Homily by Deacon Chris Pagel on the 15th Sunday after Trinity [Movie] The Scarlet and the Black (1983) [Book] The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican by J.P. Gallagher [Poem] The Virgin by William Wordsworth "By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death, Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolis...

September 1, 2024⁠⁠ - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 14th Sunday after Trinity Encyclicals of St. John Paul II: Veritatis Splendor - The Splendor of Truth (1993) Laborem Exercens - On Human Work (1981) Fides et Ratio - On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason (1998)⁠

August 25, 2024⁠ - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 13th Sunday after Trinity The Collect for the 13th Sunday After Trinity Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service: grant, we beseech thee; that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promises... [Book] What’s Wrong...

August 18, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 12th Sunday after Trinity The Post-Communion Prayer in the Ordinariate Form of the Mass Almighty and ever-living God, we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost feed us, in these holy mysteries, with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ; and dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness...

August 11, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 11th Sunday after Trinity Invitatory Psalm (Ps 95) of Morning Prayer of the Daily Office O COME, let us sing unto the LORD; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his ha...

July 28, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 9th Sunday after Trinity [Book] For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

July 21, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 8th Sunday after Trinity Listen to "He shall feed his flock" from Handel's 'Messiah' Read the Invitatory Psalm 95 from Morning Prayer in the Divine Office

July 14, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 7th Sunday after Trinity

July 7, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 6th Sunday after Trinity

June 30, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 5th Sunday after Trinity

June 23, 2024 - Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten on the 4th Sunday after Trinity ( Mk 4:35-41 ) Read the entire Book of Job or start at Chapter 38

June 16, 2024 - Third Sunday after Trinity Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten ( Mk 4:26-34 ⁠ ) Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the ful...

June 9, 2024 - Second Sunday after Trinity Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten ( Mk 3:20-35 ) Jesus came home with his disciples. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, "He is out of his mind." The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By...

June 8, 2024 - Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Homily by Msgr. Carl Reid PA at the Mass for the Conferral of Confirmation Works referenced by Msgr. Reid: [Sonnet] John Donne's La Corona [Hymn] Roland Ford Palmer's Sing of Mary

June 2, 2024 - Corpus Christi Sunday Sermon by Fr. Glenn Baaten ( Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 ) On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?" He sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of...