Catholic Jacks Podcast

March 2, 2022. Ash Wednesday homily of Fr. Matt Lowry about how God doesn't wants our whole heart as we are. We do not need to wait until we are perfect, but by coming to God as we are, He perfect us.

February 20, 2022. 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus' invitation to forgive is meant to be a healing process that opens us up further to His love.

February 13, 2022. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ invites us to lean into Him in difficult times. We find Him on the cross with us, allowing us to blessed by His presence, in good times and in bad.

February 6, 2022. Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry (at the AZ host site for SEEK22 Conference) about how God calls Peter, who is a sinful man, because all God has are sinful men to choose from. Our sin actually draws God close to us, and invites us to depend on Him completely.

January 30, 2022. 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus offers us salvation and awaits our response. Jesus cites two examples of "outsiders" from the Old Testament who respond. We are never beyond Jesus' reach of salvation.

January 23, 2022. 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ announces Himself as the jubilee of God, paying the forgiveness of debts and working to unite His family through His Body, the Church.

January 16, 2022. 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God desires union with us as we are. He desires to come into our imperfect ordinariness with His supernatural grace and do something incredible.

January 2, 2022. Epiphany homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is the fulfillment of what we search for. The search demands something of us, and yet however much we give, God gives more.

December 26, 2021. Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph homily about how God has given us our family as the means to perfect us. We are not to compare ourselves to the Holy Family, but to allow them into our house, so that we can one day be welcomed into the Father's house.

December 25, 2021. Christmas homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about Jesus' lineage reveals that He chooses to enter an imperfect family. Our own families and story are imperfect and that is exactly why Jesus chooses out of love to come and be with us with His peace and healing.

December 19, 2021. 4th Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how women are a blessing from God and Mary is the greatest. Mary brings Jesus with her, whether to Elizabeth or to us.

December 12, 2021. 3rd Sunday in Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how John the Baptist tells us that Jesus is coming with His winnowing fan to sift that which endures and that which will pass away.

December 8, 2021. Immaculate Conception homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God chose Mary as part of His plan of salvation. He also chooses to give us every spiritual blessing and invites us to choose Him and trust as Mary did.

December 5, 2021. 2nd Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God never gives up working on us. He invites us to have the courage to respond to His promptings and allow Him to bring the good work He has begun in us to completion.

November 28, 2021. 1st Sunday of Advent homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Christ is coming. We can begin today and be ready joyfully when Christ comes back.

November 21, 2021. Christ the King Sunday homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is the Truth and in His Kingdom all will be made known. We can choose to make Him King of our lives now and live in reality, as we wait for the fulness of His Kingdom to come one day.

November 14, 2021. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus will come back at a particular time, although we know not when. Knowing that He is coming back moves us to be ready now, just as knowing that our last day could be tomorrow motivates us to live life to the full today.

November 7, 2021. 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God invites us to give Him everything. He who gives us everything invites us to bring all that we have and trust that He will take care of us.

October 31, 2021. 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how loving God first helps put everything else in order. Jesus then teaches us how to love ourselves (as He loves us) so that we can together go and love others.

October 24, 2021. 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus heals Bartimeus, a blind man. Bartimeus expresses his desire to Jesus who wants to listen. After answering Bartimeus' desire, Bartimeus chooses to follow Jesus who is the fulfillment of all desire.

October 17, 2021. 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus wants for us to share in His glory, but reveals that the path to get there comes through drinking the cup that He drinks. When we say yes to the cross, Jesus is right by our side, giving us hope that in heaven we will be right by His side.

October 10, 2021. 28th Sunday in Ordinary time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus desires to show us the path to greater happiness. If we trust God and are open to following the path He leads for us, we will experience the goodness and happiness He created us for.

October 3, 2021. 27 th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God made us out of love and has a plan to redeem us by His grace as He makes us into His saints. Marriage reveals the Trinity and forms us into people of communion, better prepared for union with God in heaven.

September 26, 2021. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how Jesus is serious about sin because it is the one thing that can separate us from Him. We are invited to allow Him to pluck sin out of us and plunge it into the unquenchable fire of His divine love.

September 19, 2021. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time homily by Fr. Matt Lowry about how God is the one who wants to help not only my salvation, but my healing now. By choosing to embrace what I am going through and invite Jesus into it, I can experience His peace no matter what is going on around me.