Praedicare: Catholic Homily Podcast

What can Bobby Knight teach us about the Second Coming and Advent? An Ironically unprepared homily on spiritual preparation for the First Sunday in Advent 12/1/2019

Homily for Solemnity of Christ the King November 24th, 2019

What can Zacchaeus teach us about the vice of pusillanimity? Daily Homily Tuesday 11/19/2019

What can Christ’s prophecy about the destruction of the Temple tell us about His Second Coming? Homily 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 11/17/2019

How can we know the doctrine of Heaven and the Resurrection is true? What is Heaven? And how can we get there? Homily for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 11/10/2019

Homily for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily for All Saints Day 2019

How can seeing the Pharisees as “heroes,” rather than dismissing them as villains, help us understand the warning against pride in our gospel?

What can the Battle of Amalek and the parable of the persistent widow teach us about Faith and Prayer? Homily for the 29th Sunday in OT year C

What can the 2018 film Free Solo teach us about the Little Way of St. Therese of Lisieux?  A Homily for the Solemnity of St. Therese of Lisieux, our patron saint at the Didde Catholic Campus Center.  

What can Charles Dickens Classic A Christmas Carol teach us about the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Stewardship of time and Christ’s most confusing parable

What new insight can we learn about the Prodigal Son and his disgruntled older brother from the likes of St. Paul and King David? Homily 24th Sunday OT September 15th, 2019. If anyone would like to support the Didde Catholic Campus Center please visit www.diddecenter.org/donate

To follow Christ is to follow Him to the Cross, but it is the Cross which leads to life Eternal. Homily 23rd Sunday in OT C ...If anyone would like to support the Didde Catholic Campus Center please visit www.diddecenter.org/donate

The poisonous sins of ambition and envy find their remedy in the virtue of humility...If anyone would like to support the Didde Catholic Campus Center please visit www.diddecenter.org/donate

What can The Twilight Zone’s depiction of hell teach us about the Narrow Gate leading to everlasting life?

How can the the paganism of the Roman Empire and the dictatorship of relativism in the modern world help us to understand Christ’s puzzling words from our gospel that He came not to bring peace but division? Homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 18th, 2019

Is Faith a blind, irrational acceptance of religious doctrine, as atheists such as Richard Dawkins claim, or are there reasons for believing, for assenting to the truths of the Catholic Faith? A homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time - August 11th, 2019

What can baseball great Pete Rose teach us about the vanity of vanities spoken of in Ecclesiastes and the parable of the rich fool in our gospel?

Jesus says in our Gospel “ask and you shall receive” but sometimes it seems as if our prayers fall on deaf ears. How can we reconcile this experience in light of Christ assurance that he who asks receives and he who seeks finds? Homily 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C July 28th, 2019.

What can Steve Job teach us about the dilemma faced by Martha in St Luke’s Gospel? A Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 7/21/2019

Homily for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 14th, 2019. Our Gospel gives us the Parable of Good Samaritan which is such a well known parable we in the English language call people who help others in need “good Samaritans.” While the moral exhortation to love our neighbor as ourselves (and pretty much everyone counts as our neighbor) is certainly true it would be wrong to consider this moral e...

Homily 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 7, 2019 ...apologies for technical difficulties with these episodes