Recordings of Sunday homilies, special liturgies, and other messages from the Emmaus Pastorate.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Can you love like that? Grab a cross or a crucifix. Pray for a few moments. Imagine what Jesus experienced that day in Jerusalem and on Calvary. It was all for love. Can you love like that?
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
We are all one event away from being a different person. And on Holy Thursday, two events occurred that established two very important sacraments: Holy Orders and Eucharist. The question is this: Are we different persons because of these? The Eucharist, the sacrament is unity, is the pinnacle of Catholic life, and yet so many people willingly miss Mass! Are you a different person because of the Eucharist? Are you one event away from being a different person, namely Jesus?
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
We're 2,022 years into this Christianity thing. Have we learned ANYTHING?! Lord, have mercy!
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
So where are you in the story? Jesus is meet with the woman caught in adultery, and the Scribes and Pharisees are ready to stone her. What's in your hand? Where are you in the story? More to the point, what's Jesus doing new in your life?
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Fr. John reflects on the Magnificat in light of the war in Ukraine during the ecumenical prayer service for peace held at St. Mary Parish on March 27.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Can you hear the music? The music of God's forgiveness is sweet to our ears! The sad truth is that we don't always hear it. The brothers in today's Gospel couldn't and for their own reasons. But can YOU hear it?
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
No one likes fertilizer. It's stinky, messy, and it's work. We especially don't like fertilizer on us! But that's just what Lent offers us: a 40 day retreat, a 40 day covering in fertilizer so that we can grow as disciples of Christ. Through the scriptures, through prayer, by fasting and charitable works, we grow as children of God. Hopefully we're cultivating ourselves. Hopefully we're striving to live, and live in Christ alone!
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
"Listen to him!" Those are the Father's words in Sunday's Gospel. "Listen to him!" But how exactly do we do that? In all the hustle and bustle, given our human tendency to be lazy and forgetful, and with all the other noise in our lives, how do we listen to God? Fr. John has some tips for us.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Ventricular Septal Defect - a heart defect that involves a hole in the heart. In children and infants, this makes living especially difficult. In adults, the effects are numerous. This physical defect can also happen spiritually though. It happens in stressful times and when we've gotten lazy on our spiritual and religious practices. Our hearts get "holey" when we spend too much time trying to fix ourselves and take on the worlds problems, or when they're thrust on us and we don't ask for help. The real problem comes when we try to treat this illness ourselves. We tend to allow other things besides Christ to fill that hole in our heart when instead we should live in Christ alone.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
What's your perspective? How's your vision? As we approach the season of Lent on Wednesday, how are you seeing the world? Jesus talks about removing the sticks from your own eye before correcting the beams in others' eyes. How are we looking at our neighbors, spouses, friends, and family these days? Hopefully we see with Christ's eyes and bear good fruit, because living in Christ alone is the way to heaven!